The First Vision: Was it just Jesus, or Jesus and God the Father? Both Brigham and John Taylor (3rd Prophet of the church) taught from the pulpit that it was neither; just an angel…

“[J]ust as it was when the Prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was right that he might join it. The answer was that none of them are right. What, None of them? No. We will not stop to argue that question; the angel merely told him to join none of them that none of them were right.”

John Taylor – 2 March 1879, Journal of Discourses – Volume 20 (Liverpool, England: William Budge, 1880), 167.