Month: May 2022

How to Read or Obtain The Book of Mormon

Read using a Smart Device – The book is often read by using the “Gospel Library” app downloaded on any smart device such as iPhones and Android phones. Read on the Computer – The Book of Mormon can be read online from the website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at https://churchofjesuschrist.org. Receive Physical Copy for […]
Brian Nettles

The Encountered Traveller Going to Cumorah

This article is a missionary report from Elders Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith in 1878. It includes their interview of David Whitmer, now 73 years of age. Many important items discussed. He talks of his encounter of a traveller on his way to Cumorah while David Whitmer, Joseph Smith, and Oliver Cowdery were travelling […]
Brian Nettles

Mary Whitmer – The Other Witness of the Gold Plates

It was many years before I ever heard this story told. Most people familiar with the Book of Mormon have seen the statements by the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses as these statements are at the beginning of the Book of Mormon. At the time these witnesses took place, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery […]
Brian Nettles

David Whitmer’s Unusual Preparation to Meet Joseph Smith

This section comes from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who is my great great great grandmother on my mother’s side. Edits were […]
Brian Nettles

Joseph Smith Obtains the Plates

This is another section from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray. Edits were later made to this book and republished as the History […]
Brian Nettles

Joseph Smith and Another Chastisement from the Angel

This section and some of the following sections come from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who is my great great great grandmother […]
Brian Nettles

Joseph Smith Meets his Future Wife Emma Hale

This section and some of the following sections come from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who is my great great great grandmother […]
Brian Nettles

Joseph Smith and the Untimely Death of his Brother Alvin

This section and some of the following sections come from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who is my great great great grandmother […]
Brian Nettles

Joseph Smith’s Mother Gives More Insight on Attempts at Obtaining the Plates

This section and some of the following sections come from “The Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations” written by Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith. The book was published in 1853 in Liverpool. The original ghost writer of this book is Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who is my great great great grandmother […]
Brian Nettles