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 again joined by my friends Richard Leduke and Jonathan Oliver.

Hello. Hey, how's it going? So I got a question for you about the various accounts of

the First Vision. So there's obviously multiple different accounts and there's different target

audiences for each one. Well, which one of them was then published first and became the most

widely used at the time and why.

So there's a couple of different ways to answer that question. I mean, again, go back to,

if you didn't listen to our first part, part one of this podcast, you probably should listen to it

because we cover some of these things but but second of all

it's important to understand that again they are not looking towards the first vision as as being

the reason why people believe the same way we are today they're looking at many other miraculous

events as being of equal importance as well as the Book of Mormon. So there are similarities.

But that is the great question. At what point is this first published to the world by Joseph?

And actually, that's actually going to come in something that's actually very familiar to

Latter-day Saints, but not for the same reasons. That's the Wentworth letter that Joseph Smith writes to John Wentworth.

Now Wentworth had he had asked Joseph for a friend

Can you provide for me the just a brief history of the Mormonites essentially

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