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008 Translating the Book of Mormon with Stones in a Hat?

Church History Matters

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The Story of a Seer Stone

Joseph Smith Jr. said that there was a girl in his town of Palmyra, Sally Chase, who had a green colored stone that she could see things. And when he looked in her stone, he saw another stone far off over by Lake Erie, about 150 miles away. So finally he got permission from his parents to go to Lake Erie, south side of Lake Erie. He knew right where it was. He dug down under this certain route and he pulled out the seer stone,. washed it off, placed it in his hat and he discovered what Joseph said is he discovered that time and place and distance were annihilated. That's why they wind up in court because some people are

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