By the numbers
The total number of official or "special" witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
What is eleven (11)?
"He has [the gold plates] in his charge until this day."
Who is Moroni?
The tree of life in Lehi's dream represents this, "the most desirable above all things."
What is the love of God?
"I, Nephi, having been born of _________ parents . . . ."
What is "goodly"?
This man prayed all day and into the night while going "to hunt beasts in the forests."
Who is Enos?
The number of times the angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith on the evening/morning of September 21-22, 1823, to tell him about the gold plates and Joseph's future role in translating them.
What is four (4)?
The ancient American prophet-historian who abridged the records of the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites into the Book of Mormon we have today.
Who is Mormon?
The rod of iron represents this, which is synonymous with the scriptures, General Conference talks, personal revelation through the Spirit, etc. (Another name for Jesus, too.)
What is the word of God?
"And it came to pass that I beheld a tree, whose fruit was desirable to make one _________."
What is "happy"?
Nephi urges us to do this "always, and not faint."
What is pray?
85 pages in 85 days is a reminder of how long it took Joseph Smith to do this.
What is translate the Book of Mormon?
The Book of Mormon was published in this year, the same year the Church was organized, and 10 years after Joseph Smith's First Vision.
What is 1830?
The great and spacious building, "filled with people . . . mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who . . . were partaking of the fruit," represents this. (Not to be confused with a group of large cats.)
What is the pride of the world?
"When a man speaketh by the power of the _________ the power of the _________ carrieth it unto the hearts of the children of men." (Same thing.)
What is "Holy Ghost"?
In the 1 Nephi 1, after Lehi prays "with all his heart, in behalf of his people," it says "there came a pillar of _______."
What is fire?
Lehi and his family left Jerusalem in this year, roughly 2,400 years before Joseph Smith translated the record of their leaving.
What is 600 BC?
Name one of the other things in the stone box that contained the gold plates, according to Joseph Smith.
What is the Urim and Thummim or breastplate?
Throughout Nephi's vision of the Savior's life, he repeatedly refers to Jesus as this. (Think young "wooly.")
What is the Lamb of God?
"And now, if [Christ], he being holy, should have need to be baptized by water, to fulfill all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being ________, to be baptized, yea, even by water!"
What is "unholy"?
The man who invited Lehi to follow him in dream wore this. Moroni, when he visited Joseph Smith as a resurrected being, wore one too.
What is a robe?
The Book of Mormon is made up of this many parts, known (with one exception) as books, usually named after their principal author.
What is fifteen (15)?
One of the three men who served as both a scribe and an official witness of the Book of Mormon.
Who is __________ (Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, John Whitmer)?
Nephi's first 'tour guide' during his vision in 1 Nephi 11, who he describes as being "in the form of a man" and "he spake unto me as a man speaketh with another."
Who is the Holy Ghost?
"______ upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do."
What is "feast"?
Nephi calls repentance and baptism this, "by which ye should enter" onto the "strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life." (Hint: it opens and closes, and everyone has one at their home.)
What is a gate?