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talking to scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be in

Doctor in Covenants section 2 and Joseph Smith history versus 27 through

65 and this begins with a vision that Joseph has

when he's a young teenager it's been a few years since the first vision and he writes in verse 27 I continue to

pursue my common vocations in life until the 21st day of September 1823 and in 1823 so he's 17-ish and he's he's praying because he got caught up in

jovial company and levity and the weakness of youth.

I want to talk just a little bit about the vision that he has of Morona in his bedroom

as we start this podcast.

If you've stood in that room where Joseph was and you imagine in

your mind a bed with his siblings they're all sleeping in that room one of the

things the critics against us say how could that vision have happened? How could

you see someone who was wearing a robe that was

verse 32 exceedingly white and their countenance like lightning this angel

that has whiteness and brilliance according to verse 31 how could that even be possible with all these people in the room and so

I want to talk a little bit about what Joseph tells us about his spiritual sight. We can read what Joseph tells us and what others tell us in the

scriptures about spiritual sight. Look in Joseph Smith history, verse 20 and verse 42.

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