Just before the large congregation attending the final session of the semi-annual conference of the Mormons was dismissed this afternoon. President Joseph F. Smith, the head of the church ...

On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his conservative and, at times, controversial views.

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Soon afterward, a vision instructs Smith to move the nascent Mormon community west to Kirtland. Other missionaries proceed to Missouri and settle in Independence. February: Joseph and Emma Smith ...

Almost 200 years after its founder, Joseph Smith ... in the 1830s, when Smith visited the city, sent preachers here and published the third edition of the Book of Mormon, the doctrinal foundation ...