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Paisley: Hey everybody. Happy
Monday. We are right in the

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middle of January. January 13
through the 19th. I saw a pillar

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of light. So this week we are
going to be talking about Joseph

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Smith's first vision,
specifically, all of the

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versions. Actually, we'll get
there in just a second. But

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there is right here, just Smith
history, chapter one, section

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one, verses one through 26 and
as we scroll, we can see

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references to just a couple of
verses. Then we get down here.

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There's big chunks of verses,
verse like five through 26 right

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here. Joseph Smith is the
prophet of the restoration. See

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also saints. Volume One, pages
three through 19, which we'll

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get to here in just a second,
talking about how I can receive

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answers to my prayers, and using
the first vision as kind of a

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pattern, which is right here.
President Eyring gave a talk

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about that back in 2020 the
First Vision, a pattern for

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personal revelation. So that's
on our list. There's gospel art.

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Come follow me. Books can give
you ideas. And then President

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Nelson's talk, hear him is also
in this week's study. We did

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that back here when we started
with the Doctrine and Covenants,

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and we did just the restoration
of the fullness of the gospel of

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Jesus Christ back at the very,
very end of December, beginning

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of January. And so I actually
included that in one of the

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plans that I put together, but
did not include that in the

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second one, and I'll show you
why here in just a minute. We

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keep going. He saw God, the
Father and His Son, Jesus

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Christ. There's a video right
here that is six and a half

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minutes long. It's called Joseph
Smith's first prayer. Sorry,

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just kidding. It's called ask of
God, Joseph Smith's first

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vision. I knew that didn't sound
right. Joseph Smith's first

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prayer is hymn number 26 if you
want to go, take a listen to

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that this video. I actually
watched this video with my

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family tonight, as part of our
family night, family home

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evening. And my girls are young,
and they got a little scared at

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first, but they were okay, and
we actually watched this one and

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the two animated ones that I'll
show you here in just a second.

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So it's fine for kids, but the
animated versions, they liked

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better. Surprise, surprise,
right? So keep scrolling. See

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also topics and questions. First
Vision accounts. So there is

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more than one account of the
first vision that may be, that

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might be the first time that
you've ever heard that. It was

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probably 10 years ago or so, the
first time I heard that, and I

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remember just thinking, Wait,
what? There's more than one

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version? What do you mean
there's more than one version,

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and it kind of broke my brain
for just a minute. I grew up in

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the church. How did I not know
that there was more than one

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account or more than one version
of the First Vision? But it

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makes sense, if you think about
it, how many times have you told

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a particular story from your
life multiple times and told it

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just a little bit differently,
like sometimes you remember

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something that you didn't
remember the last time you told

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the story. Sometimes you leave
something out because of the

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person that you're talking to.
It happens. Why would it not

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happen with something with this?
Why would it not I mean, he was

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just a normal guy, right? Joseph
Smith was a normal guy who had

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the same human frailties that we
do anyway. So topics and

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questions, first, Vision
accounts, I did add that to the

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list. And then there's a talk
here by Elder Stevenson,

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nourishing and bearing your
testimony, which I think would

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be great for all of us to just
kind of take a refresher and

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remind ourselves that our
testimony shouldn't be a travel

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log. It should be focused on the
Savior, moving on, people,

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places and events. We'll come
back to that ideas for teaching

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children. Here's one of the
animated videos that I mentioned

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before. This one talks about
Joseph Smith's family and tells

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the story about his leg when he
was a kid and how the the

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doctors had to cut part of his
bone out part of the bone out of

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his leg. God, can answer my
questions through the

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Scriptures, which that was
actually a really fun

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conversation to have with my
girls tonight. How Joseph went

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to the scriptures to get his
answer because he knew he could

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find answers in the scriptures
and the scriptures the answer

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that he found in James. One five
was that he needed to go say a

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prayer. So his answer that he
found in the Scriptures was to

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pray was more than just finding
an answer in one spot, there's a

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primary song, search, ponder and
pray. Heavenly Father hears and

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answers my prayers. Here's the
other video that I was talking

