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Best Talk on Martin Harris

Best Talk and information on Martin Harris, life and legacy talk by Dallin H Oaks

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Martin Harris Tests Joseph Smith

Martin Harris was one of the first people to believe Joseph Smith, outside of Joseph Smiths own family. Martin was a neighbor, a family friend in Palmyra, New York, at the infant stages of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Martin Harris was a truth seeker and supported Joseph through many hard times […]

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Joseph Smith finding the “Right Person” to obtain the Gold Plates

Joseph Smith received the gold plates from the Hill Cumorah and this was not a simple task. A lot was required of Joseph before he was able to obtain the plates. The Lord wanted Joseph to learn for himself important lessons, and it took time. After years of waiting Joseph needed to be ready to […]

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Mary Noble Impressions of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Mary B. Noble was a school teacher in Avon, New York when Joseph Smith came from Kirtland Ohio to her fathers home, and these were the impressions she wrote of her meeting the prophet. “This was the first time I ever beheld a prophet of the Lord and I can truly say as the first […]

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Emma Smith Interview on the Authenticity of The Book of Mormon

Emma Hale Smith saw first hand the miracles of the translation of The Book of Mormon through her husband the prophet Joseph Smith. She was as amazed as anyone would be, and maybe even more so, because she knew her husbands inadequacies. Emma was a strong support to her husband and even through the hardest […]

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Fun Facts about Joseph Smith

-Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Sharon, Vermont on December 23, 1805 to Joseph Smith Sr. And Lucy Mack Smith. -Joseph Smith had a dangerous leg infection as a seven year old boy. The doctor performed a highly advanced surgery that saved his leg. This surgery would not be performed again successfully for almost a […]

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The Three Witnesses of The Book of Mormon

When Joseph Smith, the first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, received the gold plates to translate, he was under strict instructions not to show anyone. It was a heavy wight to bear for the young prophet Joseph Smith. Joseph received a revelation, (Doctrine and Covenants 17) that he would be […]

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Who is Oliver Cowdery?

Oliver Cowdery was born October 3, 1806 in Wells, Vermont. Oliver Cowdery was a teacher in Manchester New York. While teaching in New York he heard about the prophet Joseph Smith and the translation of The Book of Mormon. In 1829, he accompanied the prophets brother, Samuel Smith to Harmony Pennsylvania where the young prophet […]

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Get to know Emma Hale Smith

Emma Smith was born in Harmony Pennsylvania, in Susquehanna County on July 10, 1804. She is the daughter or Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis. Emma grew up in very prosperous circumstances. Lucy Mack Smith(Joseph’s mother) described Emma’s childhood home as a “mansion” with “every convenient appendage necessary.” Emma was the seventh of nine children of […]

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David Whitmer’s Miracle

Stories of miracles are some of my favorite stories to tell and retell. Sometimes we forget that our God is a God of miracles. There is so much sadness, depression, anger in this world and there is a tendency to let that overrun all the good. There are also miracles, joy, hope, happiness, sunshine it […]

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