Keep listening for Part 2 with Dr. Christopher Jones, Doctrine of Covenant Sections 37th through 40.

Early 1832, shortly after he has the sort of really solid stretch of preaching and conversion here,

Koval is again elected to his former position as president of the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.

And in that capacity, he not only continues preaching, but also begins mentoring many young preachers

in the church, including two of his sons, James Jr. and Zinus.

James Jr. goes on to read this, to write this really fantastic scriptural commentary

that goes through multiple editions, it becomes

very influential in Methodist and Protestant circles.

And that group of preachers that he mentored during that time also included a man named John

Green, a Methodist reformer who joined the Methodist Protestant Church in 1832 and took up an assignment

on the Hannibal Circuit of the Genesee

Conference. For the year and a half prior to Green accepting that appointment, though, he had also

been investigating the Church of Christ and reading the Book of Mormon. He received that Book of

Mormon from Samuel H. Smith in July of 1830.

This is the John Green married to Rhoda Young, who together with her brothers Phineas, John, Joseph

Lorenzo, and Brigham Young read and studied the Book of Mormon. Phineas Joseph and John Young,

like their brother-in-law, John Green, were all Methodist preachers, who, in the words of Phineas, continued to preach trying to tie Mormonism to Methodistism for more than a year before finally concluding that they must leave one and cleave to the other.

Green apparently reached a similar conclusion, and in spite of his recent decision to unite with

the Methodist Protestant Church and accept this preaching appointment, had become within two months

convinced of the Book of Mormon's truth and decided to be baptized. At a special session of the

Genesee Conference in October, Green's decision was characterized

thusly.

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