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Most Honored Woman (1830)
 

Latter-day Saints are well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph's wife and mother as devout and loyal believers of Joseph's prophetic calling. Fewer are familiar with his grandmother whom he blessed and called the "most honored woman on earth."  Mary Duty, the mother of Joseph Sr. accepted the gospel along with her husband Asael in 1830 but neither was baptized. Asael died shortly after reading and believing the Book or Mormon. Mary traveled to Kirt... Read More

What Manner of Man:

A Weekly Program to Better Know the Savior

 

Week 12 -- Righteous Indignation

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

Was the Savior every angry?  Yes and no.  No, he did not lose control, did not let passion or emotion rule, did not retaliate against those who abused him.  But yes, he got angry in the sense of righteous indignation, the kind of controlled by powerful anger and action that repulsed temptation (Ma... Read More

It Wasn't Joseph (1830)

It would be logical to assume that the Prophet Joseph would have given the first public discourse in this dispensation, but he didn't. Just as Aaron was chosen to be the spokesman for Moses, Oliver Cowdery was given the same privilege for Joseph. Thus it was Oliver whom Joseph chose to deliver the talk to the public, which had been invited to meet in the Peter Whitmer, Sr. home at Fayette New York on April 11 1830. Several neighbors attended that first public m... Read More

Witnesses in Utah (1829)

In 1870 Martin Harris, a witness to the 1829 printing of the Book of Mormon in Grandin's Print Shop in Palmyra arrived in Utah. But he was not the only surviving witness to that historic event to finally reach Utah. By a strange turn of events another witness, Stephen S. Harding preceded him by eight years but with a far less welcome reception. Harding, who had lived in Palmyra as a youth was visiting his old home and spent some time with his cousin editor P... Read More

First Convert Baptism (1829)
 

The story of the baptisms of Joseph and Oliver at the time of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood on May 15, 1829 is well known in LDS history. But that was only the beginning. Now the task of converting others who had not experienced the heavenly manifestations shared by the prophet and his companion began. Shortly after the visit of John the Baptist, Joseph's brother, Samuel, arrived in Harmony for a visit. Joseph wrote, "We informed him of... Read More

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