2025 - PRIVATE TOUR FOR Women of Covenant Leadership & Church History Tour with Barbara Morgan Gardner & Elaine Dalton

Dates April 26-30, 2025
Destination Palmyra, NY; Susquehanna River; Kirtland, OH;
Duration 5 days 4 nights
Price From 3,000

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Woman of Covenant Leadership is a Nonprofit organization. Any woman wanting to join this tour and support this organization may sign up. The tour cost is tax-deductible for all full-paying participants. 

We invite you to join Elaine Dalton and BYU Professor and favorite speaker, Barbara Morgan Gardner, author of the bestselling book, “Priesthood Power of Women,” on a unique restoration tour this spring! 

Let’s do something extraordinary together as we experience first-hand the restoration and unfolding of the gospel of Jesus Christ, understand the priesthood power of women, and become more effective women of covenant leadership. As we go to these sacred places together, we will have a unique experience as women to study the history, doctrines, principles, and applications of these scriptures and learn together, on a life-changing, beautiful Church history trip gathered as women in a faith-promoting, grounded, and uniquely memorable manner! 

We hope that this will be a wonderful experience for all who join! Don't wait to book, this tour will sell quickly! 

Special YSA price option available - See Tour Includes tab for details.

Questions? Contact:

Dani Edmunds, Tour Manager
Tel: (801) 483-6114
Email Dani

Day 1: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Day 1: Saturday, April 26, 2025

Home City - Rochester, NY Airport - Palmyra

We depart our home cities this morning for Palmyra, NY. Please plan to arrive the Rochester, NY airport before 6:00pm. Group transfers will depart the Rochester, NY airport to the Palmyra Inn at 6:00pm. Following dinner, we will enjoy time at the Palmyra Temple. (Information will be sent out regarding temple appointments.)

Meals : Dinner, In-flight
Day 2: Sunday, April 27, 2025
Day 2: Sunday, April 27, 2025

Palmyra 

Early this morning we visit the Sacred Grove and enjoy a morning devotional with Barbara Morgan Gardner. There will also be time to walk around and reflect on the special events that took place here. Following our time in the grove, we will attend Sacrament meeting. After lunch, we visit the restored Joseph Smith Sr. home and farm, including the cabin where Moroni first appeared to young Joseph and then visit the E. B. Grandin Building where the Book of Mormon was printed. For our last stop of the day, we visit the Hill Cumorah.

Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Monday, April 28, 2025
Day 3: Monday, April 28, 2025

Fayette, NY - Susquehanna, PA 

Today we travel to Fayette, NY to the Peter Whitmer Farm where the church was organized on April 6, 1830. Next we depart for the Priesthood Restoration site in Susquehanna County, PA. Here we will see the new visitor’s center and meetinghouse, the reconstructed homes of Joseph and Emma Smith and Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, the woods where John the Baptist restored the priesthood, and the baptismal site at the Susquehanna River.

Meals : Breakfast, Lunch
Day 4: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Day 4: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Hiram - Kirtland

Today we travel to Hiram, OH and Kirtland. Our first stop will be the John Johnson home. It was here that Joseph Smith completed the new translation of the Bible, received the vision of the three degrees of glory and was tarred and feathered by a local, minister-led mob. Our next stop will be the newly acquired Kirtland temple and Joseph and Emma's restored home.

Meals : Breakfast, Dinner
Day 5: Wednesday, April 20, 2025
Day 5: Wednesday, April 20, 2025

Hiram - Cleveland Airport - Home

Early this morning we visit the Morley Farm and then spend time visiting the historic Kirtland village. These sites include the LDS Visitor’s Center, Whitney Home and Store, Johnson Inn, Ashery, and Sawmill. Following our picnic lunch at the Temple Quarry, we will drive to the Cleveland airport with new found testimonies of our church history.

Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, In-flight

Included:

  • 4-night's hotel accommodations
  • Meals as specified on itinerary
  • Ground transportation via deluxe air-conditioned motor-coach
  • Group airport transfers when arriving and departing with the group
  • All Admissions and activities as specified in itinerary
  • Meal gratuities on included meals
  • Taxes on included services
  • All Admissions and activities as specified in itinerary
  • Workbooks
  • Taxes on included services
  • Tour Director/Historian Barbara Morgan Gardner and Elaine Dalton

  • Not Included:
  • Airfare to Rochester, NY and back from Cleveland, OH
  • Additional transfers when not arriving or departing with the group
  • Meals not specified in itinerary
  • Items of a personal nature
  • Trip cancellation and baggage insurance
  • Checked baggage fees
  • Bus Driver and Historian gratuities

Pricing:

    • $3,000 per person based on Double Occupancy (2 people sharing a room)
    • $3,300 for private room based on Single Occupancy (1 person in a room)
    • $1,824 YSA Double Occupancy (2 people sharing a room) - Rate not eligible for tax deduction
    • $1,774 YSA Triple Occupancy (3 people sharing a room) - Rate not eligible for tax deduction
    • $1,724 YSA Quad Occupancy (4 people sharing a room) - Rate not eligible for tax deduction

Prices are based on a minimum of 30 paying tour members. If the minimum numbers fall below 30, the price will increase. 

*Please note roll away beds are not available.

Payment Terms:

  • $500 per-person deposit due at time of booking (Deposit and final payment are non-refundable!)
  • Final payment due March 10, 2025
  • Tour number 9225D26
  • Terms & Conditions