“When the set time had fully come- when the day for the promised restoration of all things was at hand- the Lord in heaven, in his infinite wisdom, mercy and goodness, sent from the courts of glory that eternal spirit whose foreordained mission it was to usher in the dispensation of the fullness of time. Joseph Smith began his mortal life. It was December 23, 1805. The sun was then just hidden by the mountain peaks. (CR, April 1978, p. 17.)”