“AND IT CAME TO PASS”

Ancient America Foundation AAF Bruce W. Warren V. Garth Norman Alan C. Miner T. Michael Smith Joseph L. Allen Clate Mast F. Richard Hauck Harold Brown Diane E. Wirth Terry J. O’Brien John Welch John P Pratt M. Wells Jakeman Thomas Stuart Ferguson Milton R. Hunter David A. Palmer John L. Sorenson Lynn and Hope Hilton Scot and Maurine Proctor Ross T. Christensen

MORONI AND THE GOLD PLATES

THE BOOK OF MORMON  TRUE OR FALSE ?  FABRICATED OR TRANSLATED ?  REAL PEOPLE? REAL PLACES? REAL EVENTS?  THE WORK OF MAN?  THE WORK OF GOD?

CHIASMS  1 ST Nephi is chiastic  165 elements to center  165 elements away  107 additional chiasms in First Nephi  961 in Book of Mormon  33 in Pearl of Great Price  225 in Doc. & Cove...  Signature of God?

ANTHON TRANSCRIPT  Ether: 6:5-7  Jaredite barges  80% Indian dialect  20% Egyptian dialect  Stan Johnson

WORD PRINTS  33 Contributing authors in the Book of Mormon including Nephi, Mormon, Moroni, Jesus Christ and Isaiah.  Each has a different Word Print.  Joseph Smith’s Word Print is different from all.

LEHI’S TRAIL  Wilderness = Arabia  Frankincense Trail  Valley of Lemuel  River of Laban  Broken Bow  Nahom  Bountiful

“EAST FROM THAT TIME FORTH”  FROM NAHEM TO BOUNTIFUL TO MESOAMERICA  ELNINO

WHY MESOAMERICA  Distance  Culture Centers  Written Language  Cities and Places  Rivers and Waters  Wilderness areas  A Narrow Strip  Narrow neck-pass

IZAPA  Tree of Life  Ship  7 tribes  Zoram  Jewish holidays  Birth and Death date of Christ  Date Lehi left Jerusalem  Name Glyphs

TREE OF LIFE STONE Lehi’s dream

QUETZALCOATL  “The story of the life of Quetzalcoatl resembles that of the Savior, so closely indeed, that we can come to no other conclusion than that Quetzalcoatl and Christ are the same being. (Taylor)

THE HILL CUMORAH  BOOK OF MORMON CRITERIA FOR HILL CUMORAH  Near eastern seacoast and overlooks a coastal plane  Near hill both the Hill Shim and the Narrow Neck of Land.  Located in a land of many waters, rivers and fountains.  Located in a temperate climate (Food support for thousands)  Subject to volcanoes and earthquakes. Caves and holes for hiding.  Large enough for Mormon to view hundreds of thousands of bodies.

ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN HISTORIES Ixtlilxochitl The Lords of Totonicapan Popol Vul Bernadino Sahagun Juan de Torquemada Diego de Landa Codex Vienna and Codex Nuttall Dionisio Jose Chonay Antonio Chi And many others

CONCLUSION BRUCE R. McCONKIE “All who read, ponder, and pray – in faith- are promised that they shall know by the power of the Holy Ghost that the Book of Mormon is the mind and will and voice of the Lord, to all men every where, from this day onward as long as the earth shall stand. But the Book of Mormon does more. It announces that the Bible is true. It also is the irrefutable witness that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God; that the Lord calls and inspires men today as he did anciently; that living prophets receive revelation in our day and time. We believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.”