Midwest Church History Trip - Part 3

My travel buddies in beautiful Adam-ondi-ahman.

Adam-ondi-ahman

This place is absolutely beautiful. We made sure to get up early and try to be out and about before it got really hot. Adam-ondi-ahman is a meeting place revealed to Joseph Smith where Jesus will appear and a huge sacrament meeting will be held. The land is beautiful and mostly rented out to farmers. In recorded revelations, Joseph Smith found the remains of an old Nephite Altar as well revealed that this is where Adam and Eve built their altar to God after they were cast out of the garden. There are a few old couple missionaries that oversee this land. Their mission president is the Prophet, President Monson. Kinda cool..

The boys sitting on 'preacher rock.' Joseph Smith taught from this rock.

The huge open sky and beautiful green farmland! Places like this make me love the Midwest.

Haun's Mill

There isn't much on this little site. Just a little marker and a plaque. However, this land used to be a small settlement of saints that were attacked by a mob. A lot of the woman and children were able to hide, however, the men and a lot of the boys were shot and killed. We spent a few minutes here, read a little journal excerpt that told the story, skipped a few rocks in the stream, and caught a frog! 

Farwest

This was another settlement of Saints in Missouri, the biggest at the time. Here there is a dedicated temple site and stones to mark each corner. 

One of the four corner stones

The Temple site

Liberty Jail

The last stop this day was Liberty Jail. In this jail, Joseph Smith was wrongly accused and held here in the winter. The original floor of the jail is still preserved and the Church built a replica jail on top. They have a really neat presentation and a few artifacts. 

This is one of the original extermination orders that the State of Missouri filed against the Mormons.

Later, the order was redacted (like in the 1970s), and an apology was to the Church.

This day was spent fully in Missouri. A lot of questions were cleared up and facts straightened out. There is a lot of sacred land and temples yet to be built in this state! The state of Missouri was not the best of times for the early saints, but seems to have special promises still attached to it.