Welcome to Joseph Smith History with Dr. Stephen Harper, Part 2.

Lead us up to a beautiful, clear day early in the spring of 1800 and 20, 200 years ago.

So he decides that he's going to act.

The answer is not necessarily going to be in the words I'm reading on the page.

The answer might be in doing what other people have done before me.

The first revelation is if you ask wisdom, ask God.

And Joseph says, I decided I would give that a try.

So he's going to act in great faith, right?

It requires faith for him to try this out.

We use this phrase in the Church of Have Faith.

And I like what you're doing is an act of great faith because what we don't realize is

when I kneel down at my bedside, that's faith.

And I pick up the book to open it and read and ponder that's faith.

And sometimes we don't realize that having faith, sometimes we think of it as like the

force, like having faith as I just sit here and have faith.

Whereas acting faith is a completely different thing.

I think Elder Bednar was at 2008, a talk called Ask in Faith.

And he said, Joseph's question was not which church is right.

His question was which church should I join?

It was the idea of action that you're talking about right there.

Elder Bednar has shaped my thinking on this point and his emphasis on the agency that

Joseph is using here.

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