This one I had to share. I wonder if they also saw it with their "spiritual eyes"?

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865641953/4-women-witnesses-to-the-Book-of-Mormon-translation-process.html

I had to sort of smirk at one part -

"On top of a large family of her own and many responsibilities of the home, Mary Whitmer began to feel her labor was too much. As those feelings began to grow, a stranger appeared to her, explaining the work that was going on in her home and showed her the plates. He encouraged her in her work and soon vanished."

Sounds like a man!

Mary Whitmer was shown the plates either by Nephi. . . or Moroni. Seems like something you'd be pretty sure about.
She kept saying it was Nephi, but later someone said she must have MEANT Moroni.

Now I mean really! If I had a heavenly visitor, I think it would be forever burned into my memory.

I just feel like they had a more casual every-day kind of relationship with supernatural visitations.

Joe had the same problem.
First vision was an angel. No, it was god. No, it was god and angels. No, it was god and Jesus.
Angel visit saying he'd get the plates was Nephi. No, wait, it was Moroni.

They can't keep their heavenly visitors straight. One might think it was all made up or something :)

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your story go ?

Well I think that official angels of god should wear missionary style name tags when they go about ministering to earthlings.

Did the stranger have a flaming sword?

"Although Lucy Harris did eventually become antagonistic to the work..."

Antagonistic? You men like burning 116 pages? And "In her dream she recalled a personage that appeared to her and chastised her for interfering with the work." Interfering with God's work, like not giving money? Typical. JS trying to get money so he wouldn't have to do any actual physical work.

Oh, those LDS catch-words words "powerful" and "remarkable" again! Ugh.

Lucy Harris' contribution to the translation was to steal the 116 pages....LOL