“You mean Joseph Smith really had a mother?” Such was one comment by a young Primary student being taught lessons on the prophets. Author Lynda Cory Hardy has found that stories about the prophets as children are fascinating to youngsters, bring the prophets to life for them, and help them want to know more.
Boys Who Become Prophets is filled with little-known, but absorbing, accounts of the childhood days of the presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith hated bullies, and once threw one in a ditch. Brigham Young was very sad when he thought his family had forgotten his eleventh birthday, and when John Taylor was ten he was almost run down by a team of horses in the midst of a thick fog.
Wilford Woodruff often for spotted trout, hunted, and loved sports. Lorenzo Snow had to be rescued from a tree where an angry bull had him cornered, and Joseph F. Smith was once lifted right off his galloping horse by two Indians intent on stealing some cattle.
A champion marble player, baseball player, and penman, Heber J. Grant hired other boys to do his chores for him, paying them with marbles. George Albert Smith worked for ZCMI sewing buttons on overalls. David O. McKay was another marble player and had a magpie he taught to talk.
Joseph Fielding Smith owned a horse name Junie who could undo the strap on the stall door with her teeth and escape from the bard. A bolt of lightning once flashed down the chimney and into the kitchen, nearly killing Harold B. Lee. When he was a boy, Spencer W. Kimball was a giggler and was often required to sit on the dunce seat so he would be quiet.
Teachers and parents will find this book helpful, and children will delight in reading the stories of Boys Who Became Prophets.
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