A global church that traces its roots to Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. is poised to select a woman to lead it next weekend.

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Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

"There is so much good for us to do, and you are doing it so well," Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson said ...

Joseph prays and is visited three times during the night by an angel named Moroni. Moroni tells him about a hidden book and quotes scriptures from the books of Acts, Joel, Isaiah, and Malachi.

The founder and first prophet of Mormonism authored the three Mormon books. Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed he received golden plates from an angel named Moroniin 1827 containing information that ...

when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...