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Hello my friends, welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith and I am here with

my wonderful affable co-host John by the way. Hello John by the way.

Hi, thank you for calling me affable and someday I hope to know what that means.

You are affable. It means approachable, courteous, gentle, good, humored.

Okay, not that I have this Aras in front of me.

John, we are on a really important sections lesson, a couple of sections in the doctor and

covenants and so we needed a very important guest for our very important lesson. Who's with us today?

Yes, thanks Hank. I have looked forward to this. These three sections from Liberty Jail

for a long time and so glad to have Brother Bob with us again and if you've listened to us before

you've heard us introduce Brother Bob but I'll do it again here to remind you. I've always just

heard people say in our circles, Hank, that this guy is the Church's expert on Missouri.

Alexander Elbaugh is a professor and chair of the Department of Church History and Doctrine

at Brighamming University where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1995. He received

his bachelor's degree from Utah State, his masters and PhD from BYU. He specializes in researching

and writing about the Missouri period of early church history, 1831 through 1839. He's the author

editor or co-editor of 10 books including three volumes of the document series of the Joseph

Smith papers, a document's volumes four, five and six. In addition, he's published more than 80

historical journal articles. Sorry, 80 just made me laugh. It's just a funny number. No, that's a lot.

Yeah, that is a lot. So also the past editor of the Mormon Historical Studies,

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