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What is an ax.
This hand tool was wedged in a stump nearby when Joseph decided to offer a prayer in what is now called "The Sacred Grove."
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What is a small stone?
Joseph found this while helping dig a well. Looking into it, he saw things invisible to the natural eye.
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Who is Emma Hale.
Moroni asked Joseph to pick a person to go with him to the Hill Cumorah. Alvin was probably his first choice, but Alvin died. The person was his second choice.
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What is a dislocated thumb.
The injury Joseph suffered after fending off three attackers.
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What is his wife Emma.
In a matter of weeks, Joseph had lost the manuscript, his first child, and he nearly lost his ______________.
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“What church shall I join?”
The question Joseph asked when Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father appeared to him.
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What is seventeen.
Joseph was this age when the Angel Moroni first appeared to him after pleading for forgiveness and further guidance.
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What is the seer stone.
What Joseph used to find out who should accompany him to the Hill Cumorah.
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Who is Charles Anthon, a professor of Latin and Greek at Columbia College.
Joseph copied characters off the plates, wrote down his translation, then had Martin Harris deliver them to this professor.
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What is a vision of the gold plates and Joseph’s efforts to translate them.
When Oliver Cowdery prayed in private to know if the golden plates were true, he was shown this in a vision.
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What is James 1:5
The New Testament verse that prompted Joseph to seek answers in the Sacred Grove.
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What is the Golden Plates and two seer stones -- the Urim and Thummim,
Items that Moroni told Joseph were buried in a nearby hill.
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What is three.
When Joseph was finally given permission to retrieve the plates, he went at midnight. The number of men who attacked him that night.
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What is -- there are no such thing as angels. "I cannot read a sealed book."
After ripping up a certificate of authentication, the professor told this to Martin Harris.
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What is a single seer stone in the bottom of a hat.
Joseph used this besides the translators (Urim and Thummim) to help him translate the writings on the golden plates.
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What is angry and defensive. Said it was of the devil.
One of the first persons Joseph told about his vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ was a preacher. This was the preacher's reaction.
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What is his father.
The person Moroni told Joseph he should tell about his visions.
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What is a hollow log.
The first place Joseph hid the plates after obtaining them.
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What is 116.
The number of pages lost when the manuscript fell out of Martin Harris' possession.
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What is not cultivating and practicing the skill. He thought it would happen instantly.
Oliver was told he could translate like Joseph if he had faith. Yet he failed. This is why he failed.
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What is "persecute."
“Why _________ me for telling the truth?”
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What is three. Each time he reached for them, he was shocked.
During Joseph's first visit to the Hill Cumorah, he found the plates. The number of times he tried to remove them on his first visit.
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What is looking into the Urim and Thummim.
The method Joseph used to determine if the golden plates were safe.
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What are the interpreters (Urim and Thummim).
After praying three times for permission to hand over the manuscript, the answer was yes. Once Martin Harris had the manuscript, Moroni immediately asked Joseph for this.
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What is, the Lord reminded Oliver of the night that his prayers concerning the plates were answered.
Oliver was given a witness (things which no man knoweth) from the Lord. This was the witness.
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What is baptism.
While translating the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Oliver learned of the appearance of Jesus Christ at the temple in a city called Bountiful. These verses inspired them to ask the Lord more about this principle of the gospel.
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