Elder and Sister Huffaker were with us on the tour.They are one of four couples currently serving as Facilities Management missionaries.
Elder & Sister Picanco are another couple who is serving with us as FM missionaries. They also live upstairs from us in the Martin Harris Homestead.
This is the "apostle" tree as Bob calls it. It is an ironwood tree estimated at over 300 years old. It would have been in the grove when the boy Joseph Smith Jr. went here to pray. Origionally it had 12 limbs which all reached upwards!
This is Sister Parkerson and Elder Parkerson. We are standing next to one of the only SIX remaining "witness Trees". There are only six trees left in the grove which are 200 years old or older. They would have been here when Joseph came to the grove to pray and receive the visit from God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
This is one of several "adversity Trees". Bob so named them due to the fact that they have endured major traumatic events and continue to live on. The one below had its whole trunk ripped off (probably from a storm) following which two limbs grew out and then reattached themselves, braced the remaining tree and continued to grow up. A rarity for sure.
It was an exceptional morning. A very Spiritual time. Bob, by the way is not a member of the church. he claims that you don't have to be a member to know that this is a special, sacred place. He knows that God and Jesus appeared to the boy Joseph. He has had many sacred experiences here himself. We took dozens of pictures but can only put up a few here.
Elder & Sister Picanco are another couple who is serving with us as FM missionaries. They also live upstairs from us in the Martin Harris Homestead.
This is the "apostle" tree as Bob calls it. It is an ironwood tree estimated at over 300 years old. It would have been in the grove when the boy Joseph Smith Jr. went here to pray. Origionally it had 12 limbs which all reached upwards!
This is Sister Parkerson and Elder Parkerson. We are standing next to one of the only SIX remaining "witness Trees". There are only six trees left in the grove which are 200 years old or older. They would have been here when Joseph came to the grove to pray and receive the visit from God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
This is one of several "adversity Trees". Bob so named them due to the fact that they have endured major traumatic events and continue to live on. The one below had its whole trunk ripped off (probably from a storm) following which two limbs grew out and then reattached themselves, braced the remaining tree and continued to grow up. A rarity for sure.
It was an exceptional morning. A very Spiritual time. Bob, by the way is not a member of the church. he claims that you don't have to be a member to know that this is a special, sacred place. He knows that God and Jesus appeared to the boy Joseph. He has had many sacred experiences here himself. We took dozens of pictures but can only put up a few here.
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