And the 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 the The Missing 16 Pages.

While I was researching my last podcast,

titled Daniel C. Peterson defends his honor,

I stumbled upon something that was absolutely jaw dropping to me.

It is so important in fact that it deserves its own episode because what I discovered

was up to this point unknown to me and I believe it remains generally unknown to most members of the church.

And what it involves is evidence of additional hiding and suppression of documents by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

relating to its early history.

I have been speaking in recent podcast regarding Letter Book 1, which is the name of a book in the possession

of the Church history department and has been from the earliest days of the Church.

The reason it is called Letterbook is because in early days this

book when originally purchased was basically what we would think of as a journal such as

the one you might buy at a store. It is a bound volume, it has a bunch of blank pages in it,

and the pages are lined for ease of writing.

These were widely available in Joseph Smith's day.

And the reason it's called a letterbook is because it was customary at the time.

If you wanted to preserve a letter that you were writing to somebody else, you couldn't go make

a copy at the nearest Xerox machine. Instead, you would actually have to copy by hand a letter

that you were sending out before it was sent out so that you would retain a copy for your records.

So what was done frequently and what was done in the early days of the church was that one of these

books with a bunch of blank pages would be purchased and the letters would be copied into the book.

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