Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mor...

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