According to the Church, in what is now canonized in section 110 of Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to the LDS Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and accepted the Kirtland ...

Missionary training dates back to the Church’s early days with the School of the Prophets organized in the 1830s so elders could “teach one another” the gospel and “be prepared in all things” ...

Much of the art, for instance, adopted by the church depicts Book of Mormon heroes as square-jawed, hunky he-men. Stories of great battles and righteous prophet-warriors get translated into action ...