D&C 124 I Welcome to Nauvoo I Lynne Hilton Wilson I Come Follow Church History

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Join host Lynne Hilton Wilson and special guest Susan Easton Black, one of the foremost experts on Nauvoo, Illinois, for a captivating episode exploring the creation of one of the most remarkable cities in early Latter-day Saint history. In this groundbreaking podcast, they uncover new insights and fascinating details about how the Saints transformed a swampy stretch of Mississippi River shoreline into the thriving “City Beautiful.” Together, Lynne and Susan dive into Nauvoo’s spiritual, social, and architectural legacy—from the vision behind its city planning and the building of the majestic Nauvoo Temple to the stories of the faith-filled people who made it all possible. Viewers will discover how Nauvoo became a center of innovation, faith, and community—and why its legacy still inspires members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today.

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0:00.0	Joseph Smith was the architect of Navu and is given credit for that.
0:04.0	The areas around Navu are larger than the counties of Chicago.
0:08.0	They called it Aug. They called it the strange fever.
0:12.0	Everyone is experiencing the death of their loved ones.
0:17.0	Save your dead and we will bury them on Mondays and Thursdays.
0:21.6	Joseph's Navu sermons talk a lot about death.
0:24.6	In those funeral sermons is where he introduces what we call temple work today.
0:29.6	Her son was nine and he wasn't baptized.
0:32.6	She is credited then with being the first to perform baptisms for the debt by proxy.
0:38.3	Oh, that's wonderful.
0:40.3	Every man 18 to 45 is invited to be in the Navu Legion.
0:44.3	The women used to say he was the most handsomest man in Navu as long as he was wearing his Navu legion uniform.
0:50.3	The church is growing at an enormous rate.
0:53.3	Average age in Navu, you've got to be about 26.
0:57.0	Wow.
0:58.0	We've got 16,850 members by 1840.
1:02.0	There's such a sense of awe for these early saints for that generation.
1:14.0	Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central.
1:16.4	I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, and today I am so happy to have Susan Easton Black here with us
1:21.6	to talk about Navu.
1:23.1	Welcome, Susan.
1:24.4	Thank you, Lynn.
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