Hey guys, so in the last episode, we talked about Joseph Smith finally obtaining the long-awaited golden plates and other Nephite relics from a hill south of his family’s farm. We talked about how he was attacked while bringing the plates home, and we talked about how...
On September 22 of 1823, a teenager named Joseph Smith was visited by an angel named Moroni. The angel informed him of an ancient record engraved on metal plates that was buried in a hill (later called the Hill Cumorah) about three miles south of his family’s log...
Hey guys, so on this channel, we’ve talked a lot about the official witnesses of Joseph Smith Jr.’s golden plates, but we haven’t talked a lot about those people who presumably would have known Joseph even better than most of the witnesses — Joseph’s own brothers and...
In the Spring of 1820, the Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith had his first miraculous vision. His brother, William, later said, “We never knew we were bad folks until Joseph told his vision. We were considered respectable till then, but at once people began to...
Hey guys, so before the Church was organized and before the Book of Mormon was translated, a young Joseph Smith engaged in a folk practice known as treasure-digging. Now, as the saying goes, “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” And...
