TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH

I shortly after arose from my bed, and, as usual, went to the necessary labors of the day; but, in attempting to work as at other times, I found my strength so exhausted as to render me entirely unable. Many times we hear of spiritual happenings exhausting  people of their strength. I know that being places like conference and the temple even though Im not doing anything seems to zap my energy and strength.

“I obeyed;
I  obeyed is a lovely thing to say I hope I can say that of all of gods commandments to me.
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner His kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.
“At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: That I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.
I started to think of all the places I knew where Joseph hid the plates. In a barrel of beans, a log, in a chest,  under the hearth, in an attic, in the floor. I came across a good article that tells of the many hiding places for the plates to keep them safe."Take Heed Continually”: Protecting the Gold Plates By Andrew H. Hedges
 I am very thankful for all that was done to bring the Book Of Mormon to my hands. It is such a blessing to have them and to read them.