Article of Faith #7

We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.

Today I was reading Joseph Smith History. It talks about when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His son Jesus Christ. At that time he was only 14 years old. He saw them after he prayed and asked God which church he should join. Then God and Jesus appeared to him to tell him that he shouldn't join any of them, because none of them had the complete truth or the authority. He wanted to tell his minister about it. I can (sort of) imagine what he was going through. He prayed and not only recieved answer to his prayers, but had God appear to him. After that experience he decides to tell a spiritual leader in his town about the experience. Which makes sense, the spiritual leader would probably be the most likely person to believe this sort of experience. He tells the minister and not only does the minister not believe him, but he tells him it is of the devil because revelation and vision are not on the earth anymore.

I believe that they are still on the earth. I believe that at certain times God will give these gifts to people to help further His work and strengthen His kingdom. I believe that the other gifts do happen and I believe that Heavenly Father still does allow these gifts and miracles to come about.