Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth Podcast. I'm your host Garrett Dirkmont,

and I'm joined by my friend Richard Leduc, and actually

another guest today.

Hi, I'm Jonathan Oliver.

Richard, what do we want to talk about this week?

Well, so this kind of falls in line with the general purpose of the podcast, which is to

help people gain greater understanding contextually of the history of the church to help

to strengthen their testimonies. And so we like to take questions through emails and other

sources and makes a lot of sense to have Jonathan in here. Actually, Jonathan's going to go ahead

and introduce the topic of what we're going to talk about today. All right. Yeah, thank you.

So I was just curious that, you know, there's multiple occasions. is going to go ahead and introduce the topic of what we're going to talk about today. All right. Yeah, thank you.

So I was just curious that, you know, there's multiple accounts of the first vision given by Joseph Smith over the years.

And I would love to know some of the differences between the accounts and why certain things

maybe are emphasized and others are not.

And how do you reconcile those

differences.

That's a great question and honestly a question that a lot of people have.

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