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This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights. Today, Doctrine

of Covenants, section 71 through 75.

So to begin this particular block of sections, we have to begin with a story. Ezra Booth is

kind of the central focal point in section 71. How do we handle what he's doing? So to give

you the background information. And we've heard of him before. Yeah, yeah. And it's not just Section 71 because this background that you're about to give us actually

ends up creating the context for a whole bunch of church history from October 1831, all

the way into March, where some pretty negative things, hurtful, painful things happen

to Sidney and Joseph.

Yeah, so the fascinating thing is Ezra Booth, we've talked about him before on that trip

out to independence and back and his frustrations with the prophet and with the land out

in independence. Let's turn the clock back to the beginning of where he came

into the church. He's a Methodist preacher living in the the Kirtland-Hiram, Ohio area.

He's good friends with John and Elsa Johnson, and they're having this little meeting. So in the writing of one of these

early histories of the church, it says, quote, Mrs. Johnson had been afflicted for some time

with a lame arm and was not at the time of the visit able to lift her hand

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