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All right, Terrell, well, we've covered a lot of ground and in terms of the foundations

of your testimony, we've covered God and Jesus or the Savior.

And we've started talking about the restoration, but now I'd like to just ask you, you know,

a lot of people trip up on the history and as you say, again, in your book, people

of paradox, in so many ways, the way the church has been set up, it does in many ways rise

and fall on its own history.

And so a lot of people find the history, you know, problematic, we've discussed that some,

I would say a big portion of that problematic history can be put in the category of just

being disappointed that the history, the version of the history you heard is different from

kind of what a more careful read would uncover.

So there's that whole disenchantment factor, but even if you set that aside and you were

just to kind of take a reasonable person and walk them through LDS Church history, I

guess like with any religion, you're going to find things that are kind of troubling or

hard to believe or something to that effect.

So if it's okay, I'm just going to ask you how you work through some of the more difficult

historical aspects that people struggle with.

And if we reach a point where, you know, the answer is the same.

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