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

occasionally it might be our stakes year to supply a float.

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

What if a priested leader called me into his office and requested that I head up the float

committee? Impossible impossible I couldn't

imagine anything more out of my own personal 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 afloat. When I think about the

immensity of what those early leaders in Kirtland were about to do and were asked to do by the Lord,

it was November 1831, and Joseph Smith and others have 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

additions, 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 Maureen Procteran.

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 laterday

st.mag.com forward slash podcast.

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