Editing Brigham Young (section)

=== Latter Day Saint conversion ===
[[File:Brigham Young portrait ca 1845.PNG|300x300px|thumb|left|1845 portrait displayed in the [[Nauvoo Temple]] [[Ordinance room#Celestial room|celestial room]]. Young titled the painting, ''Delivering the Law of the Lord.'' On the table are a Book of Mormon and Bible, and a third book titled, [https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/the-book-of-the-law-of-the-lord/1 "Law of the Lord,"] ]]
By the time Young moved to Mendon in 1828, he had effectively left the Reformed Methodist Church and become a Christian seeker, unconvinced that he had found a church possessing the true authority of [[Jesus Christ]].{{sfn|Alexander|2019|pp=9, 11}} Sometime in 1830, Young was introduced to the [[Book of Mormon]] by way of a copy that his brother, Phineas Howe, had obtained from [[Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints)|Samuel H. Smith]]. Young did not immediately accept the divine claims of the Book of Mormon.{{sfn|Turner|2012|page=24}} In 1831, five missionaries of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]]—Eleazer Miller, Elial Strong, Alpheus Gifford, Enos Curtis, and Daniel Bowen—came from the branch of the church in [[Columbia, Pennsylvania]], to preach in Mendon. A key element of the teachings of this group in Young's eyes was their practicing of spiritual gifts like [[Speaking in tongues#Christianity|speaking in tongues]] and prophecy. This was partly experienced when Young traveled with his wife, Miriam, and Heber C. Kimball to visit the branch of the church in Columbia.

After meeting [[Joseph Smith]], Young joined the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]] in April 9, 1832.{{sfn|Alexander|2019|p=16}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marquardt |first1=H. Michael |title=Setting the Record Straight: Brigham Young's Baptism Date |journal=[[Mormon History Association#Journal of Mormon History|Journal of Mormon History]] |date=2012 |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=195–199 |doi=10.2307/23292637 |jstor=23292637 |s2cid=254494524 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23292637 |access-date=March 23, 2022 |issn=0094-7342}}</ref> He was baptized by Eleazer Miller. Young's siblings and their spouses were baptized that year or the year afterwards.{{sfn|Alexander|2019|p=15}} In April 1832, a branch of the church was organized in Mendon; eight of the fifteen families were Youngs.{{sfn|Arrington|1985|p=32}} There, Young saw Alpheus Gifford speak in tongues, and in response, Young also spoke in tongues.{{sfn|Turner|2012|page=32}} Young and Kimball spent the summer following their baptism conducting missionary work in western New York, while Vilate Kimball cared for Young's family. After Miriam died of consumption, Vilate continued to care for Brigham's children while he, Heber, and [[Joseph Young]] traveled to visit Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio.{{sfn|Turner|2012|pp=30–31}} During the visit, Brigham spoke in a tongue that Smith identified as the "[[Adamic language]]".{{sfn|Turner|2012|page=32}}

After visiting Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Brigham set out to preach with his brother Joseph in the winter of 1832–1833. Joseph had been a Reformed Methodist preacher and the two made a similar "preaching circuit" in eastern Canada. They described the Book of Mormon as the "stick of Joseph", mentioned in Ezekiel 37.{{sfn|Turner|2012|page=34}} Young continued to preach in eastern Canada in the spring and accompanied two Canadian converts to Kirtland in July 1833. Young and his two daughters moved to Kirtland along with the Kimball family later that summer. Here he became acquainted with [[Mary Ann Angell]], a convert to the faith from [[Rhode Island]], and the two were married in February 1834 and obtained a marriage certificate on March 31, 1834.{{sfn|Turner|2012|pp=35–36}}{{efn|Sources list February 18 as the marriage date,{{sfn|Arrington|1985}}{{sfn|Alexander|2019}} while another lists it as February 10.<ref name="joj2"/>{{rp|p=62}}}}

In May 1834, Young became a member of [[Zion's Camp]] and traveled to Missouri. He returned to Kirtland with members of the camp in August.{{sfn|Arrington|1985|pp=39, 45}} After his return to Kirtland, Young did carpentry, painting, and glazing work to earn money. He also worked on the [[Kirtland Temple]] and went to a grammar school.{{sfn|Arrington|1985|p=47}}  His third child and first son, [[Joseph A. Young]], was born shortly after his return. Mary Ann, who was pregnant at the time, had provided for Young's two daughters and the children of her brother Solomon Angell and their friend Lorenzo Booth while Young was away with Zion's Camp.{{sfn|Alexander|2019|p=26}}{{sfn|Arrington|1985|p=39}}