How It Started In The 1820s
It all began in the 1820s; 14-years old Joseph Smith, who grew perplexed about the many different branches of the Christian religion, claimed that Jesus came to him in a divine vision and revealed that none of the existing sects Christianity was genuinely correct.
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Three years after this revelation, Smith also claimed to have been visited by an angel who sent him on a mission. The mission was to locate an ancient book engraved on golden plates. This book was the gospel of a group of people who formerly lived in the area in the ancient past. Smith built his lessons on this foundation. In 1830, Joseph established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons).