On a spring morning in 1820, Joseph Smith went out to the woods near his home. He had for sometime been confused about which church he should join. He walked a way into the woods and knelt down and began to pray. As he was praying some evil power seemed to come and make it so he could not speak. He felt frightened and felt as though someone were watching him. He began to feel hopeless, and in the height of it all he cried out to God to save him. Immediately the darkness went away and the evil spirit and a light came down that was so bright it a almost blinded him. He realized the light rested upon "two personages, who brightness and glory defied all description. Standing in the air one of them spoke to the other and said, 'this is my beloved son, hear him.'"
It was Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ. They came to
Joseph in answer to his prayer. They told him he must not join any church, and that they did not contain the fullness of the gospel. He said they drew near unto him with their lips, but their hearts were far from him.
Joseph listened with his whole soul.
Later that night, as he was in bed, an angel came and told him a message of a record in the hill near his house. The Angels name was Moroni. Moroni came back four times that night delivering the same message each time.
The next morning Joseph was existed. Moroni told him to tell his father, but Joseph was a afraid that he wouldn't believe. Joseph's father notices he was tired from staying up all night, he told Joseph to go back to bed. As Joseph was climbing a fence on his way back he fell and fainted. Again Moroni appeared to him. Moroni relayed the message then told Joseph to tell his father. Joseph went back after he had come to, and told his father all.
Just as the angel had said he would, his father believed.
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