Marieva's Thoughts For The Day

How I know the Godhead is Three Separate Personages
These are my thoughts on the subject. This is my testimony to you and the World that
God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three separate persons.

1. When Christ was baptized ,the Holy Ghost descended upon him in a form of a dove. John
the Baptist baptized Christ. So this tells me that they are two different persoanges. The Holy
Ghost does not have a body like Christ he is a spirit.

2. When Christ was upon the cross and it was nearing the end. He cried unto his Father
saying if it be possible remove this cup from me, not my will but thy will be done. If Christ Father was Jesus Christ why would he be praying to himself.?

3. When the mother of Mary was visited by God and she conceived Christ in her stomach at
that time how could Christ & God be the same person.

4. When Joseph Smith had a vision he saw two separate personages. One said behold this is my Son in whom I am well pleased. God was pleased to introduce his son to Joseph.

5. In the Beginning in the War in heaven there was God present and Jesus Christ and Satan.
God Chose Christ to come to the Earth to atone for our sins. That tells me God's son is Jesus Christ. and God is his father.

6. How God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost is one in spirit , means they think alike and
act as one, what ever question we would ask each one they would answer the same. They are alike in likeness, thought, ideas and they would act the same in each situation because they think the same way.

7. In Acts 7:55 Stephen saw God & Jesus Christ separately so that tells me also that they are separate persons.

How to Recognize the Whisperings of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of Christ is given to everyone, that he may know good from Evil

1. You are heading somewhere and you get the impression you should stop and go to a
certian place before you are to reach your destination you were heading to.
2. Prompted to call someone a family member or a friend
3. Plan on going to a party with some friends and an impressions comes to you that you
should not go. Your values might be could be compromised.
4. Enos was struggling with the spirit a voice of the Lord came into his mind .
5. When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of Ideas
peace, hope, and joy can come to you and this is a sign of the Holy Spirit talking to you.
6. A sensation of light can come to you, you might say I have never thought of it in that way
that is the Holy spirit enlightening you.
7. You might feel like this 8 yr old little boy when he stated" I just receive the Holy
Spirit it felt like sunshine.
8. You can feel happiness at certain times and that is the Holy Spirit talking to you.
9, You can feel a flood of warmth sweep over you
10.You can feel peace come over you and a distinct feeling that Heavenly Father was
pleased with you.
11.There are places where it is easier to feel the spirit. Church, Temple grounds, General
Conference, Testimony meetings, reading the scriptures, prayer, reading others experiences of faith in your homes we need to provide opportunities for the spirit to talk to us.
12. As Still small voice, it is important for us to have time of quiet in our lives. Where television
computer, video games or personal electronics devices, we allow that, still small voice an
opportunity to provide personal revelation and to whisper sweet guidance, reassurance, and comfort to us.
13. Wrap yourself in a warm blanket and that is how it will feel when the Holy Ghost comes to talk to you. It feels like comfort and security.

When we come to understand the whisperings of the Spirit, we will be able to hear Him teach us "the peacable things of the kingdom " and of Heavenly Father, and "all things what we should do." We will recognize answers to our prayers and know how to live our lives more fully each day. We will be guided and protected.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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I was reading this morning in the Scripture. Yesterday we were reading about the tree of life that is mentioned in Revelations 22: 1-3. The Lord was talking to John and he was shown a vision of the Temple. it was interesting that I had a piece of paper stuck in there where I had studied it before and it says this .

How we are to like the Judeans in the wilderness & dead sea if we do not partake of the water of Life?
This is notes I had put on the paper. We need spiritual strength to combat battles with Satan
The living water is words of Eternal Life.
Message of Salvation
Truths about God & his kingdom
Doctrines of the Gospel
Go to the Temple

So I took it differently than I have ever before. The tree of life is the Temple and going to it we can receive the living waters to be able to help us return to his Kingdom . The fruit is the gospel of Jesus Christ. My husband said, " I never new the bible talked about the tree of life before. "So he learned something last night and I did to. I have read this before I just had forgotten it. It was very enlightening for me to read it again. Especially the feelings I have been having lately. That is my answer to what I have been dealing with lately feeling down. The Temple is where I need to be and learn about the things I need to learn to combat Satan.

