And the Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode was the 1835 first vision account suppressed.

You will recall that there are four primary accounts of the first vision and by primary

I mean the four accounts that are either written by or apparently dictated by and

closely supervised by Joseph Smith.

We've talked a great deal about the 1832 account, the one that was written in his own hand and the subsequent suppression of that first vision

account by Joseph Fielding Smith, the Church historian.

Today we'll be talking more in depth about the 1835 account of the first vision.

But before we do that, let's round out the other two accounts, which are the 1838 account of the

first vision, which is the one that we are most familiar with, the one that was written in the Church history, and subsequently became the official version contained in the Pearl of Great Price.

The fourth account was written in 1842 as part of the Wentworth

letter. Most Mormons are familiar with the Wentworth letter because the Articles of Faith

come from that letter, but there was much more to the Wentworth letter than just the articles of faith.

It also contained a brief history of the LDS Church up to that point in time, and as part of that history,

it included a version of the First Vision account.

Now the 1838 account and the 1842 account were both published in 1842.

The reason it's called the 1838 account is because it was written down as part of the

manuscript history of the church in 1838. It was published for the first time in 1842,

and the 1842 account was also published in that year of 1842.

The 1832 account, the earliest account we have of the First Vision, was written in 1832,

but it was not published until 1965.

Over 130 years later,

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