this site in the palmyra, new york, area is really the cradle of our faith. it's where joseph smith lived when he first began to receive revelations from our father in heaven. this is the site where the book of mormon was translated largely and where it was eventually published. that was in 1830. and it is exciting to be in the actual place where some of these events which are so special to us as members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints took place, there's a sense of coming home. a sense in some ways of a pilgrimage, although that's not a tenet of our faith exactly. the story starts out in the book of mormon with a group of people who leave jerusalem. they're led by a man who's had revelations from god. >> the lord spoke to me in a dream last night. he told me to take my family and go into the wilderness. >> leave jerusalem? >> those people are eventually led to the american continent. it's their new promised land. after they arrive, they have problems. there are brothers who don't get along, who have different ideas about how things should