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David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'

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Russell M. Nelson
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: September 9
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