Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard

Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life

and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide

context for events of the past. They approach the

history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend Professor Richard LaDuke.

Hello, Garrett.

In this week's podcast, we wanted to talk about the restoration of the Melchizedic priesthood.

But before we do, we wanted to read a couple of emails.

Our first email comes to us from Elder Whipple, a missionary in parts unknown.

You're very wise to keep that a secret from us.

That's right.

I'll try to keep this short because it's my P-Day, and I have better things to do than to write commentary to you about your podcast.

We would agree.

First of all, you do.

You have much better things to do.

Much better things.

I would like to say that I do enjoy your podcast.

I did get it approved to listen to it in our downtime.

That's important because the last missionary who wrote to us was tasked with eliminating

unauthorized media and instead of eliminating us started listening to us.

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