We just visited the grave site of Alvin Smith - who died while Joseph was still in his youth.
Someone has upgraded his tombstone from the marble that was originally there to a granite marker.
It is wild to think of Joseph having stood at that very spot and having grieved over his brother - and then the excellent doctrines that flowed from that one experience.
The burial spot is on top of a clearly man-made mound just to the north of downtown Palmyra. Perfectly flat on top and rectangular in shape approx 40' high on the north side and about half as high on the south side, closer to town.
My wife and I walked the whole burial spot and wondered about it's shape.
I studied some of this because you peaked my interest in it from previous posts you way cool brother who provides this awesome site for us to search, ponder, discuss and pray without being treated like we're "out there".
ReplyDeleteAnyway, in Nephite times, it was custom to bury the dead in layers that became mounds so that there was more land space available for cultivating and expanding cities.
Tremendously fascinating about Alvin Smith being buried on such a mound. I applaud your keen observation and discovery.
(This comment spoken in my best british professorette wish I knew it all accent complete with wing back leather chair, fire place, liber-ee, round glasses, milk and cookies being as I don't smoke or drink alcohol .) LOL
Cool! We wanted to visit the site while in Palmyra 2 weeks ago but with kids of 6, 4, 2 and 7 months they were already done and we still had the pageant ahead of us. Pageant was amazing though. Everything else in Palmyra was great to see as well. When we were there at the Visitor's Center there was a Sister missionary from Manuas there. Did you see her while you were there? While in the visitors center a family from Brasil that lives in Florida came through so I really got the chance to practice the Portuguese!
ReplyDeleteYou've probably seen this link already but it looks like the word is really getting out now about what could be coming soon. Pretty fascinating research to piece together past events.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one