Years ago, I remember that when the annual Pioneer Day Parade in Salt Lake City was coming,

occasionally it might be our state's year to supply a float.

I remember thinking how hard it would be to be called to head up such a task.

What a priesthood leader called me into his office and requested that I head up the

float committee.

Impossible.

I couldn't imagine anything more out of my comfort zone.

I wouldn't have had the foggiest idea where to begin.

The task would have been absolutely beyond me, put together a float, don't ask me.

I've laughed about that thought over the years that I was so glad never to have been asked

to put together a float, when I think about the immensity of what those early leaders

in Kirtland were about to do.

It was November 1831, and Joseph Smith and others had convened a conference where the

major task was to publish the revelations that had come to Joseph Smith in a new book

of scripture that they would call the Book of Commandments, and we would now call with

its editions the Doctrine and Covenants.

Joseph Smith, of course, had published the Book of Mormon, but publishing his own revelations

as scripture, this is new territory.

Hello, we're Scott and Marine Proctor, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me

podcast, where this week we are studying Doctrine and Covenants section 67 through 70,

in a lesson called, Worth the Riches of the Whole Earth.

You can find the transcripts for this podcast and all of our podcasts at ladderdaysaintmag.com

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