Book of Mormon Prophets
This son of Lehi built a ship, following the Lord's instructions, to sail his family to the promised land.
Who is Nephi?
Lehi's family left this city, obeying a command from the Lord, to travel into the wilderness.
What is Jerusalem?
In the spring of 1820, 14-year-old Joseph Smith knelt in a grove of trees and had this sacred experience.
What is the First Vision?
Many pioneers crossed the plains pulling all their belongings in these small, human-pulled wooden carts.
What are handcarts?
This is the general name used in the Book of Mormon for the land where Lehi's family eventually settled — believed to be the Americas.
What is the promised land?
This king gave a famous sermon from a tower, teaching his people that "when you are in the service of your fellow beings, you are only in the service of your God."
Who is King Benjamin?
This brass, ball-shaped device pointed the way Lehi's family should travel and worked according to their faith.
What is the Liahona?
This angel, a resurrected Nephite prophet, appeared to Joseph Smith and told him about gold plates buried in a hill.
Who is Moroni?
Brigham Young led the first company of pioneers into this valley in July 1847.
What is the Salt Lake Valley?
These were the two major rival groups descended from Lehi's sons, often at war with one another throughout the Book of Mormon.
Who are the Nephites and the Lamanites?
This missionary prince gave up his claim to the Lamanite throne to teach King Lamoni and his people about God.
Who is Ammon?
These two older brothers of Nephi frequently complained and rebelled during the journey to the promised land.
Who are Laman and Lemuel?
Joseph Smith found the gold plates buried inside this hill near his home in New York.
What is the Hill Cumorah?
Upon seeing the valley for the first time, Brigham Young reportedly said this famous phrase.
What is "This is the place"?
This great Nephite city and later capital was named after the king who first led people there.
What is Zarahemla?
This prophet and military leader commanded 2,000 young Lamanite warriors who were famous for their faith and courage in battle.
Who is Helaman?
In this vision, Lehi saw a tree whose fruit represented the love of God, along with a mist of darkness and an iron rod.
What is the vision of the Tree of Life?
Joseph Smith used this ancient instrument, sometimes described as two seer stones set in a frame, to help translate the plates.
What is the Urim and Thummim?
The Saints were violently driven from this state in the winter of 1838 after the governor issued an order calling for them to be treated as enemies.
What is Missouri?
This group of converted Lamanites buried their weapons of war deep in the earth and covenanted never to fight again.
Who are the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi (the Anti-Nephi-Lehies)?
This final Nephite prophet finished writing on the gold plates and buried them in a stone box on a hill.
Who is Moroni?
This banner, made from a torn coat, was raised by Captain Moroni to rally the Nephites in defense of their faith, families, and freedom.
What is the Title of Liberty?
The Book of Mormon was first published in Palmyra, New York, in this year.
What is 1830?
This roughly 1,300-mile trail traveled by the early saints stretched from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley.
What is the Mormon Pioneer Trail?
This ancient civilization, described in the Book of Ether, existed long before the Nephites and was destroyed because of wickedness and pride.
Who are the Jaredites?