Do not wait until you're directly impacted or someone you love is directly impacted before finding it worthwhile to take a firm sand in the truth both biblically and again objectively.

12-time all-American swimmer Riley Gaines speaking at the

2024 issues etc. making the case conference.

Which is exactly what I did. I'm ashamed to say it. That's exactly what I did. I'm ashamed to say it.

That's exactly what I did.

I waited until I was negatively and personally impacted before I deemed it a worthy cause.

I saw the harm, the severity, the trajectory of where we were going

if we didn't have people who take a stand. So don't do what I did. If we do it'll be far too late.

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So Ferguson, you know, went down to Mesoamerica several times to sort of look for these

artifacts. Throughout the 50s he was very optimistic that proof of the Book of Mormon was about to be discovered

literally any day. That never happened. It hasn't it didn't happen during his life

and it hasn't happened since and didn't happen during his life and it hasn't happened since.

And you know he sort of gradually grew a little disillusioned it seems like from his letters which I read

and in archives in Utah. Really what the moment of true shift for him was when the Egyptian papay

that Joseph Smith had translated into a scripture called the book of Abraham were rediscovered at the Met in New York

when he hired Egyptologist to translate these texts without telling them anything

about what he was hoping to hear back from them. They said, these are authentic ancient Egyptian

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