Episode 43 - Doctrine and Covenants 133–134, "Prepare Ye for the Coming of the Bridegroom"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Episode 43 Doctrine and Covenants 133–134 – "Prepare Ye for the Coming of the Bridegroom"
In this week's episode covering Doctrine and Covenants 133–134, I talk about preparing for the coming of the Bridegroom—fleeing Babylon, building Zion, and finding joy in doing God's work. From threshing wheat to sharing the gospel on an airplane, this episode reminds us that even the weak can do great things with God's help.
Preparing for the Lord's Return
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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. |
| 0:10.4 | This is Doctrine and Covenants 133 through 34. |
| 0:14.7 | Prepare ye for the coming of the bridegroom. |
| 0:18.1 | How is your week? |
| 0:19.3 | Did you get inspired to do a little bit of family history, to look up |
| 0:23.9 | some stories, to do some genealogy, maybe to call your family history specialist. Did you do |
| 0:30.9 | something? What did you do last week? Remember, if we're not doers, then it's just information. |
| 0:37.5 | Just curious what you did. Think about it. |
| 0:40.1 | My sister said something that I thought was really interesting. |
| 0:43.0 | She said that someone in her ward said, |
| 0:46.1 | What if our ancestors can't help us until they've been endowed? |
| 0:50.9 | Isn't that an interesting thought? |
| 0:53.6 | Like, missionaries go through the temple and get endowed before they go out to teach and preach. |
| 0:58.9 | Maybe that's another key component to why we need to do the work for our dead. |
| 1:03.8 | If we want them helping us and near us, maybe they have to be endowed. |
| 1:08.1 | Who knows? |
| 1:08.7 | But that was an interesting thought. |
| 1:12.5 | Okay, let's get started. |
| 1:18.7 | When the church was barely 19 months old, the prophet Joseph Smith and other church leaders laid out ambitious plans to compile God's latter day revelations into one volume and print 10,000 copies. |
| 1:26.6 | Double the first print run of the Book of Mormon. |
| 1:29.7 | Unfortunately, high costs tempered these plans and mobs attacked the church's press while |
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