What's with today's LDS youth? We used to compare our youth to Helaman's mighty Stripling Warriors, but that doesn't quite work anymore. Something about them makes them completely unique to any other previous generation of Young Men and Young … [Continue reading]
As a dad raising kids in 2018, I can't help but feel the way Joseph Smith's dad must have felt while he was raising kids way back in the early 1800's. Despite what I lack, maybe I'll get my kids in the right place at the right time. … [Continue reading]
Weak from hunger and exhaustion, members of the Willie company started from the base of Rocky Ridge early on the morning of October 23. William and Jane James, along with their children, started a little bit later because William and his oldest son, … [Continue reading]
Pictured is the reconstructed home of Joseph and Emma Smith in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Joseph and Emma Smith moved from Palmyra, New York to Harmony, Pennsylvania to escape persecution. Joseph had been commanded to continue translating the plates, … [Continue reading]
The Rockwell and Smith families were close friends while living in Manchester, New York (just outside of Palmyra). Although he was eight years younger than the Prophet no one loved Joseph Smith more than Orrin Porter Rockwell. While serving … [Continue reading]