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This is how the church talks about this particular article that was put out by a person who had been ex communicated from the church. If you want to know the truth go to the Church of Jesus Christ and you will find out how it really was. This is the Churchs comments on it.

Bruce D. Blumell, “I Have a Question,” /Ensign/, Sept. 1976, 84–87

*Bruce D. Blumell, senior historical associate, Church Historical Department* Historically, the most popular anti-Mormon or non-Mormon explanation of the origin of the Book of Mormon has been that it was based on a manuscript written by Solomon Spaulding. In spite of its weaknesses, this theory continues to surface from time to time even in our day. Another more recent theory, also open to criticism, suggests that Joseph Smith used Ethan Smith’s (no relation) /View of the Hebrews, /which was published during the 1820s, to help him write the Book of Mormon.

Solomon Spaulding was born in 1761 in Connecticut, and lived in New England and New York until he moved to Conneaut, Ohio, in 1809. Because his business there was unsuccessful, he decided to write a story about some of the original inhabitants of America which he hoped he might be able to publish and sell. While working on the story he read extracts of it to several of his neighbors from time to time. In 1812 he moved to the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, area where he died in 1816, never having found a publisher for his manuscript.

In 1833, Philastus Hurlbut, a former member of the Church who had been excommunicated for immorality, was employed by an anti-Mormon committee in Ohio to collect derogatory evidence against Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. In the process of attempting to secure such information, Hurlbut interviewed a number of people who claimed to have known Joseph or known of him. Among those Hurlbut said he talked to were eight people from the Conneaut, Ohio, area who signed affidavits claiming that the Book of Mormon was based on Solomon Spaulding’s unpublished manuscript written more than twenty years previously. Hurlbut sold these affidavits to Eber D. Howe, who published them the next year in his vitriolic exposé entitled /Mormonism Unvailed /[/sic/]. Howe argued that Sidney Rigdon, while still a Reformed Baptist preacher, had come across the manuscript and had used it to help him write the Book of Mormon, which he then secretly conveyed to Joseph Smith, who published the book as his own production.

After Philastus Hurlbut gathered his affidavits, he found one manuscript among Solomon Spaulding’s papers; but neither he nor Howe published it. About fifty years later, in 1884, L. L. Rice found this manuscript among papers he had inherited from Howe. He turned the manuscript over to Oberlin College in Ohio, and it was published the next year.

The manuscript, entitled “Manuscript Story—Conneaut Creek,” bears no relationship to the Book of Mormon in either style or content. It is written in modern English and is only about one-sixth the length of the Book of Mormon. The story commences with a group of Romans during the reign of Constantine who were blown off course on their way to Britain and landed in America. In this novel one of the Romans served as the narrator of what the group observed. The major part of the chronicle is the description of two Indian nations who have the Ohio River as a common border. A romance between a prince of one nation and a princess of the other leads to a great war between the two groups which is described in some detail.

Most writers who mention this subject, both nonmembers of the Church and members, either directly indicate or appear to assume that the Spaulding manuscript claimed the American Indians were the lost ten tribes of Israel, or remnants of these tribes. This it does not do. In fact, the manuscript makes no attempt to explain the origins of the Indians.

The similarities between this manuscript and the Book of Mormon are general and superficial at best. In the introduction to his novel, Spaulding described finding the manuscript buried in the earth, but it was a parchment written in Latin, not metal plates with a Middle Eastern language. Spaulding developed his own unique nomenclature for his story, but none of these names bear any resemblance to Book of Mormon names. The story has in it a transatlantic migration, although the group came from Rome, not Jerusalem. And there is a great war between two civilizations, both Indian, although neither succeeds in completely annihilating the other. Yet these vague similarities could have led Spaulding’s neighbors, especially with prompting from Hurlbut, to believe the Book of Mormon was lifted from Spaulding’s manuscript.

