Visiting the Whitmer Farm and Harmony

Saturday, we headed back home. It was an extremely rainy day. Luckily, we had plenty of umbrellas! On our way, we stopped at the Peter Whitmer farm in Waterloo, New York which served as the location for many important events in the early days our church. Much of the Book of Mormon was translated there, the Three Witnesses were shown the plates in a wooded area on the Whitmer Farm, and the Whitmer home was the location of the organization of the Church. We also stopped in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania (formerly known as Harmony.) In Harmony, several sections of the Doctrine and Covenants were received and much of the Book of Mormon was translated. There we visited the Priesthood Restoration Site where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery received the priesthood from John the Baptist. We also braved the enormous potholes full of water to go to the river where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were baptized.

The path to the Susquehanna River (no one remembered to bring a camera to the actual river)

Here's one of the many "potholes" full of water we had to drive through

on our way to the river path.

All of us entering the Whitmer Home

The sister missionaries saying goodbye after a visit to the home where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized.