First Vision

This is the biography of a contested memory, how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it. It''s the story of the story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began. Joseph Smith, the church''s founder, remembered that his first audible prayer, uttered in spring of 1820 when he was about fourteen, was answered with a vision of heavenly beings. Appearing to the bo...