Vacation Part 2

Today we took a tour of the Smith farm. This is the Smith log house.

Clint and Corgin are enjoying the parlor of the Smith log house.

This is the bedroom where Joseph and his five brothers slept, and the same room where the angel Moroni appeared to Joseph three times in one night. We hadn't thought about the other boys being in the room when this happened, but they probably were there.

From the Smith Farm, the Palmyra temple is just across the street. President Hinckley had them leave one of the windows in the temple clear so that the Sacred Grove could be seen from inside it. We are going there tomorrow.

This is the framed home on the Smith Farm. Alvin, Joseph's older brother, started building it for the family, but died before it was finished. The house is 85% of the original. It is quite nice inside.

This is the kitchen in the framed home. It even had a pantry.

This is the fireplace in the parlor of the framed house. Joseph Smith had to hide the gold plates under the bricks here. There were a few other places where he had to keep them hidden from the mobs that came looking for them.

This is the Cooper Shop. A cooper is one who makes barrels, and this is where the Smiths were able to do that.

Here is a barrel in the Cooper shop. When the Smith's left Joseph and Emma hid the plates in the bottom of a barrel of beans.One time Joseph had to hide the gold plates in the floorboards of the Cooper shop.

Joseph had hidden the plates in the floorboards and then was warned that he needed to move them. He moved them to the rafters of the Cooper shop. The mob came with a diviner who claimed to know where the plates were. The mob went to the Cooper shop and started tearing up the floorboards. They tore the whole place apart, but never looked up where the plates were hiding.

We also saw the threshing barn. I didn't want to bore you all with too many pictures so I didn't post any.

Here is another picture of Corgin in the Sacred Grove. We spent some time walking in it after the tour of the Smith Farm.

This is the Hill Cumorah. The monument is up on the left with the gold angel Moroni. Tess told us that we needed to hike up it to appreciate it, so we hiked down. It's steeper than it looks!

Here we are at the top by the monument. Corgin was being a little pill, so he sat down and played in the rocks for the picture. He loved being outside though.

This is by the big monument. Each side had a different picture of something that happened that pertained to the gold plates. The one you can see is of the angel Moroni showing the plates to the three witnesses.

This is the giant Book of Mormon by the entry to the Hill Cumorah visitor center. We thought it was pretty cool.