Though Joseph Smith received many visions and revelations, one of these was so sweeping,

so mind-expanding, so glorious that the early saints simply called it the vision.

It not only clarifies who we are and why we're here and where we're going, but demonstrated

yet again what a powerful and loving Father we have in God.

He is the ultimately successful parent, and the vast, vast majority of his children receive

a glory that right now they cannot begin to comprehend.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me

podcast, where today we'll be studying Doctrine and Covenants, Section 76, in a lesson entitled

Great Shall Be Their Reward, and Eternal Shall Be Their Glory.

You can find the transcript for this podcast at ladderdaysaintmag.com forward slash podcast,

and at the same location, all the Come Follow Me podcasts we've recorded.

That's ladderdaysaintmag.com forward slash podcast.

Preston Wilford Woodruff said of the vision that it gives more light, more truth, and more

principle than any revelation contained in any other book we ever read.

It makes plain to our understanding our present condition, where we came from, why we are

here, and where we are going to.

Any man may know through that revelation what his part and condition will be.

For all men know what laws they keep, and the laws which men keep here will determine

their position hereafter.

They will be preserved by those laws and receive the blessings which belong to them.

Now Maureen, I just have to put a footnote in here.

I have made a tradition of studying Section 76 every year on February 16th as a sign of

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