" By 1939, even George D. Pyper, an LDS Sunday School superintendent and manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, found it " surprising that none of the first song writers wrote intimately of the first vision.

Erastus Snow, an early Mormon Apostle, wrote “’ do you mean we should understand that Deity consists of a man and woman ?’ Most certainly I do.

Fawn Brodie wrote in her biography of Smith that it " may never be proved that Joseph saw View of the Hebrews before writing the Book of Mormon, but the striking parallelisms between the two books hardly leave a case for mere coincidence.

Bruce R. McConkie famous Latter-day Saint scholar and an apostle wrote in his work Mormon Doctrine regarding the subject.

Paul Toscano is a Salt Lake City attorney who co-authored with Margaret Merrill Toscano a controversial book, Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology ( 1990 ), and, in 1992, co-founded The Mormon Alliance ; he later wrote the book The Sanctity of Dissent ( 1994 ) and its sequel The Sacrament of Doubt ( 2007 ).

Mormon wrote to the leader of the Lamanites to ask that he may gather his " people unto the land of Cumorah, by a hill which was called Cumorah, and there we could give them battle.

During this process, he wrote, " Omer ... passed by the hill of Shim, and came over by the place where the Nephites were destroyed ," and "... it came to pass that the army of Coriantumr did pitch their tents by the hill Ramah ; and it was that same hill where my father Mormon did hide up the records unto the Lord, which were sacred.

He was not a Mormon, and Adams herself once wrote of her father as having been a " gentile ".

He wrote and presented several BBC1 documentaries under the title Robinson's Travels, among them The Mormon Trail ( 1976 ), Cruising and Indian Journey.

He even wrote a novel based on the Book of Mormon, which in dramatized form may have been briefly produced on Broadway.

Although Roberts continued to testify to the truth of The Book of Mormon, a foundational work of Mormonism, he also wrote three studies, unpublished until 1985, that wrestled with Book of Mormon problems.

Finally, Roberts wrote " A Parallel ," a condensed version of his larger study, which demonstrated eighteen points of similarity between the two books, and in which he reflected that the imaginative Joseph Smith might have written The Book of Mormon without divine assistance.

Llewellyn Harris, a Welsh-American Mormon missionary who visited the Zuni in 1878, wrote that they had many Welsh words in their language, and that they claimed their descent from the " Cambaraga "— white men who had come by sea 300 years before the Spanish.

Omni wrote the first three verses of the Book of Omni before passing the responsibility of keeping the Book of Mormon record to his son, Amaron.

" If you believe my testimony to the Book of Mormon ," wrote Whitmer, " if you believe that God spake to us three witnesses by his own voice, then I tell you that in June, 1838, God spake to me again by his own voice from the heavens and told me to ' separate myself from among the Latter Day Saints, for as they sought to do unto me, so it should be done unto them.

He wrote in his official report that the " statement which has from time to time appeared ( or been copied ) in various newspapers ... charging the Mormons or Mormon authorities with instigating the Indians to, if not actually aiding them in, the murder of Captain Gunnison and his associates, is, I believe, not only entirely false, but there is no accidental circumstance connected with it affording the slightest foundation for such a charge.

McConkie once wrote to a Mormon scholar in 1980, " It is my province to teach to the Church what the doctrine is.

Eighty years ago Hodgkin wrote: " The Hungarian traditions no more fully illustrate the history of Attila than the Book of Mormon illustrates the history of the Jews.

Dutcher produced, wrote, directed and starred in this film about Mormon missionaries, focusing on a Mormon elder determined to finish his two-year mission even though he is dying of brain cancer.

He may have been best known as the announcer for the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word: he wrote, produced, and announced the radio broadcasts, including a short inspirational message.

Widtsoe wrote Seven Claims of the Book of Mormon: A Collection of Evidences with Franklin S. Harris, Jr.

And ashamed to be the Jack Mormon that I am.

