As a child I spent a lot of summers in Manti, Utah. I remember being
told that Moroni had stood on the hill where the Manti Temple now
stands and declared that a temple would be built there. I just found
the following quote, allegedly from Brigham Young:
"Here is the spot where the Prophet Moroni stood and dedicated this
piece of land for a temple site, and that is the reason why the
location is made here, and we can't move it from this spot."
If this is true, or accepted as true, what does this tell us about
Book of Mormon geography? Could Moroni conceivably have been in what
is today central Utah and the models of Book of Mormon geography still
stand, especially the limited geography model? If not true, is
Brigham Young a false prophet? Or is this just some urban legend?
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