Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

Well, so, and maybe this is a good place to transition into talking about, you know, people

who didn't take this advice very well.

I mean, so one of those is Ezra Booth, right?

So Ezra Booth has this miraculous conversion experience is so disappointed by Zion, even

more frustrated by the way home, that really a month later, by September, his preaching

license is being taken away from him, and he's essentially being cut off from the church.

But Ezra Booth does not go quietly into the night.

Ezra Booth, he begins writing, and I think in part because he's trying to find a way to

get back into his, I mean, he used to have a job.

It was being a very prominent Methodist minister.

Well, one way to lose your job as a Methodist minister is to become a Mormon elder.

So that's not his life anymore.

And so he's writing back to Ira Eddie, who's one of the leaders of the Methodist groups

there in Ohio.

And he is writing to about this in a very, very, very critical way.

Essentially saying, well, you know, look, I must have been deceived, right?

Because this is not what we thought.

And writing scathing letters against Joseph Smith, against the church.

And he really becomes the first concerted effort to put into writing anti-Mormon attacks

from a former member of the church.

There had been other people who had certainly said negative things about Mormons.

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