Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History Aug 14-20

August 17, 1835 – At a general assembly of the Church, held at Kirtland, the Book of Doctrine and Covenants was approved, and thus became a law of

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History Aug 7-13

Aug 8, 1839 – Elders Woodruff and Taylor leave Nauvoo to start on their mission to England. Aug 7, 1841 – Don Carlos Smith, the Prophet Joseph’s youngest

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History Aug 1-7

August 2, 1831 – The Saints commenced erecting houses in Jackson County, the first log being laid in Kaw Township, twelve miles southwest of Independence. The log was

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History July 25-31

July 27, 1840 -Apostle John Taylor sailed from Liverpool for Ireland to open the door of the gospel in that country. July 30, 1844 – Samuel H. Smith,

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History July 16-24

July 21, 1844 – Addison Pratt baptized four white men and four natives on the island of Tubuai. These natives, whose names were Nabota and his wife Telii,

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History June 9-15

July 10, 1804 – Emma Hale Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith and first president of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society, is born in Harmony, Pennsylvania. July

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History July 1-8

July 2, 1844 – Apostle John Taylor was brought home to Nauvoo from Carthage. July 3, 1835 – Michael H. Chandler arrives in Kirtland, Ohio, to display four

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History June 15-30

June 26, 1829 – Egbert B. Grandin prints the title page of the Book of Mormon in the Wayne Sentinel, a paper published in Palmyra, NY, as a

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History June 8-14

June 12, 1831 – John Whitmer, called as Church historian, begins to write a history of the Church he calls the Book of John Whitmer. June 1839 –

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Glimpse of the Past – LDS Church History June 1-7

June 1828 – Martin Harris lost the manuscript which he had obtained contrary to the will of the Lord. It consisted of 116 written pages translated from the

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