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Today, Doctrine and Covenants sections 14 through 17.

So today we begin with the map just just from a 30,000-foot overview perspective.

Joseph and Oliver and Emma are in harmony, and persecution is starting to ramp up, to the

point where Emma's family who previously had been

kind of antagonistic towards Joseph and his prophetic call have now started to defend him

against people who are threatening mob action. Well, meanwhile, up in Fayette, New York, there's a family called the Whitmer's. So you

have Peter Whitmer Sr. and his wife, Mary, and their children, they live in Fayette,

which is about 30 miles south of Palmyra.

While Oliver had been teaching school up in Palmyra that previous year, he got to know

David Whitmer, and they became good friends.

And David was very interested in what Oliver was learning

and experiencing with Joseph. And while Oliver has been down in harmony, he's been writing

letters to David up in Fayette, telling him about the amazing process of translating the

book Mormon and the revelations that were coming. And as things started

getting more and more difficult in harmony, Oliver asked if they could relocate to finish

the translation process of the book Mormon in Fayette at the Whitmer home. So David has this

discussion with his parents and they agree,

yes, you can go and get Joseph and Emma and Oliver and bring them here to live with us

while they complete this translation process. It had been a very cold and wet spring, the spring of 1829, and planting and the work on

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