The Doyle family home in Provo features a unique centerpiece on the dining room wall: a large hooked rug, depicting a 14-year-old Joseph Smith praying in the Sacred Grove, just before his First ...

Mormon founder Joseph Smith was 14 years old when he said the God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in response to a prayer 200 years ago. Ever since, teenagers have played key roles in ...

A granite obelisk rises 38.5 feet above the dark green woods of Sharon, a small town on the White River in Vermont. Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor ...

History of Joseph Smith, Jr., by himself, in Joseph Smith's Letter Book at Kirtland, November 27, 1832 to August 4, 1835 (Church Historian's Library, Salt Lake City, Utah). History of the Prophet ...

Joseph then goes to that spot on the hill -- it's not far from where the Smith family farm was -- and he locates the place there on the hill, and the plates are under a rock, which he'd seen very ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A scene from a cartoon released by the church to teach children about the faith’s history of polygamy shows church founder Joseph Smith praying.

Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy ... Just a few days later Mary and her mother attended an evening prayer gathering with other Saints at Joseph’s house.

His parents, Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, ... She later wrote that she spent her adolescence “reading the Bible and praying” outside of an organized church. While living in Tunbridge, ...