Priesthood Restoration Site, June 2016

So, I realized that I was only recording our adventures in foreign lands on this site. That’s not fair! Our family has also had some great adventures in the USA as well, so I am going back and recording them too.

In June of 2016, the Stair side of our family decided to go on a quest to visit some family history sites and the Priesthood Restoration site in Pennsylvania. Not everyone could attend though. We missed Ben, Ed, Scarlet, and Mike. They all had to work.

We visited plenty of headstones.

Aunt Carol joined us part of our trip.

The grandkids gathering to hear Grandpa’s stories.

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Cousins everywhere!

Three sisters trying to take a selfie after church.

Siblings

Getting ready for church at the crummiest hotel.

A lot of little boys in one car and a delicious Burger King meal later.

After visiting family and checking out all the places where our family had lived over the years, we headed to the Priesthood Restoration site in Northern Pennsylvania where Moses appeared to Joseph Smith and passed in the keys to the Aaronic Priesthood.

The Visitors’ Center at the site.

Interactive exhibits inside the Visitors’ Center.

As many cousins as I could grab standing between the statues of Joseph Smith receiving both Priesthoods.

The Visitors’ Center was full of information in easily understandable and enjoyable exhibits and surrounded by beautiful woods with trails.

One of the trails leads you under the highway to the other side where you can experience Emma Smith’s parent’s (the Hales) home and a restored version of the small home that Joseph and Emma Smith built while living on her parent’s land. A pair of Sister missionaries will lead you on a tour.

Outside the Hales’ home.

Cousins listening to the Sister missionaries leading the tour.

Moms, Dads, and Grandparents taking in the formal dining room.

Mort trying to lift the “Golden Plates” by himslef.

Ruby posing for me outside the Hales’ home.

The whole group trying to fit into the room where people would meet to hear about the church.

If you are up for a little longer walk, you can even visit the peaceful site where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdrey baptized each other in the Susquehanna River.

Baptized in nature’s beauty.

And of course, if you traveling with a whole bunch of little boys, you won’t be able to resist playing there too.