The first leader of the Mormon Church was Joseph Smith who, after a series of visions and a lengthy translation of some long buried metal plates founded The Chuch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The original book of Mormon was translated by Smith and transcribed by his wife and other close friends (nobody else was allowed to see them) with the use of a seer-stone.
Unlike life in biblical times, Smith was alive in a time when important events are officially recorded. Documents that place Smith in certain places at certain times are at odds with accounts included in his own diaries and writings. Details are allegedly manipulated and altered to fit around his own descriptions of his various theophonis.
Despite a great deal of evidence against the possibility of these divine events having taken place as well as Smith's well documented shady past as an alleged treasure hunter and conman, the Church of LDS continues to grow and there are en estimated 13 million followers world wide.