Herefordshire

In the morning we left Cardiff and drove back across the border into England to Herefordshire county. There we visited church history sites. Wilford Woodruff opened the Herefordshire area for missionary work and had incredible success with the people there. We visited the farm of one of the main families he baptized, the Benbow family.

Eating our chocolate cake for lunch.

We also visited Herefordshire Beacon, a large hill that is recorded in Wilford Woodruff’s journal as a place he liked to go to have alone time. We all climbed to the top and sang “High on the Mountain Top” as a group.

Atop Herefordshire Beacon

After climbing back down the hill we got back on the coach and drove to the Gadfield Elm Chapel, the oldest LDS church building in existence. To get in the door you have to answer some LDS trivia-type questions and use the answers as the code in the keypad on the lock. The questions were things like ‘How many chapters in the Book of Enos?’ and ‘How many Degrees of Glory are there?’ Fortunately we were able to answer all of them without much trouble :)

A tree outside Gadfield Elm Chapel