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21: Nauvoo, the City Beautiful

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Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

21: Nauvoo, the City Beautiful

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If you visit Nauvoo today (2020s), you’ll see a small agrarian town. But in its heyday when it was the gathering place for the saints, it was a thriving center of religious, civic, business and cultural life, whose population briefly rivaled that of Chicago. In this episode Susan tells us some fascinating facts about life […]

5: Emma Smith

Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

5: Emma Smith

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Emma’s birth in Harmony, PA (1804), her father Isaac Hale, family more well-to-do than Smiths, meets Joseph, they elope, she has 11 children in all, 5 of which live to maturity, accompanies Joseph to Hill Cumorah, writes for Joseph as he translates plates until Oliver Cowdery is sent, testifies of veracity of Book of Mormon,