And Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode elder Ballard blows up the church.

This past Sunday evening, November 19th, 2017,

Elder Ballard and Elder Oaks held a face-to-face broadcast with the young single adults of the church.

Over two weeks prior to this face-to-face presentation, Elders Ballard and Oaks produced a promotional video which was released by the church.

In that promotional video, Elder Ballard admitted that there were a lot of questions that they were receiving from the young single adults

of the church that they did not know the answers to and then very candidly said that those are the questions

that they would avoid.

So my expectations of what would happen at this face-to-face

presentation were severely reduced. I expected that Elder Ballard would be true to his word, they would winnow out the difficult questions,

they would focus on the bland questions and give appropriately bland and thoroughly expected

responses.

And for the most part, that is what happened in the face to face from last Sunday, November 19th.

However, Elder Ballard shocked me and shocked the world of Mormonism, and those interested in Mormonism by making an absolutely

unforced error at about 42 minutes into the face-to-face presentation and not even in response to one of the questions.

Elder Ballard declared that the Church does not hide anything from its members.

He said that the Church does not hide anything from anybody that he and Elder Oaks are thoroughly familiar with the history of the church.

They know the integrity of the church leaders and he stated that the church throughout its history has never hidden anything from anybody.

And he chose, as his illustration for this point, the first vision accounts.

As I say, he is not responding to a question, but he obviously is prepared to speak on this

issue because he has brought with him a black binder in which are some papers which he opens up at this point in order to reference

a 1970 article in the improvement era written by James B. Allen about the eight accounts of the first vision.

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