Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

I know you know so much here we could we could take up hours but can give us your

best shot on what happens between 111 and 112.

Alright so it's about a year and it's a busy year for Joseph and the Saints.

So they get back to Kirtland in September and they start making plans.

It seems to be influenced by kind of the trip and what they saw and a large part of this

is kind of business ventures.

So almost in part the Lord has kind of trusted them to be like okay I told you to solve

this question of repaying debt now like explore some options and that seems to be kind of

what they're doing.

Joseph in partnership with Sydney Rigden and possibly Oliver Cowdry it's a little unclear

in the sources.

They start a store.

In Chester, Ohio which is just a little bit south of Kirtland.

Joseph also buys a significant amount of land in the Kirtland area over 400 acres and

this is kind of unprecedented for him.

Others had had bought land had held land.

This is really when we see him really investing in land and some of this land was likely

intended to be used for newly arrived church members who are gathering to Kirtland.

There's a huge population boom across 1835 to 1837 in terms of members that are coming

to Kirtland gathering to Kirtland.

But the land also likely served as security for the bank that Joseph Smith and this

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