Follow Joseph Smith’s example and ‘look unto Christ,’ Elder Uchtdorf urges youth in worldwide broadcast
More than 200 years ago in 1820, Joseph Smith was a young farm boy with questions about religion and his standing before God.
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Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, Was Born Into an Impoverished and Itinerant Family in Vermont
Throughout his childhood, the young Smith, born on this day in 1805, fought disease, poverty and spiritual battles of his own ...
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Joseph Smith
Early one morning in the spring of 1820, Joseph went to a secluded woods ... He was told not to join any of the churches. In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was visited by an angel named Moroni ...
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The First Vision
According to the testimony of Joseph Smith's younger brother William, Joseph, at age 14, had heard Rev. George Lane preach a sermon on "what church shall I join" and quoted from the New Testament ...