Welcome to Church History Matters, Come Follow Me Edition, where we are systematically diving into every section of the doctrine and covenants throughout the year 2025.

We have a lot to talk about today, so let's get into it.

We've made it to sort of like, I want to call it phase two of the restoration.

Now there's a church, now we're sending out missionaries, now we're gathering like the next

group of converts.

So we start out these sections talking about the Whitmers, who we're familiar with,

who've been with us for a little while now, but we're going to bring in some really interesting, colorful characters that are going to

significantly impact to the church as we go on.

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So today we're doing Doctrine and Covenants 30 through 36.

That's a lot of sections with some really important consequences to several of these

sections that are going to impact really, the future trajectory of the entire church.

So, thanks for being with us, everyone, today, and let's get into it.

What kind of framing would you put on these revelations as a collective?

Couple frameworks here.

First, you might remember an episode or two ago that Oliver Cowdery in Section 28 is commanded to lead the church's first mission.

And the commandment is to go all the way to the edge of the American nation, to the borders by the Lamanites.

That's the wording in the section.

Yeah.

And these sections, in one way or another, almost all of them connect to that Lamanite mission.

Yeah.

The second thing is, is all of these sections

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