Sunday Tidbits-Lucy Mack Smith

Lucy Mack Smith

1.      When the group of Saints that Lucy Mack Smith was leading to Kirtland arrived at Fairport Harbor (just north of Kirtland), they purchased a newspaper and read what about the group?

a.      Their leaving New York to gather to Kirtland

b.      Their trail of crime from New York to Ohio

c.       Their deaths caused by the sinking of the ship that they sailed on

d.      Their eviction from the state of New York

2.      Lucy Mack Smith was noted for her zeal in preaching the gospel. In fact, on one occasion, while on a visit to her brother’s home in Michigan, she contended with her nieces pastor. Lucy Mack Smith like, she predicted what?

a.      That in three years time 1/3 of his congregation would be Mormons including his deacon

b.      That in one year’s time he would be a Mormon

c.       That he would be the next Mormon bishop

d.      That he would sit in the same councils with her son Joseph

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      The Brother of Jared’s

Two stones prepared by the Lord for interpreting languages and the instrument through which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. In Hebrew, the term “urim and Thummim” literally means “lights and perfections,” referring to the stones’ ability to bring to light hidden things of the past. These stones, or “interpreters,” as the Book of Mormon calls them, were originally given to the brother of Jared, who was commanded to seal them up with his records as a means of translating the same. The Nephite king Mosiah possessed a Urim and Thummim, the origin of which is not specified in the text. Mosiah used them to translate the twenty-four gold plates containing the history of the Jaredites. Joseph Smith possessed the stones that had been given to the brother of Jared.

 Largey, Dennis, Book of Mormon Reference Companion (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 2003), 773.