NT - Printing Museum

This week our class visited the Crandall Printing Museum (on Center Street between 2nd and 3rd East in Provo). This was the second time I have been, and it was amazing to see what the Lord does in preparation for events that need to come about.

The Printing Press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around the 1430s as a way to print the Bible faster than having monks hand write it. For 400 years the press stayed about the same, then a few alterations were made to it, and finally technology improved and improvements were made until we reached the typewriter and then the modern keyboard.

It's just fascinating to me how the Lord prepared the way for Joseph Smith to receive his First Vision. Joseph got the idea from reading the Bible, which was printed from a press. Furthermore, the printing press played a major role in the first editions of the Book of Mormon (5,000 copies).

I believe the Lord planned it all, and inspired the inventors with the ideas and the methods to making a printing press that works.

Makes me wonder, and look for, what the Lord has prepared for me and what He is preparing for others through me.