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Mormons Moving to Salt Lake City During the nineteenth century there were many different types of people moving west over America. One of these groups was the religious group, the Mormons. The religion was originally founded by Joseph Smith in the early nineteenth century. He first started of with very few followers but quickly many people started to come round to Smiths way of thinking. After developing the religion in Palmyra, Joseph Smith and his followers moved to

manuscript. It was not recovered, and the plates were lost for a few years. Finally, years later (with the help of Oliver Cowdery) the translation begun again. On March 26, 1830, the Book of Mormon was published to the public, available for purchase. Eleven days later, the Church was organized, in which, “The sacrament was administered, believers were baptized, the gift of the Holy Ghost was bestowed, and men were ordained to the priesthood.” (lds.org) Joseph Smith was established as the leader of the Church

Introduction: The idea of playing sports both collegiately and professionally is dreamed by many children, students, and individuals as they grow up learning and playing the different sports that they come to love. However, this dream ultimately becomes shattered when the realization that they are not good to play and compete at the next level. In some ways, this system provides an essential lesson that people need to know throughout life, and that is not everyone is going to be good enough and

An open letter to friends and family: A Brief Intro/Background This letter will no doubt be hard for many of you to read, I empathize as it was also hard to write. I beg your patience and hope you read through to the end. What I would like to convey to you is my recent shift in world view. That is to say that I recently came to realize that I am an atheist. This is likely shocking to most of you. Let me be clear by what I intend to convey by identifying as such. I do not mean to say I am opposed

Narrative The Newest Member “Who thought the baptism water would be as cold as an ice bath?” Much like anyone growing up in Las Vegas, or otherwise known as “Sin City,” we have always been surrounded by people from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Those people are commonly known as “Mormons.” Boy, let me tell you, there are Mormons everywhere in Vegas! There was always something about them that made me interested. There was a light as bright as the sun that always shined from them. They

Heritage Assessment and Family Diversity Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 03/08/2014 Growing up, it never was as apparent that the families and friends that you associated with shared different beliefs, were from different cultures, and were just different from you and from your family. Children do not tend to recognize such differences, but as growing adults it becomes ever apparent that being “different” and accepting these differences is just a part of life. Perhaps kids

differs from traditional religions such as Christianity. As with any religion, one of the most important pieces to learn is how the religion was created and who played an important part in doing so. Mormonism, also known as the Church of the Latter-Day Saints came about in 1830. Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith, in the 19th century in Western New York. This was a major period of religious awakening for America. When Joseph was only 14 years old, he asked God for guidance, as he was confused with

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been the center of much attention throughout modern history, whether it be about the polygamists, the Book of Mormon, or Joseph Smith seeing God, or the restored priesthood. Though the church is known to have these forms of controversies, we see through history that no organization or group is free from mistakes and criticism. Throughout history in general, there has always been some sort of religious contention around the globe. A large point of

I my own religion, which was featured in the readings, which is obviously most interesting to me, and would like to take the opportunity to correct the record of information provided about my religion; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With very little effort I was able to determine that the majority of the information provided was not from scholarly works but from anti-Mormon campaigns and literature, which motivations are to misrepresent, confuse, and misdirect. I struggle to find

Technology in the Church One of the recent changes in the Church is how much more we are using technology. For a long time technology was categorized as something of the world and “bad.” We were not supposed to use it very much because many church leaders warned about all of the dangers that could come from the use of it. Today, technology has become even faster paced, and people from all over the world can communicate with each other in a matter of seconds. You no longer have to wait three weeks