![]() ![]() They moved several times between villages in Vermont and New Hampshire before finding more favorable prospects in the Finger Lakes region of New York. and Lucy’s marriage, the family experienced failed harvests and economic hardship. ![]() “Words and language,” he wrote, are “inadequate to express the gratitude that I owe to God for having given me so honorable a parentage.” 2įrom the beginning of Joseph Sr. 1 Late in life, Joseph wrote poignantly of his desire that the names and deeds of his parents and siblings always be remembered. When Joseph reported visions of angels, the news delighted family members who, like Joseph’s father and mother, had already enjoyed profound spiritual experiences of their own. His attention to prayer and Bible study owed much to his parents’ religious commitments. ![]() The home life and nurture provided by Joseph Smith’s parents and siblings shaped much of Joseph’s early prophetic work. ![]()
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