Moroni Story

[Mullenite]

MORONI STORY

'We must remember that we have control over who we are no matter how difficult the world becomes.

The shaft of light on the Angel Moroni statue in the picture below tells the story. Click on Picture to in large.

'A good friend of mine, who is also our former stake president, as well as the chief temple architect for more than half of our current temples, told me an interesting story about the Nauvoo Temple. His name is Keith Stepan. He was the managing director for the Temple Construction Department for the church.

When the Nauvoo Temple was being built, for various reasons, they had some challenges and delays in getting the statue of Moroni mounted on top of the temple. It was Septemb er of 2001, and one such delay was due to the 9/11 attacks, but there were other problems as well. They started having some concern over exactly when they could mount the statue. As they looked over the construction plans, they decided that a particular day would be the last chance they would have to mount the statue without too much trouble. Anything beyond that would present big challenges.

When tthat day came and the weather was not cooperating. It was stormy and very windy. The crane operator felt that it was unsafe to attempt to mount the statue with the wind blowing as strong as it was. Keith Stepan and some of the others on the project went off to a private spot and prayed for the Lord to temper the elements so that they could put Moroni in place that day. Soon afterwards, the wind died down and the clouds opened up just above the temple. They decided to go ahead.

Just as the crane began lifting up Moroni, a column of light shot straight down from the sky directly onto Moroni. The statue was successfully installed. The date was September 22 nd, and turned out to be a significant anniversary. It was September 22nd, 1827 that Joseph Smith received the golden plates from the Angel Moroni. Here is a photograph of the statue of Moroni being mounted on the temple in Nauvoo. Keith told me this story personally and gave me this picture.'

[Latter Days Guy]

What a great story!

[VisionOfLehi]

During a YSA Multi-Stake conference at Nauvoo (Nauvoo is my current ward's Temple), the Priesthood holders (myself included), got to visit with the 1st Counselor of the Nauvoo Temple Presidency.

He had TONS of photos that he had taken of the construction of the Temple. He knew how big it was, how much this-and-that was used, how long it took to do everything, etc. etc.

I do not believe he mentioned any trouble getting up the Moroni statue.

I also see, that from that photo, it looks more like the picture just had some convenient overexposure due to light reflecting. The flagpole right behind the "shaft of light" is probably the cause for this.

Furthermore, the date (Sept. 21) that the Angel Moroni was set was done so because it was the 178th anniversary the angel Moroni's first appearance to Joseph Smith Jr.

Interesting Facts About LDS (Mormon) Temples

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