It took about 45 minutes to an hour to drive from Rochester to Palmyra. We stayed at the Palmyra Inn, but had to wait a few hours before we could check in, so we went and got lunch and checked out the Grandin Printing Press where the first copies of the Book of Mormon were printed. The picture below is a representation of the press used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon.
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| Grandin Printing Press |
5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon were printed over a 23 month period here.
We then went to the Hill Cumorah. It is so surreal to actually be visiting these locations that up until now I've only heard and read about. It's crazy to think that I was walking around the hill where Moroni physically handled and buried the Gold Plates and where Joseph uncovered them and carried them back to his home after being chased and attacked along the way. Crazy.
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| Monument at the Hill Cumorah |
We finished the day off with a night session at the Palmyra Temple. It's a small temple that doesn't rent clothes, so we had to bring our own. It's perched up on a hill that overlooks the Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove across the highway. There is a window in the lobby of the temple that looks out to the Sacred Grove which is unique because there aren't many temples that have windows that you can see through to the outside, but Gordon B. Hinckley wanted people to be able to look out at the the most sacred place while being inside the most sacred place. Kind of a cool story our tour guide told us during our Smith Farm tour.
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| Palmyra Temple (at night) |
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