Interesting facts about the Prophet Joseph Smith...

• The tricky medical operation performed on Joseph Smith's leg when he was a child would not be successfully repeated until nearly a century later..
• As assassin attempted to kill Joseph Smith when he was 14.  The shot was fired at the prophet in a gray twilight, missing its target and hitting a nearby cow instead...
• In 1826, the angel Moroni told Joseph that he could obtain the plates the following year if he brought "the right person" to the hill and that, when the time came, he would know who that person was.  The following year, Emma Hale Smith accompanied Joseph to the Hill Cumorah to retrieve the plates...
• On July 27, 1837, Joseph Smith was arrested--and released--on false charges six times in Kirtland, Ohio...