The affidavits that Hurlbut gathered are very similar in style and content, which suggests that if Hurlbut did not write them himself, he strongly influenced their composition. There is a similarity of syntax and phrasing and an amazing uniformity of details in the various statements. These eight witnesses had just read or were recently familiar with the Book of Mormon, while it had been twenty-plus years since they had heard excerpts from the Spaulding manuscript. With this time differential, these witnesses unconsciously could easily have transposed some details of the Book of Mormon, which was fresh in their minds, to the broad general story Spaulding wrote, which was distant and dim to them.

In his /Mormonism Unvailed, /Howe argued that Joseph Smith did not possess enough education or understanding of theology to have written the more religious parts of the Book of Mormon. He decided it must have been done by Sidney Rigdon, who had been a skilled and influential Reformed Baptist or Campbellite preacher in northeastern Ohio before joining with the Latter-day Saints. Howe claimed that Sidney Rigdon had come upon the Spaulding manuscript and had copied or stolen it and subsequently added the theology to it to produce the Book of Mormon. During all of this, Howe argued, Rigdon secretly communicated with Joseph Smith to palm the book off as Joseph’s creation.

This part of the theory breaks down for several reasons. First of all, the style of the Book of Mormon is very different from the embellished rhetoric Sidney Rigdon exhibited in his sermons. Second, there is no proof to show that Sidney Rigdon ever came in contact with the Spaulding manuscript. And third, the attempts to show him secretly communicating with Joseph Smith are simply unfounded. During the writing and printing of the Book of Mormon, from 1827 to 1830, Sidney Rigdon was a popular preacher in northeastern Ohio, and his whereabouts were known to a number of people. Yet none ever indicated that he was involved in such a conspiracy, and neither did any of Joseph’s associates. Such a complicity would have been virtually impossible to carry out, especially since it would have involved either Joseph Smith or Sidney Rigdon periodically traveling about 300 miles to see the other, and consequently being gone from their areas of residence for long periods of time, taking into account the primitive modes of travel in those days.

Sidney Rigdon continued avidly to teach his Reformed Baptist faith until he heard the message of the Restoration from the first Latter-day Saint missionaries in his area, almost eight months after the publication of the Book of Mormon and the organization of the Church. This, of course, would have been extremely unlikely if he had really been the author of the book and thus the originator of much early Latter-day Saint theology. In fact, if Sidney Rigdon had written the Book of Mormon, it is improbable that a man of his prominence would have let Joseph Smith found the Church and be the leader, and then later let Joseph publicly censure him several times when he opposed the Prophet’s policies. Even when Rigdon was excommunicated in August 1844 because of his opposition to Brigham Young’s leadership of the Church, he made no intimation that he was the author of the Book of Mormon. Late in his life, long after parting with Brigham Young and the body of the Latter-day Saints, Sidney Rigdon forcefully reiterated to his questioning son that he had nothing to do with writing the Book of Mormon. He added that he knew Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the Book of Mormon was true.

At the end of his book /Mormonism Unvailed, /Howe reported briefly that a Spaulding manuscript had been found; but since it was so different in language, style, and detail from the Book of Mormon, he conjectured that Spaulding had produced a revised version that was similar to the Book of Mormon before his death in 1816. Howe felt it must have been this purported revised manuscript from which Spaulding read extracts to some of his neighbors.

Those anti-Mormon writers who have bothered to read /Mormonism Unvailed /and the Spaulding manuscript found in 1884 have usually accepted Howe’s belief in a still lost revised Spaulding manuscript. Solomon Spaulding wrote other stories, according to several acquaintances including his widow and daughter, but they never claimed there was a second version of the manuscript. Hurlbut himself believed there was only one manuscript, the one he obtained from Mrs. Spaulding, which was the one later published in 1885. He also believed it had served as the basis of the Book of Mormon, although, after examining it, Howe realized it had not, as noted above.

