"I have actually seen a vision," he said again and again.

"I know it, and I know that God knows it, and I dare not deny it." So three years went by.
On the evening of September 21, 1823, after Joseph had retired to his room, he prayed earnestly that the Lord would forgive him his sins and show him if he was yet accepted of him.

While he was yet praying a very bright light came into the room, and immediately a person stood in the air by his bedside.

As this person was an angel--a being who had died and had been resurrected with an immortal body--it is interesting to know how he looked.
Joseph describes him as a man having on a robe whiter than anything he had ever seen.

His hands were naked, and his arms also, a little above the wrists.