Zarahemla and Phoenicia Together in Lee County, Iowa

I share with you John Lefgren and Mike and Betty LaFontaine’s Heartland Group Newsletter along with many pictures and videos from Firm Foundation. Heartland Research does an excellent work finding witnesses of the Book of Mormon. I sincerely believe their team of amazing researchers are confirming the truth of the Book of Mormon each day, and I so appreciate their hard work.

At our last Conference in Salt Lake, Mike and Betty Spoke and so did our Phoenicia Captain Philip Beale. Be sure and watch their new videos by clicking on the logo above.

This blog is full of PDF’s, Video’s, Pictures, and Highlights all about the Phoenicia Voyages and the people behind the scenes of both the 2008, and the 2019 voyages. There is plausible evidence that these very voyages made the route of Mulek and Lehi very possible. We share, you research and decide for yourself.

Phoenicia Ship Expedition by Rod Meldrum

“In 2009, The Phoenicia Ship Expedition has now demonstrated unequivocally that Lehi’s voyage could have left the Arabian Peninsula and sailed around Africa to the Americas rather than attempting to cross the earth’s largest ocean at its widest point, as proposed by Mesoamerican theorists.

In 2020 this same Phoenicia Ship Expedition has also demonstrated that Zedikiah’s son, Mulek escaped the Babylonians and could have left the area of Jerusalem on a Phoenician 600 BC style ship which sailed to the new world and continued near Florida and up the  Mississippi (Sidon) River and landing in present day Montrose, Iowa across the river from Nauvoo, Illinois. This one replica 600 BC ship has proven two very important voyages testified about in the Book of Mormon, that were accomplished. This Phoenician Ship has sailed over 40,000 nautical miles in the past 10 years or so, and the Heartland Group now owns this amazing ship. We are looking for funding or donations to save the Phoenicia and rebuild it and display it near Joseph Smith’s amazing city of Nauvoo…

Some have claimed, incorrectly, that there is a scriptural requirement for a west coast landing.  However, nowhere in the Book of Mormon does it state that they sailed east in their ship or that they landed on the west coast of the promised land.  This assumption is unfortunately based on a false report that Joseph Smith claimed that Lehi “…landed on the continent of South America in Chile, thirty degrees South Latitude” and has been thoroughly refuted by Church scholars (See Robert J. Matthews article on the subject).

This account has been shown to have been written in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams in the margins of the Bernhisel Manuscript.  It was a false report that was then promulgated time and again by faulty research, claiming that Joseph was its author.  That this claim, thought to be made by Joseph Smith, has been shown through historical documentation to have been falsely attributed, is further evidence for the need of solid historical documentation for all claims regarding the mind of the prophet.” Rod Meldrum His Article Continued Here

Lehi from Jerusalem to Oman

While in Salt Lake Heartland Research Group each had an opportunity to do long interviews with Rick Bennett at Gospel Tangent You can see them all at this link:

This is one of the best interviews by John Lefgren. Feel his passion, knowledge, and the strength of his testimony about the importance of these Phoenicia Voyages. You will come away touched by his amazing spirit.

ZARAHEMLA AND PHOENICIA TOGETHER IN LEE COUNTY IOWA

“In the last year, we worked more than 3,000 hours on the restoration of the PHOENICIA ship replica. In the coming year we intend to put at least 6,000 hours on the project.

Some have complained that the PHOENICIA has replaced our interest in finding the ancient city Zarahemla. This is not true. After all, Zarahemla is an ancient Phoenician word. The people of Mulek after the burning of the First Temple in the Bible came to America. These people 2,600 years ago founded the city of Zarahemla on the west banks of the Mississippi River in Lee County Iowa.

The restoration of the PHOENICIA and the discovery of Zarahemla go hand in hand, just like the Pilgrim Fathers and Plymouth Rock. Our Phoenicia Workshop is only a few hundred feet from the location of the Temple of Zarahemla. When you come to the PHOENICIA you are in Zarahemla.

We have already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in our search for Zarahemla. We have more details from large scientific scans and LiDAR imaging.

Click below to see a 38-page report we wrote two years ago showing the results from 223 acres of scanning. This report is just the beginning of what will come out of the ground.

We have the world’s highest resolution LiDAR scans for more than 10,000 acres coming out of the ground of the City of Zarahemla. Several experts have already looked at these scans. They have identified exact locations for pieces of a defensive wall that is as long as ten miles. We have already looked in the ground at the soil layers to determine whether or not they were placed there by people from earlier civilizations.

All these efforts require careful examination and lots of money. We will continue in our efforts to move the research forward.

We welcome your participation. We need your talents and resources as we push this work along. This research depends on your goodwill and donations. We pray for the blessings of God in all that we do.

Please help us as we discover together the truth coming across the Atlantic and out of the ground of the Heartland.” By John Lefgren