 Conway also believed in the major tenets of Druidry—particularly reincarnation—and sought to incorporate them into Mormonism.In 1955, a Zapotec tribe of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico declared Conway to be a prophet and the mouthpiece of Jesus Christ.Conway began claiming that he was the reincarnation of Moroni, a prophet in the "Book of Mormon", and that a reincarnated Joseph Smith, "Our Druid Brother", had visited him.