The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was born on 6 April 1830. It was because of the contents of this book and heavenly instruction given to Joseph Smith. This new church was a restoration of the one established by Jesus Christ before his crucifixion. The priesthood authority that had once existed in the primitive church was also restored. As Jesus had instructed his apostles to go into all the world and preach the gospel, so also the Mormons, as they came to be known, sent missionaries forth almost immediately.
In August of 1833 Mormon missionaries came preaching in Andover West Surplus. Their message changed the Sessions family's lives forever. Patty spiritual yearning prepared them to accept this new religion. David did not fully invest in religion.
Patty at once accepted the message of the Mormon missionaries, but her husband needed to study longer. To appease him, she waited until July 1834, when, with David's consent, she was baptized and confirmed a member by missionary Daniel Bean.
Soon after he joined, he escorted some converts to Boston and met Joseph Smith for the first time. Many friends and neighbors opposed their joining the Mormon church, and the hostilities in the area became so bad that the Church authorities counseled all the converts to re-locate in Kirtland, Ohio.The David Sessions family left Newry, Maine in May 1837 and went to Kirtland.
One of the principles that the church taught was the gathering of Israel and its adoptees. From the earliest days of church history, the people of upper New York and its environs openly showed apprehension and suspicion toward the newly founded religion. Members began to search for a safe place to practice their religion freely, and Kirtland, Ohio, became an early location for Mormons. Joseph Smith and other church leaders were plagued with financial problems, and at the time the Sessions family departed from Maine, with the Mormons turning toward a new Zion in Far West, Missouri.
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