Kimberly Jo Smith Featured Speaker at Onion Days Fireside

Kimberly Jo Smith, Payson Onion Days Fireside Speaker

Kimberly Jo Smith, great-great granddaughter of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the featured speaker/entertainer at the annual Fireside  August 31 at the LDS stake center across from historic Peteetneet  on 600 East in Payson.

Born in Tennessee to Joseph and Sue Smith, Kim has used her love of writing music and stories to expound upon the importance of family.  After learning at the age of 12 that she had an ancestor named Joseph Smith, Jr,.”who built a church,” Kimberly began a journey that would reveal  a heritage she had never known, and a family that had been sorely broken. 

Kim now lives in Payson, Utah with her two children.  She devotes much of her time to writing and speaking on the importance of healing within the family.  (Her new book Rising Hills and Sinking Valleys, a journey of her line of the Smith family was released in 2012).  It is her desire as she shares what the Smith family has endured on their journey to find hope through Jesus Christ, that families may realize that through Him all things are possible.  “There is no greater time than now to pull our families together.”

Everyone, young and old, is invited to share this non-denominational event at the church bldg. across from the historic Peteetneet Museum, 75 South 600 East Payson, UT at 6:30 pm.

(Published in the August 27, 2014, Onion Days Edition of The Payson Chronicle.)