The Miracle of the Gulls – a timeline
July 22, 1847: The first Mormons arrive in the Salt Lake Valley. In the next couple weeks they planted crops, which
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Timeline of the Utah Mormon War
This is basically a simplified summary of the Wikipedia article, but more detailed than the timeline on the page. Super interesting
I need a source. I know Brigham Young postponed the completion of the SLC temple because of his huge salary. He died a millionaire. Does anybody have a source for this?
Curious_Mormon came to the rescue with this comment: I don’t know about the temple delay, but we have a lot
The 1879 version of the BoM claims 10-15 MILLION people died in the last Jaredite war. This would place their civilization at half the population of Rome, and left no trace of it.
Including wives and children, the numbers very probably must have been from ten to fifteen million page 606, footnote b
D&C 87 and the South Carolina Nullification Crisis
You may have heard that Joseph Smith predicted the Civil War in D&C 87. This revelation was given on 12/25/1832, and
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Undeniable proof that the Journal of Discourses (JoD) was/is an official church publication.
This was originally posted on reddit here. You may have heard that the Journal of Discourses was not an official
This is one of my favorite quotes, so I made a cool picture for it
“If a faith will not bear to be investigated; if its preachers and professors are afraid to have it examined,
Continue readingThis is one of my favorite quotes, so I made a cool picture for it
I think I just found the origin of where Kolob comes from. I may have actually found Kolob.
I’m working on a project and I have to do a lot of research on Joseph Smith Papers for it.