If there had been a revised second version of the manuscript, one would logically expect some of the facts, details, and incidents in it to be similar to the original version. Yet none of the affidavit witnesses recalled details from the extant Spaulding manuscript, only from the Book of Mormon. For example, the names they remember are Book of Mormon names; yet Spaulding had created a lexicon of his own names in his manuscript. If he had revised the story, certainly he would have kept some of the original names in the second edition, and surely several of the witnesses would have remembered at least one or two if their memories (of events over twenty years previously) really served them as well as they claimed.

Furthermore, since no writer can easily change his style, one could assume that the revised version of Spaulding’s story, had there been a revised version, would be at least somewhat comparable in style to the first. And if the Book of Mormon had really been plagiarized, as claimed, from Spaulding’s supposed second edition, then one might logically expect similarities in style between the extant manuscript and the Book of Mormon. But the Book of Mormon is much different in style from the flowery figures of speech and romantic rhetoric which Spaulding employed.

If there were a second version of the manuscript there would still be the problem of getting it to Sidney Rigdon and finally to Joseph Smith. As noted earlier, this is the weakest link in the conspiratorial chain of improbabilities and unlikely events that attempt to show the Spaulding manuscript as the basis for the Book of Mormon.

While Spaulding’s manuscript said nothing about the origin of the American Indians, there were many people during Joseph Smith’s lifetime and earlier in American history who believed that the Indians were the descendants of the lost ten tribes of Israel. A number of books had been written on the subject. As settlers from Europe came in contact with the Indians of North America, they were naturally curious about the origins of these people. Theologians especially looked to the Bible for answers, and some speculated that the lost tribes were the ancestors of the Indians. Joseph Smith might easily have been familiar with this theme.

Therefore, during the past thirty years some non-Mormon scholars, realizing the weakness of the Spaulding manuscript theory, have postulated that Joseph Smith might have gained some of the ideas for the Book of Mormon from a book by Ethan Smith entitled /View of the Hebrews, /first published in Vermont in 1823, with a revised, enlarged edition published in 1835. In this book Ethan Smith endeavored to show, on the basis of scientific research of the time, that the American Indians were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.

But although the Book of Mormon does report several migrations of small groups of Israelites to the western hemisphere, it does not say that the native peoples of America were of the lost ten tribes. Furthermore, there is no evidence that Joseph Smith was familiar with the /View of the Hebrews /before 1842, when he quoted from an 1833 book which quoted from the /View of the Hebrews. /He published the passage in the /Times and Seasons, /apparently to show that there were at least some authorities who believed ancient Hebrews had come to America. (/Times and Seasons, /June 1842, 3:813–14.) If the Prophet had originally used Ethan Smith’s book to help him write the Book of Mormon, almost certainly he would not have later published a quote from it to illustrate a point, since plagiarists normally keep their sources a secret.

Out of the multitude of ideas and events in the Book of Mormon and in the /View of the Hebrews /there are several broad similarities, but many more significant differences; and a correlation at some point between two things does not prove one caused the other; it may mean, for example, that both things were the result of an independent third factor. If Joseph Smith were going to borrow material to help him write the Book of Mormon, there were certainly sources other than Ethan Smith’s book to which he could have gone. Everything that is common or even vaguely similar between the Book of Mormon and the /View of the Hebrews /could have been borrowed more easily from the Bible or from prevailing beliefs at that time. In fact, this would have been much more likely, since Joseph Smith and his family were avid readers of the Bible.

Critics who have recognized that the Book of Mormon could not have been plagiarized from any single source claim that Joseph Smith was a skilled eclectic who borrowed ideas from all over his social and intellectual environment and thereby was able to create the potpourri called the Book of Mormon. This “environmentalist” approach is usually the most satisfying for scholars who in some measure conscientiously examine the question of the book’s origins but cannot admit the possibility of divine intervention. However, Dr. Hugh Nibley of Brigham Young University has most successfully argued that there are ideas and material in the book different from the prevailing beliefs of Joseph Smith’s era, and different from any other source extant in the 1820s, including the Bible. It is, he adds, significant that since the publication of the Book of Mormon there have been such things uncovered as ancient Middle Eastern sources which in no case contradict, but rather parallel, many Book of Mormon ideas and word usages. He concludes that guesswork on the part of the Prophet Joseph could not possibly account for all these parallels, which were unknown at the time of the Book of Mormon translation. For able presentation of these points of view one may examine such books as /Lehi in the Desert, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, /and /Since Cumorah /by Brother Nibley.

