first week of March

This week,we moved from Palmyra to the village of Brockport, a "Victorian Village" along the Erie Canal.

Elder Ellis is having fun cleaning out the frige of the Palmyra apartment.

This is the view from our "new" Brockport apartment bedroom window. Most of the apartments and homes in this part of New York are fairly old. But we like our new place, which has two stories, two bedrooms, a roomy living room and dining area, and  a dishwasher and disposal (which our other place didn't have). It's lots bigger than our previous basement apartment.

The spiritual  highlight of the week was a zone leader training meeting which we helped out with (helped with the luncheon ).  After lunch, President Christianson invited Elder Ellis and I to join them all on a hike on the hill Cumorah.

(The two sister missionaries are the site trainers, an equivalent of zone leaders.)

Some of the oldest trees in the state of New York are on this part of the hill -- 300 to 400 years old.

We pondered the sacred events that took place upon this hill, where 1,600 years ago Moroni buried ancient scriptures which testify of Jesus Christ and contain the fulness of his Gospel. Through the power of God, they were found and translated and called "The Book of Mormon". Before Moroni sealed the records and deposited them in the earth, he gave a promise (Moroni 10:4&5)

"And when ye shall recieve these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."