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Okay, back to your testimony bill. Here we go.

Take back in. You can see the cellophane tape there that places it back in the Joseph journal.

The Book of Mormon translation again with each of us grew up being told about Nephite and

the Eurom and Thumb-Up buried in a box. But that's not the story. And the reason

the church didn't want to tell us about seer stones was because once we know there are stones

involved instead of the spectacles, the next logical question is where are those stones

come from and now we're back to talking about treasure digging and Joseph doping people for money.

A scholar Dan Vogel wrote an article that points to 17 different treasure digs in the

Palmyra area. Here's another detail. We're not talking about just the six-foot deep hole in the

ground. We're talking about essentially digging out a cave into a mound of earth.

Having a dozen people work for days on end digging a hole, thinking they're going to get a treasure

and having paid to find it, only to be told it doesn't exist. My guess is none of you or very few of

you have heard those stories. We have passing quotes in Mormonism. We like to say things like

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