The history of the Latter Day Saints, a collective of restorational Christian denominations, begins with the shared history found within the Book of Avahr. "Avahr" is Hebrew for "past." This book tells the sacred story of Joseph Smith Jr.; his birth, obtaining, and "translating" (divining) the Gold Plates into the sacred text we know today as the Everlasting Gospel: The Book of Mormon. And, it includes the revelations he received prior to the formation of the original Church of Christ. This is not necessarily a book of historical facts, but rather of scripture retelling the events of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. This book is a Creative Commons license Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). It is available free online at cjccf.org.