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Join us today as we begin our study of this week's Come Follow Me materials with the earliest recorded revelation we have given to Joseph. We consider the role Martin Harris played in the early stages of the Book of Mormon and we reflect on the lessons we learn from the 'lost' 116 pages of the Book of Mormon. 

Revelations in Context: He at last entered, and having little appetite for the dinner they had prepared for him, he soon “pressed his hands upon his temples and cried out in a tone of deep anguish, ‘Oh! I have lost my soul!’” Joseph understood immediately what had happened. He demanded that Martin return and look again for the manuscript, but Martin insisted that further searching would be in vain.

Exhausted and discouraged, Joseph returned to Harmony and, walking a short distance from his home, prayed for mercy. The angel appeared and gave again to Joseph the Urim and Thummim, or interpreters, that Joseph had originally received with the plates but had lost for having “wearied the Lord in asking that Martin Harris might take the writings.” Using the Urim and Thummim, Joseph received the earliest of his revelations for which a text survives.