Hill Cumorah | Sacred Grove | Joseph Smiths Home | LDS Church History

This was such a special trip! We visited "The Hill Cumorah" and got to walk all the way to the top! The Hill Cumorah is a significant place because that is where Moroni buried the Gold plates (an ancient record of his people) in roughly 421AD. In 1823, the now "Angel Moroni" revealed to Joseph Smith the location where the ancient record was buried, and permitted him to retrieve them, so they could be translated into what today we refer to as "The Book of Mormon". We also took a tour through the family of home of Joseph Smith, the home where he was living when the angel Moroni appeared to him. Just behind his family home is the trail that leads to the "Sacred Grove".
In 1820, after sincerely pondering which of the many churches in his town he should join, a young Joseph ( only 14 years old at the time), went into the grove to pray and ask God what he should do. It was at this time, that Christ, and God the Father, two separate personages, appeared to Joseph Smith. They advised Joseph that although well intentioned, none of the churches on the Earth had a fullness of Gods gospel. They had fragments, but none of them professed the whole truth. He was instructed not to join any of the churches. Three years passed away before he would receive another holy visitation, during which time he had confided in his Baptist pastor about his vision. The Pastor scorned him and spread nasty rumor's throughout the whole town, which lead to much ridicule and persecution of Joseph and his family.

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