Episode 45 - The Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 and 2 "We Believe"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I dive into the Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 and 2 and talk about what they teach us about revelation, change, and trusting living prophets. I share how the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon, help us sort truth from noise, why repentance and faith in Christ are so central, and how we can honor others' right to worship while holding fast to our own beliefs. In the end, I come back to Nephi's "nevertheless": we don't know the meaning of all things, but we do know that God loves His children—and that truth is enough to keep us on the covenant path.
Don't forget to read the extra resources linked in this lesson. There was a lot of interesting stuff there!
The Messenger and the Manifesto
Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah
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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. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Melanysdorf. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Melanie Strath. |
| 0:10.0 | I got, I think, what is my most favorite review. |
| 0:16.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:16.7 | It was entitled Voice Candy. |
| 0:19.7 | It says, even my husband likes this podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | He thinks she has a nice voice. |
| 0:25.1 | I guess that's good news for her. |
| 0:26.8 | She can eat all the candy she wants because it's the voice, not the body shape that counts. |
| 0:33.3 | Yes. |
| 0:34.2 | What do they say? |
| 0:34.8 | She has a face made for radio. |
| 0:38.2 | Anyway, thank you for writing that review. It actually gave me a little giggle and I am eating |
| 0:45.3 | Kit Katz in my closet as I record. So thank you for that permission. The other one, it makes me |
| 0:50.3 | want to live and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. You have been an instrument for the |
| 0:55.3 | Holy Ghost to teach me so many things, and one is that it's okay to laugh and be silly while |
| 1:01.2 | studying the gospel. Yes, I'm going to give you permission to enjoy the gospel and to enjoy |
| 1:07.8 | your study. And I do believe there's a time and place for everything. I believe that we need |
| 1:13.8 | to be reverent and that there are some things that we shouldn't be silly. But, but I have girls that were |
| 1:20.7 | up at LaMaya, camp in Maya with me in Arizona, like in 2004, that's still right to me and say, |
| 1:27.4 | I remember when you told this story |
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