Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast LDS discussions edition. I am your host for today

It is August 18th 2022 and we have taken a bit of a summer hiatus with the amazing LDS discussions project for those of you who don't know

Who are who are new to Mormon stories?

Several months ago we brought on our amazing friend and colleague Mike from the amazing website LDS discussions calm

To do this very lengthy series on Mormon truth claims and we've released I don't know 15ish or so episodes

Maybe a little bit more digging into things like just as Miss treasure digging the book of Mormon book of Mormon

historicity Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden the flood tower of Babel just all sorts of issues that are parts of Mormon

Theology or Mormon doctrine and we've been sort of looking at each one of those with a scientific empirical scholarly lens and

We had to take a break for the summer

But we are now back to talk about one of the most important issues that

Mormons are going to need to think about or deal with their confront as they're trying to

You know validate or confirm or disconfirm

LDS truth claims and that's Joseph Smith's first vision before we jump into

The Joseph Smith's first vision topic. I just want to make sure everyone knows that one of the cool things that we've done

Is we've gotten this entire LDS discussion series up on anchor which is a podcast a platform

Where you can listen to or watch these episodes

In sequence or you can share them with people you know and love

In addition to being available on anchor. It's also available on Spotify and on iTunes and we also created a YouTube

LDS discussions playlist so if you go to Mormon stories. Or click on the playlists

You'll find the LDS discussions playlists and the purpose for all of those is if you don't want to deal with these

Really important LDS discussions episodes

Intermingled with all the other Mormon stories content

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