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Dec 22, 2020 · Emma Hale was 21 years old when she first laid eyes on Joseph Smith, Jr., then 19. She couldn’t have known what an impact this meeting would have on her life or what unique challenges they would face together as they worked to grow the fledging Church of Jesus Christ in these latter days.
Alexander Smith, another of Joseph and Emma Smith’s sons, reported that shortly before their mother Emma’s death in 1879, Emma saw a vision in which Joseph Smith escorted her through a mansion in heaven to a nursery where she cradled young Don Carlos.
- Why Write About Emma?
- Misunderstanding Emma
- Abrahamic Test of Plural Marriage
- Emma’s Charity
- Interesting Notes and Fun Facts
Reeder was working on the publication, “At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women,” a few years ago when the church’s former Relief Society general president, Linda K. Burton, said something that caused her to see Emma in a new light. “It was something we all know, but it was ‘Emma is an elect lady.’ (Doctrine and Covenants 2...
Emma’s decision to remain in Nauvoo and not follow the church west after her husband’s death might be the biggest misunderstanding people have about her, for a couple reasons, Reeder said. One is that Emma had lived her adult life moving from place to place and house to house, crossing frozen rivers and walking in lots of mud and snow. She finally ...
Having done the research, Reeder believes Joseph and Emma discussed different thoughts and ideas when plural marriage was first introduced. “I really believe that to him and her, at the beginning, it was like this expansion of the House of Israel, bringing everyone possible into that house and into that Abrahamic covenant, where they would have pos...
Despite her challenges, Emma was known to be a generous and charitable person who welcomed many less fortunate people, including single women and orphans, into her home over the years. “She wanted people to feel comfortable and feel part of a family,” Reeder said. Emma’s most charitable act may have come after she wed Lewis Bidamon, her second husb...
Emma Smith’s brothers taught her how to ride horses when she was growing up in the Susquehanna River Valley. Later in life, Emma used those equestrian skills to warn Joseph about impending danger to the gold plates and ride with him as he mustered the troops of the Nauvoo Legion. Together, they also enjoyed horse rides when they needed to get away ...
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Mar 16, 2020 · SALT LAKE CITY — What did Joseph Smith’s First Vision mean to early Latter-day Saint women? A church magazine article published by a prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April 1920, commemorating the sacred event’s centennial anniversary, offers some insight.
- ttoone@deseretnews.com
In the fall of 1831, Elsa and John Johnson opened their home in Hiram, Ohio, to Joseph and Emma Smith, setting aside an upper room as an office where Joseph and his scribes could work on his inspired translation of the Bible. 1 On February 16, 1832, as Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon pondered John 5:29, a passage regarding the resurrection, they ...
Questions. Is it true that Joseph and Emma eloped? “Owing to my continuing to assert that I had seen a vision,” Joseph explained, “persecution still followed me, and my wife’s father’s family were very much opposed to our being married.
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Mar 16, 2019 · This acclaimed film is based on the historical record of the friendship between Jane Manning, one of the first black members of the Church, and Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph. Told in the wake of Joseph Smith's assassination, Jane and Emma explores the profound relationship between these two great women and the strength and unity they ...
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