In short, the simplest and most accurate assumption about the origin of the Book of Mormon is that it is exactly what Joseph Smith said it was—an ancient work translated “by the gift and power of God.” (See Testimony of the Three Witnesses.)

[illustration] Illustrated by Dale Kilbourn

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This was sent to me today and this is what it said very good I thought.

"Ring... Ring..."

Hello, are you here God? I don't know if you know who I am,
people have told me that all I have to do is call and you will
be there anytime of the day, I sit here thinking why am I doing
this I am not even sure if you exist, something is pulling at my
heart, that is why I have called, I am lost in what to do.
I ask once again are you there God? Yes I am all you have to
do is ask.
God how are you doing? I was not sure if you would answer
or not, God I really don't know what to say, I have been told that
I can pour my heart out to you, God I am hurting can you help
Yes I can help you first you have to believe in me, ask for for-
giveness by praying this simple prayer:
Thank You for Dying
On The cross for my sins.
I am sinner, come into my
life so that I can have
Everlasting Life in you
Amen

Now that you have said this prayer you will constantly hunger
for my word, you can never get enough of it, you will want to read
it, don't keep it to yourself share it with others, because they may know
the joy you now have, be an example to others, because now that they
know that you are living for me they will watch you and look for the
changes you talk about.
Now I have a question for you how do you feel?
Oh Lord I feel so full of life there is no longer an emptiness in my
heart, I feel the joy that you told me about, now Lord will I loose this
joy?
No you will not loose it, it is eternal. live righteously always do
according to My will and you will not loose the joy.
Satan will try and tell you differently but don't listen to him your
walk with me won't be easy, you will get persecuted for your belief in
me. You will stumble and fall, but I will always be there to pick you up
and comfort you.
God thank you for being a friend thank you for your assurance and
love.
Your Son


John Munson
3-20-98

The Mormon's Belief


The Thirteen Articles of Faith

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in the Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost
2. We believe that man will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's Transgression
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved,by obedience
to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are first. Faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ, second. Repentance, third Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins;
forth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy; and by the laying on of hands
for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles,
pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7.We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of
tongues and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly, we also believe
the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that he will
reveal many grat and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10.We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisical glory.
11. We claim the priviledge of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all me the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12. We believe in being subject ot kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying honoring and sustaining the law.
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Preparing a Prophet – The Early Life of Joseph Smith


Throughout history the Lord has prepared His prophets from an early age. Moses was saved from death when his mother placed him in a basket. Samuel was given to the Lord by his mother at an early age and then saw the Lord when still a child. Joseph Smith Jr. was no exception.

Joseph Smith Jr. was born 23 December 1805 in Vermont. His family later moved to New York. Joseph Smith's parents Joseph and Lucy Mack were very religious and placed great importance upon hard work, Bible study, and prayer.

One experience in young Joseph Smith's life shows the remarkable courage, strength, and faith that he would exhibit in later years. As a result of typhoid fever which Joseph Smith had contracted when seven years old, a painful infection settled in his leg. The doctors wanted to amputate, but Joseph refused. So the doctors decided to remove a section of bone. Joseph Smith refused alcohol for pain and then instead of being tied down insisted that his father hold him. "Then looking up into [his mother's] face, his eyes swimming in tears, he continued, 'Now mother, promise me that you will not stay, will you? The Lord will help me, and I shall get through with it."1 As the doctors began the procedure Joseph Smith screamed with pain. But when his mother entered the room he regained enough composure to say, "I will try to tough it out, if you will go away." 2
Lucy Mack Smith described her son Joseph Smith as a remarkably quiet, well-disposed child." 3 She played a great role in his upbringing as she sought for her children to seek salvation for their immortal souls. She "had a great deal of faith that [her] children were going to do something great," 3 and felt impressed to prepare them for this greatness.

