Mormonism & the Mormon church

This weekend my family convened in St. George, since it’s sort of central to everyone, to celebrate my mom’s 50th birthday. (She doesn’t look it at all.) On Friday evening we went to the St. George temple visitors center and saw the new movie the Mormon Church released at the end of last year, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. The movie was very good. It was the most comprehensive movie I’ve seen about the prophet Joseph Smith, covering all the main events as well as many smaller ones: his painful leg surgery as a child, being tarred and feathered, standing up to profane prison guards, and giving away his horse to free a slave. I was inspired by his courage and goodness, and I could feel the Holy Spirit reaffirm that he really was chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ to be the prophet of the beginning of this era.