In 1 Nephi 1:9-10, when Lehi had his vision of heaven, “he saw One descending out of the midst of heaven, and he beheld that his luster was above that of the sun at noon-day. And he also saw twelve others following him, and their brightness did exceed that of…

What did the lost 116 pages contain? They contained the Book of Lehi and the first two chapters of the Book of Mosiah. Those chapters in Lehi probably told us part of Lehi’s life from before he left Jerusalem and part of the family’s trip into the wilderness, from Lehi’s…

In A Brief Explanation of The Book of Mormon, it says that the Book of Mormon was compiled from four plates: the Small Plates of Nephi, the Plates of Mormon, the Plates of Ether, and the Plates of Brass. What parts of the Book of Mormon had which plates? The…

The angel Moroni talked to Joseph Smith three times that night, and once again the next day. Why? I think it was because Joseph Smith needed to remember EVERYTHING Moroni told him, and if Moroni told Joseph only once, he wouldn’t have remembered it all. Moroni also had Joseph come…

In Joseph Smith–History, he said that Moroni quoted some scriptures differently from “what it says in our Bibles.” Why? Because the King James version of the Bible is not translated correctly. The eighth article of faith says, “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as…

The prophet Joseph Smith, in his testimony, said that the Plates, Urim, and Thummim were in the hill with ‘other things’, including a breastplate. I can probably find out what those ‘other things’ were in the end of Moroni, when he buries the Plates. At the end of Moroni, however,…

As their testimony says, the Eight Witnesses gave their ‘names unto the world’. That means that they are telling the world that they saw and felt the plates. They are bearing record to us that Joseph Smith did have the plates and translated them. I think that it is very…

In The Testimony of Three Witnesses, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris tell us that they saw the plates, “through the grace of God the Father.” That teaches us that God is graceful. Later on, they mention the “judgment-seat of Christ,” so now I know that Jesus will judge…

The Introduction to The Book of Mormon teaches us many things, such as that Jesus is the Messiah and will come again. Joseph Smith also tells us that we can get more like and closer to God by following what it says ‘than by any other book.’ It says gives…

When I read the Title Page of The Book of Mormon, I want to learn more about the stories it mentions, such as how ‘the people of Jared … were scattered [when] the Lord [mixed-up] the language of the people’ and about the prophecies and revelations that are in the…