Joseph Smith himself was child "much less inclined to the perusal of books… but far more given to meditation and deep study."4 He took time to contemplate the nature of God and religion.
Joseph Smith was not only born into a family that taught him to believe in God, to study the Bible, and to seek religious truth, but at a time when religion was a priority. When Joseph Smith was about twelve years old his family moved to the Palmyra New York area, an area that was involved in a great religious revival at the time. This area of New York is referred to as the "Burned-over District" because most people joined a religious sect.

It was into this religious fervor that young Joseph Smith was brought to ask the question, "Which church is true?"
For more information about Joseph Smith see the links below:
Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Smith - American Prophet
Joseph Smith Daguerreotype Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith Joseph Smith: Biography and Much More From Answers.com Joseph Smith - Lightplanet Joseph Smith - bellsouth



(1) Anderson, Richard Lloyd. "The Trustworthiness of Young Joseph Smith." The Improvement Era, Vol 73, Number 10 (October 1970). pg. 88 (2) Anderson, Richard Lloyd. "The Trustworthiness of Young Joseph Smith."
(3) Lucy Mack Smith. Wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Mack_Smith (4) Anderson, Richard Lloyd. "The Trustworthiness of Young Joseph Smith."

Joseph Smith – Husband and Father

Much of the character of a man can be determined by how they treat their wife and children. The love and concern that Joseph Smith had for his wife Emma Hale and his children is apparent, and speaks much to the character of the man.
Throughout their seventeen years of marriage Joseph Smith and Emma suffered many hardships including the loss of six of their eleven children, two of which were adopted. Emma was often left alone as Joseph Smith was persecuted for his beliefs.

During separation the thoughts of Joseph Smith often turned to his beloved wife. On one occasion he wrote, "O my affectionate Emma, I want you to remember that I am a true and faithful friend to you and the children forever. My heart is entwined around yours forever an ever… P.S. Write as often as you can, and if possible come and see me, and bring the children."1
And the next year from Pennsylvania: “I feel very anxious to see you all once more in this world. … I pray God to spare you all until I get home. My dear Emma, my heart is entwined around you and those little ones. Tell all the children that I love them and will come home as soon as I can. Yours in the bonds of love, your husband." 2 Parley P. Pratt commented on the example of father and husband that Joseph Smith was to him, saying, "It was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity; and that the refined sympathies and affections which endeared us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love." 3 The prophet Joseph Smith taught that husbands and wives should be "companions, the nearest and dearest objects on earth in every sense of the word." 4 He admonished men to treat their wives kindly. He tried to practice what he preached. When his wife Emma was sick he constantly attended to her needs. One journal entry dated 2 October 1842 stated simply, "Emma continued very sick. I was with her all day." 5
Joseph Smith took advantage of the time that he had with his family, playing with his children, and loving his wife. Before his death, the marriage of Joseph Smith and Emma was sealed for time and all eternity.
Much praise is given to Joseph Smith's many accomplishments and the greatness of his character. But one aspect of his character that should be praised and exemplified by all is best expressed in the oft-repeated entry in the Prophet’s journal: “I was with my family.” 6
For more information about Joseph Smith refer to the sources below: Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith JS-H 1 Joseph Smith BBC - Religion & Ethics - The Story of Joseph Smith Joseph Smith: Biography and Much More From Answers.com Joseph Smith - Lightplanet
(1) Letter from Joseph Smith to Emma Smith, 12 Nov. 1838, Richmond, Missouri; Community of Christ Archives, Independence, Missouri. (2) Letter from Joseph Smith to Emma Smith, 20 Jan. 1840, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois. (3) Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, ed. Parley P. Pratt Jr. (1938), 259–60; paragraph divisions altered. (4) They Knew the Prophet, comp. Hyrum L. and Helen Mae Andrus, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1974, p. 139.) (5) History of the Church, 5:167–68. (6) History of the Church, 4:550.