386. 15 Fascinating Facts About the Prophet Joseph Smith, from LDS Living.
From LDS Living, very interesting little-known facts about the
Prophet Joseph Smith.
1. Joseph Smith’s famous leg surgery was actually the fourth in a series of surgeries. The first surgery doctors had to lance his shoulder to drain it of infected material, the second and third times they tried to drain his leg, and the fourth time they removed the bone.
I love learning things about the Prophet Joseph Smith, because 19 of my husband Wayne's and my direct ancestors personally knew him, and believed in him, and gave up their all to follow him and his teachings. Those who survived those difficult days came to Utah as pioneers and many of their stories are in these blogs.
Prophet Joseph Smith.
15 Fascinating Facts About Joseph Smith
ADAPTED FROM WAYNE J LEWIS, JANA LEE COX & LEE NELSON IN 500 LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT JOSEPH SMITH -
Did you know Joseph Smith's famous leg surgery was the fourth in a series of surgeries? Here's a list of 15 other interesting facts about Joseph Smith.
1. Joseph Smith’s famous leg surgery was actually the fourth in a series of surgeries. The first surgery doctors had to lance his shoulder to drain it of infected material, the second and third times they tried to drain his leg, and the fourth time they removed the bone.
2. Emma wouldn’t let Joseph into the garden because people would gather just to be around him and would trample the plants.
3. The Prophet once taught that “complainers cannot be exalted.”
4. During the translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Oliver Cowdery translated about 12 pages a day.
5. Joseph Smith was often known for his sense of humor. One of the phrases Heber C. Kimball recalled him using to get people to work on something was to “Yankee doodle do it.”
6. Once, while Joseph was supposed to be in hiding, he was actually playing in the street, flying a kite with the other boys. A man came up and asked one of the boys, Charles Stoddard, where the Prophet Joseph Smith was. Charles said, “He went to heaven on Hyrum’s white horse and we are fixing this kite to send his dinner to him.”
7. He once wore Rebecca Williams’ (wife of Frederick G. Williams) dress to escape Kirtland undetected.
8. During the Ohio tarring and feathering, Joseph spoke of how his spirit left his body during the ordeal and then returned after it was over.
9. More revelations were received by Joseph Smith in an upper room of the Newel K. Whitney store than any other building or room.
10. Joseph beat Justice A. Morse (the strongest man in Ramus) at the stick pull with one hand.
9. More revelations were received by Joseph Smith in an upper room of the Newel K. Whitney store than any other building or room.
10. Joseph beat Justice A. Morse (the strongest man in Ramus) at the stick pull with one hand.
11. The Prophet owned two dogs: one named Major and a bulldog named Baker.
12. The tricky leg surgery performed on 7-year-old Joseph would not be successfully repeated until nearly a century later.
13. An assassin attempted to kill Joseph when he was 14. The shot was fired at the Prophet in a gray twilight, missing its target and hitting a nearby cow instead.
14. In 1826, the angel Moroni told Joseph that he could obtain the plates the following year if he brought “the right person” to the hill and that, when the time came, he would know who that person would be. The following year, Emma Hale accompanied Joseph to the Hill Cumorah to retrieve the plates.
15. On July 27, 1837, in Kirtland, Ohio, Joseph Smith was arrested—and released—six times that day on false charges.
I love learning things about the Prophet Joseph Smith, because 19 of my husband Wayne's and my direct ancestors personally knew him, and believed in him, and gave up their all to follow him and his teachings. Those who survived those difficult days came to Utah as pioneers and many of their stories are in these blogs.
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