Let's Start the New Year Right!

Well, where to start?  Let's go back to the end of September.  As you know, when the Prophet Joseph Smith was working on the translation, they were in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.  This was such a great time in the history of the church, and with President Schaefermeyer having been a seminary teacher, he though it would be great to hold some zone conferences there.  So, we had 3 days of conferences (for the 6 zones) and rented buses and took all of the missionaries there.

Here is the sign identifying the site, and this statue of John the Baptist with Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.

Some local people like to get baptized right here

where Joseph and Olliver were.

This was a really lovely place to visit.  This grove of trees was where the Hale family had their home.

The Relief Society provided sack lunches for us.

Of course, the rains came in the afternoon, so we had a big tent, like the revival tents in Joseph's day, to eat under and then to receive some instruction in.