The day I shot the photographs for this book was stunning. I hadn’t planned on it being so perfect. I wasn’t even there to shoot; I was leading a Church History tour. Yet, as I was giving my 5:30 AM lecture on young Joseph Smith’s experience and testimony, my peripheral vision kept tugging at me to look around. It had recently rained, followed by a fast drop in temperature the night before, and now the mists and moisture of morning were doing a magical dance with the rising sun.

I have photographed the Sacred Grove for over 30 years and never had I seen anything like this. In 90 minutes I shot 555 images, but I never really knew what to do with them—until now. I realized that these images were a gift to me, and I had to use them to help the youth of the Church and others interested in knowing about Joseph Smith and the First Vision see this place in resplendent beauty—to see it the way we picture it in our minds but never see in real life.

Such was the morning that you are about to see in this book. Could it have been this way when Joseph went into the woods to pray that beautiful spring day in 1820? It certainly was a day like no other.

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