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647. What Heber C. Kimball Saw the Night Joseph Smith Received the Book of Mormon Plates

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This is another fascinating look into Church History. What Heber C. Kimball Saw  the Night Joseph Smith Received the Book of Mormon Plates by History of the Saints (Sponsored)  | Jun. 04, 2015 Makes You Think Late one fall evening after Heber and Vilate Kimball had retired to their bed, they were awakened suddenly by a urgent knocking at their door. A neighbor, John Greene, who lived just 100 steps away, stood at the door and bade them come out and behold the scenery in the heavens.” They did so, and it was a beautiful starlit night, so exceptionally clear and brilliant that Heber said he could “see to pick up a pin.” As the little group watched, a white smoke formed on the eastern horizon, and slowly began to rise upward. As it did so, it formed itself into a belt spreading across the sky toward the southwest, and it was accompanied by the sound of a rushing mighty wind. Gradually, that belt flattened out and broadened across into a bow—l