It was a beautiful fall day in 1894. The Mantae temple looked glorious as the

morning light almost gave it a heavenly glow. My handsome six foot four-inch 25-year-old grandfather,

Peter Daniel Jensen, was there to meet and marry his beautiful 20-year-old bride, Sarah

Jane Reese. Family was gathered and it was indeed a day of joy and happiness. Grandpa was known

to be a consistent journalkeeper. How would he describe this glorious day in his sacred journal?

I have seen what he wrote for Wednesday, September 26, 1894. It simply read,

today I married Sarah Jane Reese. Adam and Eve also kept a book of remembrance and,

fortunately, they recorded so much more. Let's talk about that today.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We are Scott and Maureen Proctor,

and we are delighted to be with you again this week, as we study Genesis chapter 5 and Moses

chapter 6 together. When you read the Genesis account, you might think this is just a boring

genealogy with not much more information than Peter Daniel Jensen's journal entry. If you were

to think that, you would be wrong. Let's do some exploring together as we look at our brave and

majestic first parents, Adam and Eve, and their family, the first family of sons and daughters

of God on earth. I believe if we were given the chance to see our parents, Adam and Eve again,

we would be overwhelmed with our connection to them, the love that we would feel from them,

their personal knowledge of us, and their majesty and glory. Now, if you just lay out all the

birth and death dates on a simple chart, you see that by the time Adam comes to Adam on

Diamond for the great gathering, it is three years before his death, and according to the notes

Joseph Smith took during the translation of the Bible, Adam would live to be a thousand years old,

so he was 997 years old, and nine generations of these venerable patriarchs and likely their wives

were alive at this time. That is pretty exciting. I wish we could have been there at that unprecedented

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