Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

So we know that the Lord is telling Joseph Smith that there has been baptisms done in the river, right?

But it's now time to have a house where the ordinances could be performed.

And the baptisms in the river, it was not if you were to look at Navu from 1841,

when they're really into the baptisms for the dead to Joseph's death.

If you were to say what was the most consistent, almost daily experience of the saints,

and it's baptisms for the dead.

And what I've been, I found so fascinating putting together six volumes of these baptisms for the dead,

is that people knew the names of their ancestors.

I found one man, he did the names for 32 generations out there in the Mississippi River.

Whereas we look today and I'm not sure that my grandchildren can give the full name of my mother.

Do you see that? In other words, they've got other things going for them.

But they also did baptisms work for their friends, as well as family.

So Hiram Smith goes into the Mississippi and does the work for Alvin Smith, his brother that had died back there in Palmyra.

Don Carlos Smith did the work for his friend, quote, George Washington, who obviously they aren't peers, but the women of Navu,

when they wrote of Don Carlos as Smith said he was the most handsome man in Navu,

as long as he was wearing his Navu Legion uniform.

So obviously Don Carlos Smith like George Washington.

But by section 24, the Lord is saying, I need a house.

And I think that it's pretty interesting.

There were four different architects in the town of Navu, including Truman O'Angel,

who was the architect of the Salt Lake Temple.

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