Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, Joseph Smith edition.

I am your host for today, John DeLinn. It is August 6th, 2025. And today we are on, I believe,

if I'm counting right, part 10 of our series on Joseph Smith. We call it the Joseph Smith podcast

to kick off the Joseph Smith podcast.

As you know, we're featuring a brand new book by Professor John Turner called Joseph Smith, the Rise and Fall of an American Prophet.

We have covered nine chapters so far in this amazing book.

We are now up to the 1931, sorry, 1831, 1832

timeframe. Today we're going to be talking about Independence, Missouri. We talked about

Kurtlin last time, and we've talked about all the stuff before that. I won't rehash,

but I will say this podcast is best consumed in sequence. So if you're joining us for the first time,

go back to part one and start. And there's a playlist on YouTube that you can listen to,

or you can check out just the standard Mormon stories podcast theme on Spotify, Apple,

podcast, or YouTube. But start at episode one, join us on 10

when you're done. The only other thing I'll say is that we are super grateful for not just the

regular donors to Mormon Stories Podcasts that make this possible. We're also grateful to those

who have donated specifically to support this series with John Turner.

I'm happy to say we have received 145 donations as of this 10th episode.

And somebody donated $1,000.

A single person donated $1,000.

We're super grateful for everyone who's donated. And I would call out the

names of the people who donated, but I don't know, I don't have their consent. So I'm not going to

mention any names. I will say we've raised almost $9,500, which puts us, you know, I think if I'm counting right, it almost puts us through like chapter 18.

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