Mormons say etc is you favorite “Jinjle”. Binghamton_native, but when one looks closer, it was the Lord WHO TOLD Joseph Smith!
JOSEPH LISTEN TO THE LORD TELL JOSEPH SMITH!
When the story is told later Joseph Smith replies The LORD SAID THIS TO ME!
If you have any courage at all, which I do not think you do, the following link is an excellent post-contemporary account (with TONS of supporting references) of how it all came about:
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Mormons/00000010.htm
Read Book 1 if you are brave enough at all.
OK, must be so if you say so.