Elder & Sister Hamblin

On Sunday, June 29,2003 President Uchtdorf of the First Presidency along with his wife and two grandsons visited our Historic Sites. We were able to shake hands with him and speak with him briefly. He remembered his visit with Kevin's family when he was their visiting Authority at the Eureka Stake Conference in Feb. this year. Donna was able to have her picture taken with his family outside the frame home of the Joseph Smith Sr. Farm.

Inside the Welcome Center with the First Vision Statue.

Us at the Welcome Center for the Sacred Grove.

The Christus, Hill Cumorah Visitor's Center.

Young Sister Missionaries, Historic Sites

Sister Rogerson is having fun dancing & singing in the rain with her umbrella after finishing a tour at the Smith Family Farm.

Sisters: Call, Porter, Saxon, and Pendleton together at the Grandin Publishing Bldg. where the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon were published.

Witness Tree 220 yrs. old

We took a tour with the caretaker of the Sacred Grove yesterday -- it took 3 hours! We learned a lot and had a wonderful experience. This is one of the trees that is about 220 yrs. old, so they call it a Witness Tree. The Grove is so beautiful right now and it's a cool, refreshing and spiritual experience to walk through whenever desire to do so.

Our Apartment!

I still don't know how to title all the pictures, you can guess that the house pictures are of our mission apartment. We live in the left side of this house. It is the only house that is between the Palmyra Temple and the Smith Family Farm/and Sacred Grove.

We are so privileged to be here and feel all this area is very sacred ground. We love to tell people about the restoration of the Church and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

Mission Pics

Moroni Statue;  and "Moroni" the cat who guards it.  The Sister Missionaries feed the cat, they say he is really picky, but he stays there by the monument all the time and is friendly to everyone who comes.

NY State Park falls.

Mission sites

The Moroni Monument
atop the Hill Cumorah.

Beginning

The Sacred Grove

A Sacred Place

Palmyra, New York


We're trying this Blog thing and hope to be able to post some pictures and some things about our mission and our family.