Palmyra & The Hill Cumorah Pageant

One of the most awesome things about living in Hershey is its proximity to so many AMAZING things!  On our list was Palmyra & The Hill Cumorah Pageant.  The boys and I recently finished reading the Book of Mormon & started reading D&C, so I thought it would be even more appropriate and fun to go visit the church history sites and see some of our favorite stories from the Book of Mormon acted out.  So we loaded up the car & dad (its kinda a big deal when Chris can have an entire weekend off...no rounding included) and drove the 5ish hours to Palmyra, NY.  

On our way, we stopped at the Martin Harris Farm where some of the translation of the Book of Mormon was done.

  Oh man these silly boys.  Its hard being young and cooped up in the car all day!

 We then headed to Palmyra for some pizza and let the kids run wild in the Hill Cumorah pageant Stadium.  Two hours before the show began, characters from the show came out and walked among the crowd.  We stopped MANY of them and got our pictures taken.  Tracen was a little too busy playing frisbee to join in this fun, but Logan loved it!

 Some Nephite warriors.  Logan was stoked to wear his hat!

 We found Lehi!  How cool is that?

   The opening scene!  Holy smokes!  It was so fun and so amazing.  We want to go again with Grandpa Steve, summer 2015!

Sunday we headed to church, then went and visited the Smith Farm & the Sacred Grove

 Inside the Sacred Grove

While we were in the sacred grove, we found a quiet place and talked to the boys and the First Vision.  Then sweet Logan said a prayer for our family.  It was a sweet moment.

 

 

 Finally we went to the Palmyra Temple.  It is a small temple designed exactly like Reno's!  We were told that its the only temple where inside the Celestial Room you can see out to the Sacred Grove (but you can't see in).  How amazing would that be! 

 It was such an amazing weekend!  And as is usual...Logan conked out!