This article was originally written by Scot and Maurine Proctor for Meridian Magazine. The following is an excerpt.
On our trips to Khor Kharfot, the best candidate for Bountiful, we used to wonder, did Nephi and his family leave anything behind here, and, of course, the immediate answer was, ‘no.’ How could it, in any way, be likely? They perhaps lived here only three or four years while they built a ship.
This place was a way station for them, a bit of relief from the miserable, thirsty 8-year journey they had made.
Small populations of people had obviously inhabited this verdant spot at times in the past and then abandoned it. We could certainly see the remains of their rock shelters, tower and mysterious double lines of rocks.
But these had been accomplished by larger populations of people who lived here for long periods. The Lehites were one small family of somewhere between 30 to 40 people, who came, lived here alone and went.
They already had an enormous building project in making a ship that could sail half way around the world. They wouldn’t have built and left something else, right?
Read the full article at LDSmag.com.
