In Documents Volume 3 there are
documents that show and demonstrate the
beginning of the construction on the
house of the Lord in Kirtland. In
December 1832, a revelation commanded
church members and church leaders to
begin constructing a house of the Lord
in Kirtland, and and by June 1833 they
had not begun that process and so
another revelation dated June 1st
chastised them for not making this a
priority and and told Joseph Smith that
the manner after which the house would
be built would be shown unto three whom
were appointed and the three that were
appointed were Joseph Smith, Sidney
Rigdon, and Frederick G Williams. The
members of the presidency of the high
priesthood so as the men knelt to pray,
according to a later account, the vision
of the house was shown unto them. It
encircled them, it came down, and they
were able to see the interior and the
exterior to see the way in which the
pulpits an the pews and the dimensions
of the house were to be laid out and
they went about drafting architectural
plans after that. And those are still
extent and still present in in the
documents 3. What is really amazing
about this is right after this happens
Hyrum Smith records in his diary that he
went out on June 7th and and started
digging the trenches for the foundation
walls, for the house of the Lord in
Kirtland
 
