Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^7) “How I wish you could go with me through the Indian reservations and particularly
Navajo Land and see the poverty, want, and wretchedness, and realize again that these are sons
and daughters of God; that their miserable state is the result, not only of their centuries of wars and
sins and godlessness, but is also attributable to us, their conquerors, who placed them on
reservations with such limited resources and facilities, to starve and die of malnutrition and
unsanitary conditions, while we become fat in the prosperity from the assets we took from them.
Think of these things, my people, and then weep for the Indian, and with your tears, pray; then
work for him. Only through us, the ‘nursing fathers and mothers,’ may they eventually enjoy a
fulfillment of the many promises made to them. Assuming that we do our duty to them, the
Indians and other sons of Lehi will yet rise in power and strength. The Lord will remember his
covenant to them; his Church will be established among them; the Bible and other scriptures will
be made available to them; they will enter into the holy temples for their endowments and do
vicarious work; they will come to a knowledge of their fathers and to a perfect knowledge of their
Redeemer Jesus Christ; they shall prosper in the land and will, with our help, build up a holy city,
even the New Jerusalem, unto their God.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Conference Report,” Apr. 1947:
151–2, emphasis added.) (This can also be found in “Chapter 12, Spencer W. Kimball | Twelfth
President of the Church,” Presidents of the Church | Student Manual, Religion 345 [Salt Lake City: LDS
Church, 2003] 203.)
(^8) BOM, 3 Nephi 21:22–5.
(^9) JSH 1:34.
(^10) BOM, Mormon 8:2.
(^11) BOM, Mormon 7:10.
(^12) BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^13) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:10.
(^14) BOM, Ether 4:17.
(^15) TSP, 68:59. “And if ye are wise and follow the Spirit and pray for an understanding of these
things, then ye shall know the time that the Lord hath given for all things, even ye can know of the
year in which the Lord shall come in the glory that the Father hath given unto him.”
(^16) BOM, 3 Nephi 21:7.
(^17) BOM, 3 Nephi 21:8.
(^18) “[A]nd I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and
there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and the keys of this priesthood
are conferred.” (D&C, 132:7, emphasis added.)
(^19) TSP, 79:69.
(^20) BOM, 3 Nephi 21: 22; D&C, 1:14–16; 105:2–10.
(^21) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:10.
(^22) BOM, 3 Nephi 21:24.
(^23) For text of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs’ “Exterminating Order” of 27 October 1838, see
DHC, 3:175.
(^24) See D&C, 52:11.
(^25) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:8.
(^26) D&C, 52:1.
(^27) D&C, 52:2.
(^28) See D&C, 52:2, 11. See also DHC, 1:177.
(^29) Compare PGP, Moses 6:27.
(^30) DHC, 1:188.
(^31) Compare D&C, 109:59.
(^32) D&C, 36:5.
(^33) Compare PGP, Moses 6:55–6.
(^34) HR, 1:35; 4:1.