It is also interesting that just as Moses would have to have a spokesman because he was slow of speech, so the seer in the latter days would have a spokesman. Joseph Smith was not slow of speech by any manner of means but he was very sensitive about his lack of formal education. The spokesman selected by the Lord for Joseph Smith was a former minister, Sidney Rigdon, referred to in Doctrine and Covenants 100:9. However, this appointment went to Sidney Rigdon's head and he lost the confidence of God so that another had to be appointed in his place. The brass plates also talked about Joseph in the latter days writing up the records of Lehi's people so they would speak like a voice from the dust to Lehi's descendants.