Episode 2 JSH 1-26
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This year, I'm excited to revisit and share some of my favorite episodes from the podcast. The curriculum is the same, so these episodes are just as insightful and inspiring as ever. Whether you're listening for the first time or diving back in, I know you'll find something to uplift and guide you!
Check my website for resources listed in this episode.
Joseph Smith—History 1:1–26
“I Saw a Pillar of Light”
This episode is about Joseph Smith’s first vision. This episode touches on the ways we look for truth, following the pattern of the first vision, and ways we can safeguard our testimonies.
Stand Forever – Lawrence Corbridge https://youtu.be/NSEsLtwKzvw?feature=shared
This talk by President Nelson was referenced in the manual.
Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives,”
This talk was the talk I referenced from the October 2019 Conference. Last talk of the day, simply “Closing Remarks.”
Closing Remarks President Nelson
Click the link below to be taken to the church’s website to read more about the different versions of the First Vision. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/first-vision-accounts?lang=eng
Click the link below to be taken to this week’s Saints reading/listening from the Church’s website. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-home-and-church-doctrine-and-covenants-2025/03-joseph-smith-history-01?lang=eng
Check out my book, "Feasting on the Words of Christ," where I share a simple, five-step method for receiving answers to your prayers through the scriptures. You're really going to love it!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.2 | This is episode two, Joseph Smith History. |
| 0:13.9 | I saw a pillar of light. |
| 0:16.1 | So I've been asking for reviews and there weren't any showing up and I was getting really sad and I got a message |
| 0:24.0 | from another app that I used to help track stuff and there's a whole bunch of reviews there. They |
| 0:29.7 | just haven't shown up on iTunes for some reason. So thank you so much to all of you who left reviews. |
| 0:35.4 | It really means a lot to me. I want to read just a few, |
| 0:39.3 | and then we'll get going with this week's podcast. The first one said, this podcast uplifted me |
| 0:44.9 | from a kind of long depression I had been in and got me excited about studying the gospel again. |
| 0:51.0 | Another one said, I stumbled on this podcast a few months ago as I was trying to feel the spirit |
| 0:55.4 | again in my life. These past few years have been hard for me spiritually. Opening the scriptures and |
| 1:01.0 | believing them were harder than it ever has been, but this podcast has been like a door that |
| 1:05.7 | has cracked open and flooded light into the dark room that was my life. When I feel especially |
| 1:10.7 | hopeless, lost, or lacking light, |
| 1:12.8 | I turn on this podcast instead of watching Netflix |
| 1:15.3 | or being encompassed in a worldly focus, |
| 1:17.7 | and every episode always has something I need to hear in the exact moment |
| 1:22.4 | to lift me up and help me put trust in God and his spirit |
| 1:26.0 | when I feel like I couldn't before. |
| 1:29.0 | And I thought that was so sweet. |
| 1:32.0 | Another one said, I feel hopeful that I can do this thing called Life when I listen to her |
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