Mormon Heritage Association
TOUR GT04N - Palmyra to Kirtland
| Dates/Days |
Departs Monday, June 9, scheduled to return to Salt Lake City
Saturday, June 14. 6 great days, 5 nights. |
| Summary |
Tour begins at awesome Niagara
Falls Canada, including an amazing Maid of the Mist boat ride right up to
the falls from below. Then experience some of the most important
spiritual sites in the history of this world. Including Mendon, Palmyra and the
Sacred Grove and Smith log home where the Moroni visits took place and Smith
frame home, the grave of Alvin Smith in the Palmyra Cemetery, the Martin
Harris Farm, and Hill Cumorah. Also, Fayette where the Church was organized and the Three
Witnesses of the Book of Mormon saw the plates from which it was translated, saw the Angel Moroni,
heard the voice of God witness the translation was
true. Then, Harmony Pennsylvania where most of the Book of
Mormon was translated, where Joseph met and fell in love with and eventually
eloped from with Emma. Then we go down to
the Susquehanna River where John the Baptist restored the Aaronic priesthood and near where Peter, James, and John appeared
and restored
the higher Priesthood! Then a rest stop at Mark Twain's Elmira
College on the way to Kirtland. In Kirtland, spend two
unforgettable, incredible days in and around the area.
More revelations and visions took place there than all other church history
sites combined! The Kirtland Temple alone is worth the whole
trip. But there is also the Newell K. Whitney Store &
School of the Prophets, restored Whitney home,
Pioneer water-driven saw mill,
Fairport Harbor on Lake Erie, the home of siblings Eliza R. and Lorenzo Snow, and the John Johnson farm
where D&C 76 was given in the presence of a room full of people! You
will never forget it! |
| Motels |
Quite nice!
Good places to sleep, just right for our short-time needs at the motels. Always clean and
comfortable.
Scheduled: Lodge Inn & Suites, Holiday Inn, Best Western, and Comfort Inn.
Indoor swimming pool every night.
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| Food |
Deluxe continental
breakfasts at all motels, tasty sack lunches on the bus as we travel in
comfort from site to site (saves over an hour each day allowing time to see
more in fewer days!), and wonderful buffets for dinners.
Great food is plentiful and so have been the compliments on past tours! |
| Palmyra Temple |
The Lord's purposes cannot
be frustrated for long. The beautiful Palmyra Temple is built on the
Smith farm property and overlooks the Sacred Grove! How wonderful that
without any violence or bloodshed, 168 years from the time the Smiths had
to flee Palmyra, this wonderful temple could be built and welcomed on the
same property the Smith family loved and lost. We'll gather there for
a cherished group photo, available at optional, minimal cost. |
| Special features |
Niagara Falls stay,
including Maid of the Mist exciting boat ride up to the Falls. Your
shoes will get wet, but a raincoat is provided! Then we pick up sack
lunches at a local shop, eat them on the bus while traveling down the scenic
Niagara River to a wonderful and fun stop in the artsy, shopping town of
Niagara-on-the-Lake. Two inspiring lectures by Karl R. Anderson (author, patriarch, wonderful person!) about the building of the Kirtland Temple and the glorious events that took place therein. Private tour of the Kirtland Temple. Each day starts with a hymn and a prayer and ends the same way. Presentations on the bus while traveling between the sites are inspiring and informative. As much as practical, sites are visited in historical order to make this complex history easier to understand and remember. Sam & Jana Fowers, a very knowledgeable and delightful couple with years of faithful church service have once again graciously consented to guide this wonderful tour to these important sites. They will guide you through these unforgettable experiences as you create memories that will last forever. |
At the sites listed below, carefully-prepared vignettes and historical accounts are given of the faith promoting events that took place. Tour members are invited to read scriptures and words of those who were there, at some of the sites.
| Mendon NY | Brigham Young, his father, and all ten living brothers and sisters joined the Church here in 1833. So did their spouses. All went through immense hardships as a result. None ever apostatized. Heber C. Kimball joined, too. Heber’s father is buried here, as is Brigham Young's first wife, Miriam Works Young. This is a wonderful, wonderful stop. Twelve miles from Palmyra. |
| Palmyra NY | Smith family farm and log home where Moroni's visits took place. Sacred Grove (including private meditation time), Hill Cumorah, Grandin Press, Martin Harris Farm, Palmyra Cemetery, group photo at the Palmyra Temple. This is an absolutely unforgettable day! |
| Fayette NY | Peter Whitmer Farm where the Church was organized. Site of the visions to the three witnesses. Many D&C sections received here. |
| Harmony PA | Home of Emma’s family. Book of Mormon translated here except for a few pages. Susquehanna River and the restoration of the Priesthood. Temple-like atmosphere at the Susquehanna River. |
| Elmira NY | Rest stop en route to Kirtland. Mark Twain wrote nearly all of his works here. We visit his grave. Also, grave of very noble runaway slave, John W. Jones. |
| Kirtland OH | Newell K. Whitney Store (School of the Prophets; Word of Wisdom received here with several other D&C sections). Also brand-new spectacular Kirtland Visitors Center, the newly-restored John Johnson Inn, sawmill, schoolhouse, and ashery. Also a visit to the Isaac Morley Farm (United Order revealed and practiced here) with two very special lectures by Karl Ricks Anderson. After-hours private tour of the Kirtland Temple. |
| Fairport Harbor OH |
On Lake Erie, just 12 miles from Kirtland. Here saints arrived and departed from points east, including nearly all missionaries going to and from Europe. |
| Hiram OH | John Johnson Farm. Joseph Smith lived here for a year while producing the “Inspired Translation” of the Bible. He was also tarred and feathered here. Many sections of the D&C received including the great 76th three degrees of glory. |
We hope you can join us for this extraordinary tour and experience, in a most memorable way, where the Book of Mormon came forth, where many of our early prophets began their ministry, and where the Church, itself, began. This is truly a Holy Land of North America.
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