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English
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Triumphs of the Young Joseph F. Smith
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Joseph F. Smith : Reflections on the Man and His Times
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Provo, UT
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Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book
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37-51
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In this paper, the author shares several conclusions he has made after several years of examining Joseph F. Smith's Sandwich Islands and British mission diaries. His youth provided spiritually grounding experiences and planted the seeds of character traits notable in his presidential years. Rather than solely the transcending of a difficult and dismal past, we see in his early life examples of how the Lord prepared Joseph F. Smith for the leaders he would become - and how young Joseph F. began the process of triumphing over his weaknesses. [From the text]