This Sunday, July 10th, is Emma Smith’s, the wife of the prophet Joseph Smith, 207th birthday. Since she is one of the only women mentioned in the scriptures whose birthday we know I thought that it would be nice to have a birthday celebration for her the next few days on my blog. Before and…
This is the best vignette on Emma Smith I’ve EVER seen. Take a moment to watch it, you won’t regret it, but just make sure you have a tissue nearby. What an incredible woman. Don’t forget about the present for Emma this Sunday, July 1oth!
Thank you to everyone who participated in Emma Smith’s birthday gift this week! I loved reading your testimonies and am so grateful you shared them. If you didn’t get a chance to share yours on Emma’s birthday find a chance to sometime before her next one! To finish off Emma Smith’s birthday celebration I have…
Next Tuesday, July 10th is Emma Smith’s, the wife of the prophet Joseph Smith, 208th birthday. She is one of the only women mentioned in the scriptures whose birthday we know and so last year I did a week long birthday celebration for her. It was a powerful experience for me to reflect and ponder…
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When I was about 10-years-old I went with my Grandmother to the Church Office Building where she was working as a missionary. I waited in the lobby for her while she did some work and I picked up an old issue of the Ensign magazine. I flipped through it and landed on an article entitled…
In the final days of Emma’s life her son Alexander recorded that she had a remarkable dream. In Gracia N. Jone’s article, “My Great-Great Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith” she wrote: “A granddaughter, Emma Belle Smith Kennedy, remembers Emma: “Her eyes were brown and sad. She would smile with her lips but to me, as small…
Today is Emma Smith’s 208th birthday. When I thought about what she might most appreciate as a gift the thought came powerfully to me that what she would want is to hear people bear testimony of The Book of Mormon. Emma literally sacrificed everything she had, her family, her home, her children, her physical comfort,…
Today is Emma Hale Smith’s 207th birthday! I really appreciate everyone who has participated in her birthday celebration this week. It has been a really wonderful experience. I mentioned before that I’d like to give Emma a birthday present this year and that as I pondered on what she’d appreciate most I felt like she…
This is my last post for Emma Smith’s Birthday Celebration and I just wanted to thank everyone who has participated by sharing their testimonies of Emma and The Book of Mormon. I have loved reading them and I hope that the posts last week have given you a new appreciation and understanding of Emma Smith…
Today’s post for Emma Smith’s Birthday celebration is the second half of Shantel Gardner’s posts on the life of Emma Smith. If you missed the first half make sure you go back and read it. I am so grateful that she was willing to share her expertise with us. Also don’t forget about the present…
I am pleased to have Shantel Gardner, a descendant of Emma and Joseph Smith, share today’s post for Emma Smith’s Birthday celebration. Shantel has spent years studying Emma and I’ve loved reading her insights into Emma’s life. She shares so many little tidbits about Emma that I’ve never heard before. Hope you enjoy it and…
As I was getting ready for Emma Smith’s birthday celebration I stumbled onto the story of Kimberly Jo Smith, a great- great granddaughter of Joseph an Emma Smith, and her conversion to the LDS church. I was so incredibly touched by what she wrote, especially when she wrote of seeing the portraits of Joseph and…
This is the first post for Emma Smith’s Birthday Celebration this week. I am excited to share the interview I had with Mark Staker who is a Senior Researcher at in the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Library . For the last eight years he has done in-depth research on the life of…
One of the stories that impressed me the most about Emma was her interactions with the gold plates from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. In September of 1826, Joseph went for a meeting with the angel Moroni on the Hill Cumorah not far from his house. When he had met with the…