In January of 1827, Joseph Smith was getting ready to ask Emma Hale to become his wife.
In the previous years, he had been visited by the Angel Moroni and had knelt at the spot where the promised plates were deposited. He had watched his beloved elder brother Alvin die suddenly and painfully in 1823 and was keeping Alvin's last loving counsel: “Do everything that lies in your power to obtain the record. Be faithful in receiving instruction and in keeping every commandment that is given you” (see “The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith By His Mother”).
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