This month marks the 202nd anniversary of a pivotal event in the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. On the night of September 21, 1823, the angel Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith, beginning four years of annual instruction that prepared him to receive an ancient record written on gold plates. On September 22, 1827, Joseph was finally permitted to retrieve those plates from the Hill Cumorah. That record, now known as the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, has since been tra