Mormon Heritage News

Mormon Heritage Association Inc – MHA Tours, is an independent, private entity which offers inspiring tours exploring the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Tour hosts and tour planners are faithful members and diligent researchers/students of this history and are prepared to present the tours in a respectful and agreeable manner conducive to The Church of Jesus Christ’s teachings, attitudes, and direction.

–2024 Tours:  Our current 2024 tour schedule is posted on our TOURS page–join now for inspiring opportunities!  Our US tours include Church history sites from Palmyra to Kirtland (plus TWO tours from Sharon-Palmyra-Kirtland; both options include Niagara Falls USA!), Midwest sites from Missouri to Nauvoo to Winter Quarters (PLUS a tour combining those two tours into the GRAND TOUR!), and our week in Kirtland as designed by its expert Karl Ricks Anderson!  We offer TWO excellent United Kingdom tours:  England & Wales (May 12-23, 2024) which focuses on the early Apostle missionaries throughout England; our other UK tour is Scotland-England-Wales (Sept 4-17, 2024) which features ancestral visits mapped out by our tour guide.  Our 2024 tour to Germany, highlights the “Reformation to Reunification,” and will include sites of the film “The Sound of Music” among other sites in Salzburg, Austria.  Stay tuned for announcements about 2 November 2024 tours:  ALOHA OAHU (LDS Church history–Hawaiian style! and a Laie Temple session) and our ITALY: ART & FAITH (which includes a Rome Temple session and amazing sites throughout Rome, Florence, Venice–and more.
Check out our TOURS page and say tuned for further updates to the 2024 schedule!  Exciting things are coming your way…

 

–ADDRESS CHANGE, effective January 2013:  Mormon Heritage Association moved to a new office location in January, 2013.  Our address is:  2367 W Goldenpointe Way, West Jordan UT 84088.  Same phone number, email address, and web address.  You will receive the same high-quality service and attention from our staff at our new location.  Our staff and dedicated tour hosts remain committed to providing the BEST LDS CHURCH HISTORY TOUR EXPERIENCE for all our tour members.

 

PALMYRA NEW YORK to KIRTLAND OHIO – Tour I

Also known as “The Restoration” tour.  These six-day tours begin with an overnight stay and visit at the lovely Canadian side of Niagara Falls and take the breathtaking Maid of the Mist boat ride up to the Falls.  Most importantly, all tours focus on great Church history sites:  Palmyra (including the peaceful Sacred Grove), Cumorah, Fayette, Harmony, Kirtland, Hiram.  We will learn about the boy Joseph’s experiences with the First Vision and subsequent visits by the Angel Moroni.  Enjoy private time to reverently meditate in the Sacred Grove, visit the Smith’s re-built homes, brother Alvin’s grave, Martin Harris’ farm, and the Grandin Press where the Book of Mormon was first printed!  Enjoy the beautiful grounds of the Palmyra Temple as well as Cumorah.  We’ll visit the Peter Whitmer Sr. farm at Fayette.  At the newly-restored Harmony site, learn about Emma Hale Smith’s family and sacred events on the banks of the Susquehanna River.  In Kirtland, visit the Newell K. Whitney Store where the Word of Wisdom was received, and much, much more.  This is a memorable and special experience.  Make plans to join us!  Click here to visit our New York Tours page for more exciting info!

MISSOURI/NAUVOO/WINTER QUARTERS – Tour II

“Dues they paid and our great, prophetic future!”  We begin in Independence, traveling in a deluxe, air-conditioned bus through Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa covering prophetic and historic sites:  Independence, Richmond, Liberty, Far West, Adam-ondi-Ahman, Quincy, Nauvoo, Carthage, the Iowa Pioneer Trail, ending at Winter Quarters.  You may choose to partake in a marvelous opportunity to perform ordinances in the beautiful Nauvoo Temple.  We will visit the grounds of the Winter Quarters Temple and there is sometimes the option to stay an additional night after the tour ends to attend this temple (depending on the day of the week and the temple’s schedule).  Either way, make plans now to join us!  Click here to visit our Missouri Tours page for more detailed info!

GRAND TOUR – Tour IIICombined Palmyra to Kirtland & Missouri/Nauvoo/Winter Quarters

The total experience!  Twelve-day tour combining Tours I and II as described above with a flight mid-tour from Cleveland (near Kirtland) to Kansas City (near Independence).  This format is attractive to those who can be gone from home for this amount of time.  Doing both at once saves a full day in transit and hundreds in airline costs!  Click here for more Grand Tour details.

