Joseph Smith Biography

Eleven (1816) (^16) See Henry & Elizabeth Stommel, Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year without a Summer (Newport: S ...

TWELVE (1817) Lucy did not comprehend her son’s mission. Those in Joseph’s family, like others, were not prepared to know the tr ...

Twelve (1817) The Image of an Outstanding Family Joseph’s mother and most of his siblings were not stellar examples of humble an ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Planting Seeds for Presenting the Law of Consecration The young Joseph was greatly affected ...

Twelve (1817) humble and contrite to effectuate this desire in a capitalistic society, the young Joseph developed an emotional m ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity the use of prayer.^25 They couldn’t have been further from the truth. The hubbub concerning ...

Twelve (1817) See DHC, 4:93–4 and note (*), extract from Minutes of Iowa High Council held on 6 March 1840 at Elijah Fordham’s h ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity LUCIFER: I hear you. What is it you want? (SNS, 86–7.) (^23) BOM, Alma 12:11. (^24) “The ‘co ...

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Without Disclosing My True Identity The people believed in a God that could be everywhere and still dwell in each person’s heart ...

Thirteen (1818) Owing to the many reports which have been put in circulation by evil designing persons in relation to the rise a ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Joseph did this knowing all the while that only the first key had any application to man; an ...

Thirteen (1818) the “vision,” not as it actually happened, but by following the storyline given in the Book of Mormon when God i ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Although Joseph’s final dating of the beginning of his mission was fixed at 1820, there is e ...

Thirteen (1818) He [Moroni] said there was a book deposited written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitant ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Blindly Overlooking the Fullness of the Everlasting Gospel Joseph gave the people what they ...

Thirteen (1818) (^14) The terminology (i.e., “vision”) by which it is known to and understood by the LDS Church and which may be ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity (^40) Matthew 23:15. (^41) Matthew 24:7. (^42) The regional newspaper published in Salt Lake ...

FOURTEEN (1819) Life in Palmyra and Manchester, New York was routine for Joseph and his family. Timothy assisted Joseph Sr. in a ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity As Joseph Sr. approached the tavern, he noticed two “Injuns” tending to some horses tied out ...