In this month's message from the Pacific Area Presidency, Elder F. Michael Watson of the 1st Quorum of the Seventy writes about the founder and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith Jr.
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Since the establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830, 16 men have served as the president of the Church.
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Joseph Smith Jr. was born 23 December 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. Born into a poor farming family, he was the fifth child of 11 — nine of whom survived childhood.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formally organized in a small log cabin in upstate New York in 1830. It took 117 years — until 1947 — for the Church to grow from the initial six members to one million.
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Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was the founding prophet and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Papers project is an effort to gather together all available documents produced by Joseph Smith himself or by others he appointed as scribes.
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