The Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith

M. Russell Ballard October 1991 Saturday Morning Session

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  1. Doctrine and Covenants 135:3

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    Each person who has a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ should love and appreciate Joseph Smith, Jr., for he is “the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, [who] has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it” (D&C 135:3).

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  2. 1 Nephi 1:1

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    The ancient prophet Nephi wrote that he was “born of goodly parents” (1 Ne.

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  3. 2 Nephi 3:15

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    The Lord foreordained his father, Joseph Smith, Sr., who is spoken of in the holy scriptures, to be one of the earthly parents of the Prophet.

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  4. Psalms 84

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    “I do not know that any man among the Saints was more loved than Father Smith; and when any one was seriously sick Father Smith would be called for, whether it was night or day.

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  5. Doctrine and Covenants 124:19

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    Just a few months after Joseph Smith, Sr., passed from this life, the Lord revealed that the Prophet’s father was in His presence, and “blessed and holy is he, for he is mine” (D&C 124:19).

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  6. Doctrine and Covenants 124:15

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    Hyrum: “Blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right before me, saith
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  7. Psalms 23

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    “I thank God that I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled [the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated], and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast; and I can assure my beloved brethren that I was enabled to bear as strong a testimony, when nothing but death presented itself, as ever I did in my life” (“Communications,” Times and Seasons, Dec.

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  8. Mark 15

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    From the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum, we can learn many valuable lessons.

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