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Okay, should I keep going Mark? Absolutely.

In fact, this is Daniel Peterson. In fact, some criticisms of the first vision accounts and perhaps

Prothorow's own sympathetic observation itself reflect simple logical error. For example,

if the 1832 account mentions Jesus only, that doesn't mean contrary to certain critics that

the father didn't appear. And if an account describes a vision of angels, that's entirely compatible

with the vision of the father and the son also. In fact, the Lord Himself is sometimes referred to

biblically as an angel. As a parallel, if I say that I'm at Frank at the party, I'm not there by denying

that I also met John. And for that matter, Jane Bob Ellen and Stan as well.

Sandra, you want to start with that one?

Okay, when I went and talked to Le Grand Richards and we later wrote up about our event of meeting

with him, where it was all about the first vision. But when I wrote up the story, I only say that

Le Grand Richards is there. So then if some years later, I wrote up the account and I said, oh, by the way,

the president of the Mormon Church, David O'Malley was there as well. I would think people would be a

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