Picture taken at the Peter Whitmer farmhouse replica. The house was built on the original foundation using old timbers of the time period. There were not enough timbers to finish the house. Nearby a farmer had an old barn that he had been trying to take down. Every time he would work on it, his tools and equipment would fail. He tried burning it and it wouldn't burn. He offered it to the church if they would come take it down, which they did without trouble. Then they had enough material to finish the construction of the house. He was not a member (his neighbors referred to him as Norman the Mormon), but later joined the church because of his donation of the logs. He was the first one to take out his endowments at the newly built Palmyra Temple. Tender mercies of the Lord.
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