Day 6 August 15, 2011

This day was really sad. It was the last day we would be staying in Rochester. Our plan was to get back to Buffalo by 9:00pm so that we could get rest and catch our early flight in the morning. Spending time with the Snedeker kids was probably the reason I was most sad to say goodbye. Rosie, Sophie, Nick, and Eleanor are the cutest and sweetest New York kids we’ve ever met! Sophie was pretty much attached to my hip the whole morning, and we just really enjoyed ourselves. By lunch time we said our goodbyes and headed off to finish our adventures in Rochester New York….

Hill Camorah was our first stop. We were planning on visiting the hill after the Smith Farm, but somehow got lost on our way. The Visitors Center is beautiful, and the hill steep to climb, but we were able to see the monument and take some pictures too. While in the visitors center we got to see the new Joseph Smith movie, which was pretty incredible too. After that we made our way back into Palmyra.

In downtown Palmyra is the Grandon Building. The original printing shop that printed the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon still stands there to this day. It is so neat to see how much the church puts into preserving all of the history sights so that we are able to enjoy them. They have really added a lot on to the building and it was neat to see several original copies of The Book of Mormon as well as beautiful artwork depicting all the incredible history that happened in Palmyra New York. Our tour had to be cut a little short so that we could make sure to be at Brother King’s by 6:00pm.

Dinner was pretty delicious, and that is saying a ton from a girl who hates chicken and things wings are disgusting. Brother King did make some pretty good wings. I was glad for the Dibella’s philly cheese steak I ate beforehand so that I was full :P lol. We weren’t expecting him to make us so much food.

After dinner was my favorite part, when we were able to be missionaries and share a message with Brother King. It was an very powerful experience that I will always remember. He has so many questions for us, and it was neat to be able to go through the scriptures and help him to understand. Having this experience honestly made me want to serve a mission and go out and teach more people. We won’t be doing that for a long time though, so I had to settle with leaving Brother King with a hug and a prayer.

While driving to Buffalo, Jason and I finished our second Hunger Games book. That tells you how much driving we were doing lol J We got back a little later than expected, visited with brother Kay, and hit the sack after a long enjoyable week behind us….