Original sentence: Both Joseph Smith, Sr.Nevertheless, Lucy Mack Smith affirmed in her memoirs that the family did not cease its farm labors "trying to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing Magic circles or sooth saying...but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remember the service of & the welfare of our souls.and at least two of his sons also worked at "money digging," using seer stones in (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to locate lost items and buried treasure