Relics

  • Sword of Labon: When Nephi encountered the unconscious Laban, he noticed that Laban was wearing a fine sword made of "precious steel" with a hilt of "pure gold."[17] After slaying Laban, Nephi took this sword for himself. He would later use it as a model for manufacturing several similar weapons for his peoples' defense.[18] Apparently Laban's sword was passed down through the centuries to future prophets, kings, and warriors, as it is mentioned many centuries later in the Book of Mormon.[19] The sword supposedly exists to the present-day, and was hidden away with the Gold Plates found by Joseph Smith, Jr..[20] The Sword of Laban currently rests upon the gold plates, unsheathed, in the Hill of Cumorah. on it was written these words: 'This sword will never be sheathed again until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our God and his Christ
  • The 116 pages. Martin Harris scribe of Joseph Smith had 166 pages locked in a bureau of his wife. The pages disappeared after being shown to many friends and the lock having been picked by Mr. Harris damaging it. http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/book_of_mormon/116_pages.html
  • Golden Plates written in "Reformed Egyptian".
  • Brass Plates: the record of the wickedness of the people of the world
  • The Directors: a ball
  • Interpeters
  • Caractors document or Anthon Transcript: Smith gave a copy of some reformed egyptian to Martin Harris in 1828 to show scholars. This slip of paper was in hands of David Witmer in 1887. Perhaps givento nephew and sucessor David Whitmer. See Church of Christ (Whitmer)

    Locations

  • Temple Lot: in Independance, MO, supposedly the site for the temple in New Jerusalem. Purchased by a scismatic sect: Chruch of Christ (Temple Lot). Excavated in 1930s in order to build temple. Sect splintered off Church of Christ with the Elijah message in 1929 over building of temple in Independance.

    Apostle Otto Fetting of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) lived in Port Huron, Michigan, when he announced in early 1927 that he'd been visited by John the Baptist appearing as an angel instructing him to build the temple on property owned by the Temple Lot Church.

    The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) had a long history of interest in purported revelations and angelic visitations, and enthusiastically greeted Apostle Fetting's announcement. They prepared to build the temple and ground was broken in a ceremony on April 6, 1929. The angel is believed to have brought architectural descriptions and even to have specifically directed the surveyors marking out the Temple Lot (at one point, to have told them to move their markers 'ten feet to the east'). Several other members of the church reported receiving revelations confirming the temple's dimensions. Following the angel's lead, while digging, two stones were unearthed in which had been buried by Joseph Smith, Jr. one hundred years earlier. These stones were engraved with surveyor's markings, and indicated precisely where the temple is to exist. The stones can be seen to this day in the small museum inside the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), located at the corner of River and Walnut in Independence, Missouri.

  • Cumorah Hill, Palmyra, NY.