Like Us, They Could Not See A Far Off—Genesis 5; Moses 6
Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast
Scot Facer Proctor
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
January 26-February 1
It was a beautiful fall day in 1894. The Manti Temple looked glorious as the morning light almost gave it a heavenly glow. My handsome, six-foot-four-inch, twenty-five-year-old Grandfather, Peter Daniel Jensen was there to meet and marry his beautiful twenty-year-old bride, Sarah Jane Rees. Family was gathered and it was indeed a day of joy and happiness. Grandpa was known to be a consistent journal keeper. How would he describe this glorious day in his sacred journal? I have seen what he wrote for Wednesday, September 26, 1894. It simply read:
“Today I married Sarah Jane Rees.”
Adam and Eve also kept a Book of Remembrance and fortunately, they recorded so much more! Let’s talk about that in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | It was a beautiful fall day in 1994. |
| 0:07.1 | The Mantic Temple looked glorious as the morning light almost gave it a heavenly glow. |
| 0:13.5 | My handsome 6-foot-4-inch 25-year-old grandfather, Peter Daniel Jensen, was there to meet and marry his beautiful 20-year-old bride, Sarah Jane Rees. |
| 0:25.3 | Family was gathered and it was indeed a day of joy and happiness. |
| 0:29.6 | Grandpa was known to be a consistent journal keeper. |
| 0:33.3 | How would he describe this glorious day in his sacred journal? |
| 0:37.7 | I have seen what he wrote for Wednesday, September 26, 1894. |
| 0:43.7 | It simply read, |
| 0:45.6 | Today I married Sarah Jane Reese. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, Adam and Eve also kept a book of remembrance, |
| 0:52.1 | and fortunately they recorded so much more. |
| 0:56.1 | Let's talk about that today. |
| 0:59.5 | Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. |
| 1:03.2 | We are Scott and Marion Proctor, and we are delighted to be with you again this week as we |
| 1:08.8 | study Genesis chapter 5 and Moses chapter 6 together. |
| 1:14.5 | When you read the Genesis account, you might think this is just a boring genealogy with not |
| 1:20.2 | much more information than Peter Daniel Jensen's journal entry. If you were to think that, |
| 1:27.1 | you would be wrong. Let's do some exploring |
| 1:29.6 | together as we look at our brave and majestic first parents, Adam and Eve, and their family, |
| 1:35.9 | the first family of sons and daughters of God on earth. I believe if we were given the chance |
| 1:42.2 | to see our parents, Adam and Eve again, we would be overwhelmed with our connection to them, the love that we would feel from them, their personal knowledge of us, and their majesty and glory. |
| 1:56.1 | Now, if you just lay out all the birth and death dates on a simple chart, you see that by the time |
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