Episode 44 - Doctrine and Covenants 135–136, He Has Sealed His Mission and His Works with His Own Blood" + Your Testimonies of Joseph Smith

Come Follow Me for Us

Melanie Stroud

Faith, Hope, Churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Religion & Spirituality, Jesus, Comefollowme, Christianity, Byu, Love

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This episode is about Joseph Smith. This episode includes testimonies from many different people.

From the manual:

The afternoon of June 27, 1844, found Joseph and Hyrum Smith in jail once again, accompanied by John Taylor and Willard Richards. They believed they were innocent of any crime, but they submitted to arrest, hoping to prevent violence against the Saints in Nauvoo. This wasn't the first time that enemies of the Church had put the Prophet Joseph in prison, but this time he seemed to know that he would not return alive. He and his friends tried to comfort each other by reading from the Book of Mormon and singing hymns. Then gunshots were heard, and within a few minutes the mortal lives of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum had come to an end.

And yet it was not the end of the divine cause they had embraced. And it was not the end of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There was more work to do and more revelation that would guide the Church forward. Killing the Prophet could not kill the work of God.

Please also watch this, I forgot to mention it on the podcast but it's one of my all time favorite talks about the Prophet Joseph Smith. It's called, "Safety for the Soul" by Jeffrey R Holland.

Safety for the Soul - Jeffrey R. Holland

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast for a feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it.
0:07.8	I'm a host, Melanie Straub.
0:10.9	This is a special episode this week. I'm really excited.
0:15.2	Hey, y'all, this is Melanie coming from 2025.
0:18.6	And I just wanted to say that.
0:20.5	I'm sorry there wasn't a podcast last week I don't know
0:23.6	why there wasn't a podcast last week I had plenty of time to put it up we actually stayed home for
0:29.5	Thanksgiving went to cracker barrel it was great but every time I thought to do it it just kept going
0:37.4	out of my mind and so I I didn't. And I was
0:40.2	like, oh, I'll put two up next week. And this morning, as I listened to this, I thought, I don't
0:46.4	even remember this little gem. It is such a sweet, sweet episode that's filled with testimonies
0:54.0	of Joseph Smith from lots of different people.
0:57.7	And it's worth listening to. And I don't know the reason why I didn't put it out last week.
1:02.7	Maybe Thanksgiving week there's too much hustle and crazy and maybe it would have gotten missed.
1:08.3	I don't know. Maybe you needed to hear it this week and you wouldn't have last week.
1:13.3	I don't know.
1:14.7	But please listen to the whole thing.
1:18.0	And I was going to take out the reviews at the beginning so it could just be the people's testimonies.
1:22.7	But there's a purpose to these reviews and it's not self-aggrandizing.
1:26.5	It's not saying I'm great at all.
1:28.9	It's, there's a little message that comes along with each review that I think's important,
1:33.9	because I think that we need to remember that our disabilities don't define us. I think we need to
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