KIRTLAND WEEK WITH KARL ANDERSON

Rare opportunity to spend an inspiring week in Kirtland with the exceptional Karl Ricks Anderson.  Enjoyable in-depth study of Joseph Smith, and Doctrine & Covenants revelations received in the Kirtland area with this fabulous author, lecturer, patriarch.   Karl Anderson is the world’s greatest authority on Kirtland and its amazing history and yet-to-be fulfilled future.  General authorities call upon him to be their personal guide whenever they are in town.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity!    Click here to learn more.

SHARON VERMONT to PALMYRA NY to KIRTLAND OHIO with KARL RICKS ANDERSON

We are rightly pleased to again offer TWO opportunities to tour these memorable sites with the incredible Karl Ricks Anderson – September and October tour dates have been announced.  An Institute instructor/director, bishop, stake president, area authority, patriarch, researcher, author and historian, Brother Anderson is highly qualified to present this important history in a delightful and thorough manner.  We’ll begin in Sharon Vermont where the prophet Joseph Smith was born to a faithful, loving family.  Visit the humble cabin site, the magnificent monument dedicated to the prophet of the restoration, and family sites in the immediate vicinity.  Then on to beautiful upstate New York to visit several very important sites of the early Saints (South Bainbridge, Colesville, Harmony) and where the restoration began with Joseph’s vision in Palmyra where we will visit key sites such as the Sacred Grove, the Smith cabin & frame home as well as Cumorah.  Optional Palmyra Temple session.  Then on to Kirtland sites for two and a half days learning of the magnificent events that took place there.  Afternoon visit of Niagara Falls USA; Palmyra Temple Session; Kirtland Temple tour – amazing experience!   Click here for more info.

TREK to ZION – Winter Quarters to Salt Lake

NEXT DATE TO BE OFFERED WILL BE FOR 2025.  Ride in comfort following the Mormon Trail to the Salt Lake Valley.  Be inspired by compelling stories of great faith and courage of the early Saints who took this journey on foot and by wagon to fulfill their dream of building Zion and living in peace in the Rocky Mountains.  This tour is created and hosted by a team of veteran tour guides and expert historians who will weave stories from the journals of those who trekked across this arduous terrain in a wide variety of circumstances and conditions.  This is a rare opportunity generally only experienced by the youth of the Church–now it is YOUR turn to experience these sites and the remarkable tales of remarkable pioneers who exhibited great faith in every footstep!  Click here for more info. Click here to learn more.

HAWAII: Aloha Oahu!

NEXT DATE TO BE OFFERED WILL BE FOR 2025.  The perfect vacation of sunny & spiritual, serene & sacred, stunning & Spirit-filled!  Learn about Paradise in Paradise on our one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-forgotten Aloha Oahu tour!  Stay 7 nights at a lovely hotel on the North Shore, just steps away from the beach and other popular local attractions including the Polynesian Cultural Center, BYU-Hawaii, and Laie Temple.  We’ll explore the island of Oahu with its unique features, sites, and stories and of course include time for sunset walks on the beach, swimming in the ocean (and/or pool), and strolling the boardwalk of Waikiki.  Click here for details:  http://<strong><a href=”https://www.mormonheritage.com/lds-tours-to-hawaii-aloha-oahu/” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Tour HA01</a></strong>

ENGLAND & WALES, EARLY BRITISH ISLES CHURCH HISTORY

Experience a fabulous tour to England honoring the incredible successes of the missions of the early Apostles at sites such as the Benbow Farm.  Unique opportunity to enjoy the crucial early Church history in England and the great harvest that took place there.  Also enjoy England’s own history while visiting elegant castles, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, etc.  Spend a day in Wales with wonderful locals in Merthyr Tydfil!  Exceptionally knowledgeable historians and veteran tour guides Bill & Janet Rowley have created and will host this unique tour.   Click here to learn more.

SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, & WALES – Ancestral History & Church History 

Exclusive tour found nowhere else!  Enjoy Welsh & Scottish LDS & family history sites with the man who has practically single-handedly kept it alive and helped many descendants discover and explore their own ancestors’ stories, sites, and history.  Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling Castle, Preston, Liverpool, Llandudno, Aberystwhyth, Llanelli, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil–and so much more!  This tour was originally created by Dr Ron Dennis who has hand-picked his successor tour guide – Grant Vaughn (who has studied under Dr Dennis) and adds his own expertise of Welsh studies and mapping genius to help find your ancestral places.  We like to guarantee that everyone who had ancestry from Wales will have an opportunity to visit at least one ancestor site (probably more!).  Join us!   Click here to learn more.

