A Star For Every Saint - The Life Of Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith is described as “an authentic religious genius”, having founded the only documented religion totally formed by man. What Smith created was The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or simply Mormonism. Through a series of encounters God revealed himself to Joseph, telling him that all religions since the death of Christ’s disciples had strayed from the True Church of Christ. It was set upon Joseph to restore the True Church.
Joseph Smith was born in 1805 in Sharon, Vermont. While he was still a baby, his family moved to Palmyra, New York, an area where Protestant revivals were frequent. Here he spent most of his childhood with his 9 other brothers and sisters. The revivals he witnessed made him question which religion was right, but he never wondered if they were all wrong.
Joseph’s first encounter with the Father and Son (implied as God and Jesus, though not directly stated) was in a grove near his family’s Vermont farm at age fourteen. He w...