Soon afterward, a vision instructs Smith to move the nascent Mormon community west to Kirtland. Other missionaries proceed to Missouri and settle in Independence. February: Joseph and Emma Smith ...
a large group of Mormons rejected Young’s vision and remained in the Midwest. They persuaded Joseph Smith III, the prophet’s ...
Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...
To read the Book of Mormon, one must find the Savior from its first chapter to the last, said President Russell M. Nelson in ...
The Book of Mormon was less than 25 years old before it reached the shores of Aotearoa in 1854. Its author, Joseph Smith, was the son of a farmer living in upstate New York. The early 1800s was a ...
The four-panel canvas depicts the tree of life, the baptism of Jesus Christ, prophet Joseph Smith's first vision, and the Plan of Salvation – parables considered sacrosanct in Mormon iconography.