The Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith met with Moroni over a period of four years to prepare to translate the plates. He allegedly did this by peering inside of a hat and using a set of seer stones to illuminate the Reformed Egyptian characters on the plates. Smith would then dictate the translation of what he saw to ascribe. In 1828, a wealthy farmer named Martin Harris offered to help Smith in the translation process,. But Harris lost 116 pages of the translated manuscript Smith gave him. Smith claimed God was angry about the loss of the pages and would now only let Joseph Smith translate from another set of golden plates. These plates told the same story as the original plates he translated, but from a slightly different