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about this one is about the
First Vision, specifically, some

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artwork and an activity page.
Alright, let's go back up to

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this, people, places and events.
There's a lot this week. A lot,

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a lot. So click to see more. I
just clicked there, and it

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brings me to here. There is a
chapter in saints, the story of

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The Church of Jesus Christ, of
Latter Day. Saints, Volume One,

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chapter two. Hear him so that
when I added to the second list,

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Plan B. There's also this
podcast, a Joseph Smith papers

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podcast, the First Vision. There
are six episodes about the First

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Vision. One of them number five
is about 45 minutes long. We'll

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get into that here in just a
second. The let's see people

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places. I kind of skipped over
those. And to be honest, I

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skipped over topics this week as
well on both lists, because Plan

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B already has us at like, 45
minutes a day. But if you want

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some extra credit, I don't know
where the extra whatever. If you

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want some extra credit, go look
up these topics. There's the

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Joseph Smith's first vision
accounts. Again, that one I did

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include in the checklist, but I
did not include any of the rest

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of these. And then these ones I
did include, because these are

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primary accounts of Joseph
Smith's first vision of deity.

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These ones I included, and these
early contemporary accounts by

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other people, Orson Pratt.
Orson, hi, Levi Richards, an

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interview that Joseph gave to
David Nye and then Alexander.

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We'll just call him Alexander. I
don't know how to pronounce that

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last name. I did include those
in plan B. Okay, it's a lot.

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It's a lot. So let's look at
Plan A, really quick. Plan A is

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pretty simple, pretty
straightforward. All the stuff

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at the top right, Plan A on
Monday is Joseph Smith history

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verses one through 26 and the
video ask of God Joseph Smith's

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first vision. And all said and
done, that's about nine and a

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half minutes, if you're if you
just do verses one through 26

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and that's an estimate, just
based on like, I think I did one

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minute, not one minute. I think
I did. I don't remember 10

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seconds per verse or something
like that. So that's an

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estimate, but it's about nine
and a half minutes. And then on

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Tuesday, that talk by President
Eyring is 13 and a half minutes.

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On Wednesday, that talk by
President Nelson is all by

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itself. It's 24 and a half. And
then on Thursday, the topic the

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First Vision accounts, I put 20
minutes in there because that

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one it's it's kind of a long
read, but also something that's

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good to have in our brain, like
that, there was more than one

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account of the First Vision on
Friday, nourishing and bearing

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your testimony by Elder
Stevenson, that one is just over

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13 minutes. And then on
Saturday, those two videos

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together combined is almost
seven minutes, not even a full

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seven minutes. So you're looking
at about 14 and a half minutes a

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day. If you go with Plan A, Plan
B is a lot more. It's about 44

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minutes a day Monday. I put most
of the First Vision accounts

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into Monday. So we've got Joseph
Smith history. That's the

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officially like the officially
recorded version in the in the

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Joseph Smith history in the back
of our standard works, our

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scriptures.

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So that one is on there. And
then I wanted to look at all of

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the different versions of the
first vision on the same day. So

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I did podcast episode number
one, and then all of those

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different versions, except for
this one right here, the Orson

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Hyde one, because that Orson
hide one is kind of long I

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estimated. So these other ones
starting right here with circa

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summer 1832 history. Three,
starting right there and going

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all the way down through the
bottom of Monday. Those are not,

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you can't listen to those. You
have to read them. So those are

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estimates, but they're all
pretty short. Some of them are

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only one paragraph. Some of them
are two paragraphs. Except for

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this one by Orson Hyde. This one
was like, this one was really

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long, and it's a modern English
translation. The original

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version was given in German, and
so it's a modern English

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translation. And I, just as I
kind of tried to skim through

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it, realized I want to take my
time reading it, so I put it

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down for 20 minutes by itself,
and that's why it's got some

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short stuff here. It's got the
two it's got two of the three

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videos, and then episode two of
that podcast, and episode two of

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that podcast is still about 20
minutes by itself. So these may

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or may not take you like Monday,
may or may not take you the full

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45 minutes episode one of the
podcast is 18 minutes by itself.

