This Used To Count As Home Teaching

The golden plates are one of the coolest pieces of the restoration. He was told about them years before he received them. He told others who told others and soon the countryside was all a-whisper with talk of the gold bible. And then he got them. And no one else could see them, which admittedly sounds suspicious. And it was a tremendous burden on Smith.   And then he could show people. There were the three witnesses – shown the plates by Moroni, the second abridger of the sacred record, now a resurrected angel. Smith was so relieved that he could barely contain himself. – his mother gives this description of the immediate aftermath of the three witness experience: “When they returned to the house it was between three and four o'clock p.m. Mrs. Whitmer, Mr. Smith [Lucy’s husband, Joseph’s father] and myself, were sitting in a bedroom at the time. On coming in, Joseph threw himself down beside me, and exclaimed, "Father, mother, you do not know how ha...