But it was in this small town in the Finger Lakes where Joseph Smith ... the grove to pray. While praying, he is said to have seen a "pillar of light" and two images — identified as God and ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana.

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

ask of God” (Joseph Smith History 1:13). That fateful spring morning, Joseph entered a densely wooded grove of trees with the intent to pray for his answers. His answers came in a miraculous ...

President Russell M. Nelson said: “If Joseph Smith’s transcendent experience in the Sacred Grove teaches us anything, it is that the heavens are open and that God speaks to his children.” ...

A paramount doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a belief in God the Father, his Son Jesus ... need for divine authority. As Joseph Smith, first prophet and President ...

I think the desire and the effort to reach out to God, especially if it is in a ... May the good Lord, bless and keep you and those you love. Father Joseph Smith is the pastor of historic St ...

Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith ... inhabitants of America. Smith later said he found them on a hill—known today as Hill Cumorah—near his father’s farm in Manchester ...

The history of Joseph Smith ... text that told him to ask God what to do. Joseph went out into the country and prayed for guidance, and he had a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ.

The history of Joseph Smith ... text that told him to ask God what to do. Joseph went out into the country and prayed for guidance, and he had a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ.