We are grateful also for the Restoration of His gospel andfor the blessings we derive from the reestablishment of His Church through the Prophet Joseph Smith, who was born 210 years ago.
The Restoration started with the Prophet Joseph Smith(JS- H 1; D&C 128:20- 21) and has continued to the present through the work of the Lord's living prophets..
Two years before he died, the Prophet Joseph Smith wrote them in a letter to a newspaper editor, John Wentworth, who had asked for information about the Church.
My husband traveled with Joseph the Prophet through many of the Eastern cities, bearing testimony and collecting means toward building a temple in Kirtland, and also toward purchasing lands in Missouri.
This interdependence of men and women in accomplishing God's work through His power iscentral to the gospel of Jesus Christ restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith.
We need to have a witness that the Prophet Joseph Smith was divinely chosen and appointed by the Lord to bring about this restoration and recognize that he organized the women of the Church after the organization that existed in Christ's Church anciently.9.
The Lord told the Prophet Joseph Smith that now, meaning our day, is the eleventh hour and the last time that He will call laborers into His vineyard for the express purpose of gathering the elect from the four quarters of the earth.4.
The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that the Lord would not use“the figure of a creature of the brute creation to represent that which is much more noble, glorious and important- the glories and majesty of His kingdom.”.
In that talk he said:“In an 1831 revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord said the poor would one day see the kingdom of God coming to deliver them‘in power and great glory.'.
Today I know that my young testimony benefited greatly from the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith and many friends in the Church who knew“by the Holy Ghost… that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world”(D&C 46:13).
The Prophet Joseph Smith said that the Doctrine and Covenants is“the foundation of the Church in these last days, and a benefit to the world, showing that the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom of our Savior are again entrusted to man”(section heading for Doctrine and Covenants 70).
I believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith for many reasons, but the joy that is gives me is the best assurance I have that what I am pursuing is worth every bit of the time, energy, and effort that I have expended and will continue to expend.
In my Patriarchal blessing, given by the father of Joseph the Prophet, in Kirtland, 1837, I was told that I should preach the gospel before I was 21 years of age; that I should preach the gospel to the inhabitants upon the islands of the sea, and- to the inhabitants of the moon, even the planet you can now behold with your eyes.
Through our faith in the personal witness of the Prophet Joseph and the reality of the First Vision, through study and prayer, deep and sincere, we will be blessed with a firm faith in the Savior of the world, who spoke to Joseph“on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty”(Joseph Smith- History 1:14).
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