Saturday Morning -
We hit the rest of the sites we weren't able to get to on Friday which included the Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove. Below is a picture of the famous hearth where Joseph hid the plates underneath the bricks for a time. This is actually at the frame house just down the road that Alvin began building before he died. I always thought it was at Father Smith's home.
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| Gold Plates hiding spot |
The two pictures below are from the Sacred Grove. It was definitely a special place. I thought we knew the exact spot where Joseph had the first vision. I was wrong. Maybe some people do know the exact spot, but it isn't marked or anything. There are lots of trails and benches along the way that go throughout the grove of trees that you could spend about an hour wandering all around inside. Even though the exact location where it happened may not be known, it was still amazing to walk around in that grove and to think that some of those trees, aka "witness trees", were around when the first vision happened and "witnessed" that sacred event.
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| The sunlight was shining through at just the right angle to create sort of a heavenly scene |
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| Sacred Grove. I wasn't sure what kind of expression to have...a big smile just seemed a little out of place :) |
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