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The rest of this, I have
estimated it like one or two

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minutes apiece, all right.
Wednesday, the first vision of

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pattern for person revelation
with President Eyring. Wednesday

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is about 42 minutes. We've got
two conference talks and a

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podcast episode. That podcast
episode is 15 minutes. Thursday,

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there's the topic, first vision
accounts, and then there's a

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video, and then episode four of
that podcast, that one is just

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under nine minutes long. So this
one right here, depending on how

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deep you go into, the First
Vision accounts could take. I

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have, I have my Thursday marked
at about 32 minutes. This is the

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shortest of the days right here,
on Thursday, Friday. Episode

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five is 44 minutes and seven
seconds. So that one is there

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all by itself. And then on
Saturday, I put in Saints volume

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one, chapter two, and episode
six of that podcast, which is 20

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it's about 29 minutes. It's just
under 29 minutes. Notice that I

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did not include hear him from
President Nelson on this

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particular plan, I left it off
because that talk is 25 minutes

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by itself, 24 and a half minutes
by itself, and we just looked at

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it two weeks ago. So I left it
off of here. But again, if you

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want some extra credit in
heaven, go ahead and read hear

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him or listen to hear him again
by President Nelson. And then

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feel free also to check out
these other, these other topics,

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awakenings and revivals that
would that sounds super

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interesting to me. Excuse me. So
that's it. We've got Plan A,

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which is about 1415, minutes a
day, and plan B, which is about

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three times that long, if you've
got the time for that. And

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remember, you can take and like,
I'm not here to hold you

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accountable to your plan a or
plan B. Nobody's keeping track

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of what you're studying and what
you're not except for you do

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what you can if you are
ambitious and you want to try

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Plan B. And you get through
Joseph Smith history one through

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26 and you're like, I cannot
listen or read one more thing,

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then don't just do what you can
do. It's all going to be fine.

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And just Just do your best. Be
honest with yourself and do your

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best. That's all that any of us
can do, right? Okay? Also, I'm

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just throwing it out there, but
this section right here, on

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people this week only, Joseph
Smith Jr and Joseph Smith senior

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are listed on here, which I find
really interesting, given that a

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couple of orsons, Orson Pratt
and Orson Hyde gave second hand

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accounts of the First Vision. So
I think it's kind of interesting

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that the two people to focus on
this week are Joseph Smith Jr

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and his dad. Joseph Smith
senior, I have always loved how

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his dad believed in him. It's
reminiscent, at least to me, of

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Nephi in the Book of Mormon, and
how his dad, his dad believed in

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his dad was the prophet, but
Nephi, he. Yeah, his he was

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always believed in his father,
believed in his, in him, in him.

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And when I think of Joseph Smith
senior, I always think he never

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and maybe I'm wrong. I have not
read a documented instance of

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senior being like, Why is it my
kid, and why is it my 14 year

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old kid? Instead, he had older
brothers. Why is it my 14 year

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old kid? I No, I don't I have no
idea. I've never seen a

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documented account of him
thinking, why wasn't it me? Why

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is it my teenager? He just
believed in his kid and he

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supported him. He and He did. He
did everything that he could to

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support Joseph and his calling.
I love, I just love that. I love

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that about his dad and about his
mom. They were very supportive

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parents, and when, in fact, when
you watch one of these videos,

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this one right here, a family of
faith, when you watch that

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video, it talks about how his
mom actually said a prayer that

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they would find the right
church. And can you imagine, you

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say a prayer, I that you you
just want to find the right

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church, and it comes to you
through your kid. I It's anyway.

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I just love it. This is going to
be a really fun week and a

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really, really full week. Thank
you so much everybody for being

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here. Good luck. Enjoy it. Do
what you can to enjoy it. Don't

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push yourself so that you're not
enjoying what you're learning.

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If you're just trying to get
through it, because it's a

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checklist and you just want to
check it off, you might miss

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something. Go through it at your
own pace. Do what you can and

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learn something new. It's more
important that we learn

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something than it is to get it
all done. Thank you so much for

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being here, you guys. I'll see
you next time you.