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Ask Of God
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Bodell
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Brigham Young Academy
As a BYU graduate, I learned to love this old building. My daughter now lives just down the street, and I think she is learning to love it too.
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Brother Joseph's Revenge
This painting illustrates the love Joseph had for children and the respectful love they returned. The prophet was not too busy to interact with even the smallest members of his following. I most want you to see how comfortable the children are wit...
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Brothers
I began painting the life of the Prophet Joseph after hearing a song by Kenneth Cope, entitled Brothers. The song tells of the great love of Joseph and Hyrum.
They were more than just brothers; they were the best of friends. They left this lif...
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Christ Appears In The Kirtland Temple
On April 3, 1836, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio. The occasion was that of a Sabbath day meeting. The Prophet prefaces his record of the manifestations with these words: "In the afternoon, I assisted the other...
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Day Of God's Power
Wilford Woodruff said of this experience:
"While I was living in this cabin in the old barracks, we experienced a day of God’s power with the Prophet Joseph. It was a very sickly time and Joseph had given up his home in Commerce to the sic...
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Desires Of My Heart
"After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God...I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above t...
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Early Morning Visitor
The Beehive House, Brigham Young's home in Salt Lake City, is a favorite of mine. At one time the home was used as a boarding house for young women working in Salt Lake. My mother spent several happy years living there.
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Elect Lady
Through my studies of Joseph Smith I have come to love and respect his beloved wife, Emma. The Lord said of Emma, "Hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, while I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter;…thou art an elect lady, whom I have ca...
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Emma's Hymns
Sometimes when callings come to us in the Church we are tempted to wonder how we can find the time. We are either raising young families, busy with careers, or caught up in the myriad of good things that take our time.
When the Lord gave Emma t...
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Emperor's Clothes Sketch
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Ephraim K. Hanks - Obeying The Spirit
In early October of 1856, Ephraim K. Hanks received a message from heaven. After a fishing trip to Utah Lake, he spent the night in Draper at the home of Gurney Brown. Soon after retiring to bed, but while still awake, a voice called him by name a...
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Father's Baptism
In the parable of the Lost Sheep the Lord compares Himself to a Good Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to look for the one sheep who is lost.
It is easy for me to become distracted with things that seem important at the time, only to find th...
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Father's Gift
The gift of life is our most precious gift. The privilege to co-create with our spouse and our Heavenly Father is a sacred trust.
After losing a son, Joseph and Emma knew tragedy again in Kirtland, Ohio, when their newly born twins died wit...
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First Vision
In each of our lives we are faced with confusion. Decisions can be difficult when the answers are unclear. At fourteen years old, Joseph Smith was faced with a country torn be religious revivalism. Preachers of all sects clamored for converts in a...
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Flowers For A Lady
The widow of Robert Thompson wrote of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s kindness to her daughter:
"I can never forget the tender sympathy and brotherly kindness [Joseph] ever showed toward me and my fatherless child. When riding with him and his wife Em...
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Forgive Me Joseph
Our spouses can bring us more joy and strength than any other relationship on earth. I think this was the case with Joseph and Emma. They were driven from town to town, rarely had a home of their own, and suffered mercilessly at the hands of mobs ...
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Go With Me To Cumorah
In the spring of 1820, Joseph walked from his parent’s home to a grove of trees to pray. His humble prayer brought an appearance of the Father and Son and started a new dispensation of truth.
In 1831, the persecutions of the Saints in Palmyra had...
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God Bless You, Mother!
The Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were taken prisoner in Far West and put in a wagon bound for Liberty Jail
A messenger told the Prophet Joseph’s mother, Lucy Mack, that if she wanted to see her sons alive she should come immediately to th...
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