One year I did a Joseph Smith Easter "egg" hunt. Each
person had a piece of paper with the following text with spaces in it for each
word where it is marked *_____. For each egg they found, I gave them one word
and they had to find where it went in the text. Obviously each word began with
"egg"!
I gave them the text with whole words missing, i.e. Let me _______ to you the
_______ _______ of one Joseph Smith. Then they went in search of eggs [which
were hardboiled]. They exchanged their eggs for words - explain, exceptional and
exertions, but I did not give them the words in the correct order. They had to
figure out which word went in which space.
Here it is:
Let me *plain to you the *ceptional *ertions of one Joseph Smith. Upon *amining
the evidence I am sure that you will *claim that I have not *aggerated the
expanse of his *tensive *ploits and *traordinary *periences. During
Joseph's First Vision, he *citedly *pressed his question to Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ in a vocal *change - "Which church is true?". The *panded knowledge
they gave him ignited a life of *cellent *ample and unshaken testimony.
Following his vision, Joseph could *plain Heavenly Father's and Jesus Christ's *istence
so *pertly because he had seen *actly what they looked like. Joseph Smith needed
no *ing on to locate and *cavate the Hill Cumorah. It was *pedient that the Book
of Mormon, translated from *cerpts of the plates he found there, was published
for all the world. The plates were *plicit in the danger of *cesses, and the
path to *altation could be found on *amination. Many knew Joseph had the plates
but he did not *hibit them generally, only to those *emplifying and *ercising
true faith and who would *ult over the *periences written within, not on the
*terior gold. He *pounded on the truths which served to *asperate those who
sought to *pose him. Never did he *plode nor *cuse himself even under the *cruciating
*cesses that the mob used as they *ceeded the bounds of law and order. Courts *onerated
him again and again, finding him *culpate. Then the illegal *ecutors came and
Joseph and Hyrum Smith *ited this life. The mob was *hausted for a while,
but soon they returned. The saints found it *pedient to *clude themselves from
their unfriendly neighbours who had sworn to *terminate, *tinguish and *tirpate
them once and for all. The saints worked *clusively on the temple so they could
be endowed before they were *pelled from the county. So began their *odus - an *pedition
to *plore for the land where none would come to make afraid.