Missouri Mob and Amanda Barnes Smith Prayer
To watch on Youtube click here: https://youtu.be/dGcaq1ASIOc To listen on Spotify click here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2n2V07VGyDbElxdsGyr1Ai?si=hVigzusLQi-w4rBbvt4_zw " . . . those five weeks . . . I was a prisoner with my wounded boy in Missouri, near the scene of the massacre, unable to obey the order of extermination [for Mormons to leave the state or be […]
Amanda Barnes Smith Haun’s Mill Massacre Miracle
art by Julie Rogers To watch on Youtube click here: https://youtu.be/dGcaq1ASIOc To listen on Spotify click here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2n2V07VGyDbElxdsGyr1Ai?si=hVigzusLQi-w4rBbvt4_zw Amanda Barnes Smith, an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ faced some of the greatest trails a person could withstand. Amanda knew that "with God all is possible". It was 1838 in Hawn’s Mill, Missouri […]
President Heber J. Grant
Heber J. Grant was the 7th Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Heber was the first prophet of the Church to be born in Utah. He was born in Salt Lake City on November 22, 1856 to Jedediah Morgan Grant and Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant. Heber’s father, Jedediah Morgan Grant, was […]
Fresno California Temple
The Fresno California Temple was the fourth temple built in the state of California and the first built in the Central Valley of California. The Fresno California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was announced by President Gordon B. Hinckley in 1999, but plans for the temple originated in 1997 when […]
Harry S. Truman and the Latter-Day Saints
If you travel to Jackson County Missouri you can stop at the Jackson County Courthouse, also known as the Truman Courthouse for Harry S. Truman the 33rd President of the United States. He served as President of the United States from 1945 to 1953. In the court house you are able see the offices President […]
Overview of the Missouri Years
Move to Missouri The Latter-Day Saints, led by the Prophet Joseph Smith, lived and used Kirtland Ohio as the Headquarters of the Church, for seven years. While in Kirtland, the Prophet Joseph Smith received revelations informing the Saints they would not stay permanently in Ohio. The Lord told the Saints that there is another place […]
Troost Park Monument in Kansas City, Missouri
The Troost Park Monument marks the first log schoolhouse/church built in Jackson County Missouri. On August 2, 1831 the Prophet Joseph Smith assisted the Colesville Saints in laying the foundation, placing the first log for the foundation of the school/church and also the start of building Zion in Missouri. A ten inch oak tree was […]
Zions Camp Memorials in Independence Missouri and Paris, Illinois
Zion’s Camp Historical Marker Zions camp was a powerful account of men willing to defend their families and the families of other member of the Latter-day Saint church when they had been attacked by Missouri mob men. Under the direction of Joseph Smith, a band, of about 200 men from left from Kirtland Ohio to […]
Brigham Young’s Birthplace Monument
President Brigham Young, the second Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was born in Whitingham, Vermont on June 1,1801. Read more about Brigham Young here. The monument was erected in the 1950’s and President George Albert Smith dedicated the monument. At the unveiling a member representing the township said this about […]
Joseph’s Kirtland Ohio Accomplishments
To listen on Spotify click here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/m415oDf69Jb There was extraordinary growth, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, during the Kirtland Era. The Prophet Joseph Smith too grew exponentially in Kirtland. Joseph Smith grew in his abilities and his confidence as a Prophet of God and as a man. Here are some of […]