AWESOME ISRAEL!

ISRAEL TOURS CURRENTLY ON HOLD.  Tour the ancient Holy Land.  Discover its inspiring past and glorious future.  Experience meaningful scriptures where they happened:  Elijah’s duel with the Priests of Baal on the top of Mt Carmel, the Sermon on the Mount of Beatitudes, miracles of the Savior on the Sea of Galilee and at Capernaum; also on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem.  Bear testimony of the Savior at the Garden Tomb.  Sites visited:  Joppa, Netanya, Caesarea, Haifa, Mt Carmel, Armageddon, Megiddo, Nazareth, Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Chorazin, Tabgha, Mt of Beatitudes, Caesarea Philippi, Tel Dan, Jordan River, Jericho, Dead Sea, Qumran, Masada, Bethany, Bethlehem, Jerusalem.  You’ll never get over it!  
JORDAN/Petra pre-tour options available.
    Click here to learn more.

ITALY:  Art & Faith

Join with an amazing art/history and local coordinators as we discover Italy’s inspiring art wrapped in faith.  Experience unique and meaningful understandings of the spirit of early Christian art, artists, culture, and history to help these sites come alive through fascinating presentations.  Inspiring visit at the Rome Temple and Visitor’s Center with optional sessions available.  Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Tuscany, Pisa, Venice, Carrara marble quarries, Cinque Terre, & more!  Click here to learn more. 

JOURNEYS OF PAUL – Rome & Mediterranean Cruise

WHEN CRUISING BECOMES A GOOD IDEA AGAIN, join us for this amazing adventure exploring sites of the Apostle Paul’s missionary travels.  Immerse yourself in the sites and spirit of early Christian history while visiting Italy and Greece.  Feel pampered as we sail the bluest of blue seas, the Mediterranean Sea.  Explore the cities to which Paul wrote the books of Romans and Corinthians.  Enjoy 4 days/3 nights in exotic Rome, capital of the ancient Roman Empire.  Travel with knowledgeable and professional MHA and local site guides who provide inspiring teaching, uplifting fellowship, and take care of all the details.  Discover ancient ruins, fascinating history, picturesque landscapes, and cultural richness.  LDS Rome Temple and Visitor’s Center, included!  (Sessions available.)  Click here for details:  Journeys of Paul

GERMANY:  Reformation to Reunification

Explore incredible history throughout Germany with expert tour guide Mike Vielstich – see how the incredible events and people of the days of the Reformation paved with way for the Restoration!  15-day tour discovering crucial history affecting every person in the world!  Examine the apostasy, how it affected Europe, and created a need for the reformation movement to commence.  See the places where key Reformation events happened!  Learn of early Church history in Germany to understand life for early converts in communist East Germany prior to the reunification of their beloved country.  Participate in an inspiring session at the Freiberg Temple, the only temple to be built in a Soviet-run country.  Take a leisurely afternoon cruise on the winding Rhine River with magnificent views of villages.  Tour lavish palaces and famous castles.  Enjoy lush vitas from the spectacular Bavarian Alps to the metropolitan capital of Berlin.  We have even added in a visit to Salzburg featuring sites from “The Sound of Music!”  September 2024 travel now available!  Click here to learn more. 

JAPAN:  Tokyo Temple, LDS History, Japanese Sites & Culture, Cherry Blossoms

Now is the perfect time to visit, or re-visit, this unique land as we celebrate the re-opening of the country and the Tokyo Japan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and take in the cultural highlights of this wonderful land! Our tour will arrive in perfect Spring time to witness the famous Japanese cherry blossoms in “mankai” (full bloom). The Tokyo Japan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated by President Spencer W. Kimball in October 1980 as the 18th operating temple in the church and the first temple in Asia. President Kimball called the dedication of the Tokyo Temple “the most significant and important event in the history of Asia.” After five years of its being closed for major renovations, it has now re-opened and was re-dedicated this past July by President Eyring and now, just since October 2022, Japan is finally open for tourism since Covid!  Spring 2024 tour.

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