The Sacred Grove

Earlier this year Braden had a lesson in Primary about the first vision. He was so excited to tell me all about Joseph Smith and how he prayed to know what church was true. I could see the budding of his testimony as he told me of the answer that Joseph Smith received by seeing God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. I remember taking the time to talk to him about all that he had learned that day and even showed him some pictures of when I went to the Sacred Grove when he was still inside my tummy. I told him that the Sacred Grove wasn't too far from our house and ever since he has been begging to go. We decided to take a small detour on our journey home from Niagara Falls to visit.

We stopped at the Temple first and walked around it.

And then we headed over to the Smith Farm. Before we entered the Grove we stopped at the log home.

Then we went into the Sacred Grove. I love the feeling in there. I think Kameron put it best when he described the feeling as a big hug from our Heavenly Father.

We hadn't gone very far into the trees when Braden let go of Kam's hand and said that he needed to do something really quick. Right there he knelt down and said a prayer to his Heavenly Father.

It was really precious. I asked him what he said when he prayed and he told me that he asked Heavenly Father to help him to always obey his mom and dad. 

I know that he is young but I hope that he will always remember the feeling he felt while in this sacred place.

We didn't have much time to see anything else while in Palmyra but before leaving we did drive past the Martin Harris Farm; something we didn't do the last time we were here.