Stay tuned for part two with Matthew Richardson, Doctrine and Covenants, Sections 27 and 28.

Section 28, I remember being in high school or maybe in junior high, reading section 28 and being incredibly confused on why Hiram Page was getting revelations from some sort of stone. I thought,

well, of course they know it's not. How do they think this is even real? He's getting it from

Iraq. Now I've gotten older. I thought, oh, this does make sense. I can see why members of the church

then would think this is real. This is of God.

Walk us through Section 28 and let us know what's happening. Well, Section 28 is a time period

where the church is starting to blossom in numbers and in understanding for a lot of the members.

We're looking at 1830 here, and this is shortly after the

church was officially organized. When we have that taking place, it's a time of, once again,

unfolding. I can't help but repeat myself. I know that's dangerous territory, but line upon line,

precept upon precept. And so we see an unfolding going on here. And I think that's

important to understand when we look at Section 28. One of the highlights of this one is dealing

with Hiram Page, as you mentioned. It's important to put a little context on what's happening

with him. He was born in the 1800-ish, you know, early 1800s.

This is back in the day where a lot of people didn't know when they were actually born,

but they had kind of an idea.

I'm about 28 years old, give or take, a decade or two.

I kind of like that.

I would like to use that one, too.

Yeah, I'm right around 28, I think.

I can't remember.

But in the early 1800s, and he was born in vermont and then he eventually starts to move west for him and when we see what's taking place is

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