In the Book of Mormon, Lamanites are described as having a " skin of blackness " caused by God's curse on the descendants of Laman for their wickedness and corruption: " And he had caused the cursing to come upon Lamanites, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

And the city of Zarahemla did take fire .” The Book of Mormon indicates that “ the great city of Zarahemla ” was rebuilt sometime in the first century A. D. As his doomed nation retreated northward from their enemies, the 4th century prophet and historian Mormon recorded that Nephite “ towns, and villages, and cities were burned with fire .”

And ashamed to be the Jack Mormon that I am.

“ And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon ( for thus were they called ) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, … what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord …?” ()

*( Moroni thought to be the angel bringing the gospel in the form of the Book of Mormon ) – " And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

* Exploring Mormon Thought: The Problems With Theism And the Love of God ( March 2006 ) ISBN 1-58958-095-8

The Jello stereotype developed during a time when the Mormon church, lead by Gordon B. Hinckley, more actively engaged with wider society, such as by giving interviews with the press.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

) The twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, Bountiful, British Columbia, and sites in Mexico are historic locations of several Mormon Fundamentalist sects. Mormon fundamentalist leaders and individuals have been charged under Mann when " wives " are transported across the Utah-Arizona state line or the U. S .– Canadian and U. S .– Mexican borders.

However, when Mormon apostle Wilford Woodruff spoke to a small congregation in the Iona area on June 17, 1884, he said:

In the fall of 1859, the Mormon Colony was forced to abandon Genoa when the town and surrounding area were incorporated into the newly created Pawnee Reservation.

Brigham Young assured the demise of Corinne when he and the Mormon people built the narrow-gauge Utah Northern Railroad from Ogden to Franklin, Idaho.

Panguitch was first settled in March 1864, when Jens Nielsen, a Danish convert to the Mormon faith, led a group of pioneers eastward from Parowan and Beaver to the Sevier River.

In 1865 Utah's Black Hawk War erupted when an incident between a Manti resident and a young chieftain exploded into open warfare between the Mormon settlers and the local Native Americans.

President Buchannan, anticipating Mormon opposition to a newly appointed governor to replace Brigham Young, dispatched 2, 500 federal troops to Utah to seat the new governor, thus setting in motion a series of unfortunate misunderstandings when the Mormons felt threatened in light of their past history.

The Mormon settlement of Utah began in July 1847, when pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.

Even in 19th century North America, when by the decree of the President of the United States, Brigham Young, the Mormon hierarch and head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was appointed first Governor of the Utah Territory on 28 September 1851, this was called ( politically, not in law ) establishing a semi-theocratic ( theodemocratic ) form of government there ( until the Utah War ) as an imperium in imperio, within the limits of the republic.

It has been speculated that Enoch led Young to instigate the ban against black men holding Mormon priesthood when Enoch L. Lewis married a white Mormon woman, Mary Matilda Webster, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 18, 1846.

Trinity is about to be happily married to the two Mormon sisters when he learns to his horror that being a married Mormon means actually having to work.

The English version adds a loud clap of thunder when the head Mormon remarks about God helping them through sending them the two brothers to protect them whilst the thunder is not on the Italian soundtrack.

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi also emphasizes that after the law of Moses was " fulfilled in Christ ," the Nephites " need not harden their hearts against him when the law ought to be done away ," understanding that the law of Moses would be fulfilled through Christ's atonement and resurrection, as He also taught.

The book takes its title from part of a speech given by Taylor on January 4, 1880 in defense of the Mormon practice of polygamy: " We believe in honesty, morality, and purity ; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit.

Thiebaud was born to Mormon parents in Mesa, Arizona, U. S. A .. His family moved to Long Beach, California when he was six months old.

It has been noted by several LDS and non-LDS scholars that the LDS expression of this widely-held Christian doctrine is often misrepresented and misunderstood when applied to Mormon Christians.

Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon colonies in Mexico ; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee back to the United States when he was a child.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it