In Palmyra, we next visited the Hill Cumorah. In my head, I always imagined it right next to Joseph Smith's home. But it wasn't. It was a good couple miles distance away. That means, Joseph had to walk 2 or 3 miles just to get there. I'm sure back then, since the people had to walk most places anyway, he was familiar with the land even a couple miles away. But even when he received the golden plates and had to work his way several miles home with his persecutors following him, it must have been a very long trek.
The Hill Cumorah is a really nice size hill surrounded by smaller hills and flat lands. It looks so huge and magnificent since they have cleared the trees on the front side for the pageant that happens every summer. The kids started at the bottom of the steep hill and ran straight up the hill to the very tip top! At the top is the Angel Moroni monument reminding us that the Angel Moroni was here many years ago and that this was the place where the golden plates were found in the earth. Someday we will have to come back and see the Hill Cumorah Pageant with the kids.
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