S4 E54 When God's Answers Aren't What You Think: Nauvoo Temple (D&C 124)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Join us for the classroom of a lifetime as Steven Harper and Kerry Muhlestein teach about the New and Everlasting Covenant while on a beautiful cruise. We will visit beautiful places and learn profound truths. https://restorationtravels.com/nec-cruise/
In this episode Spencer McBride and Kerry discuss how the saints thought prayers would be answered, and how it was different, and how it became something more beautiful and amazing than they had hoped for. In the bonus material at TSAR.website Kerry goes through the history of the Relief Society and the Nauvoo temple, and some beautiful experiences in the Nauvoo Temple.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is for you if you've ever received a prompting and then things didn't work out the way you thought they would and you wondered why. |
| 0:07.8 | Or if you've ever wanted to know more about the power available in temples. |
| 0:12.4 | Or if you have any desires to build a Zion family or home or community. |
| 0:18.6 | This is going to help you. |
| 0:20.0 | We're with my former student who's now at the |
| 0:22.1 | Joseph Smith Papers Project and you're going to love it. And then for our bonus material, |
| 0:26.9 | we're going to talk about the development of the temple in Navu. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real. |
| 0:49.9 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us so we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm your host, Kerry Mulestein, and I'm so happy to have with us today. |
| 1:10.9 | A wonderful scholar, this is Spencer McBride. I don't know if you prefer for us to call you doctor or what you prefer for us to call you. Spencer works just fine. Spencer works great. So I'll tell you a little bit about Spencer. I know he did his undergrad at BYU, Hawaii, because we knew each other there. |
| 1:13.8 | But now he works for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. |
| 1:21.6 | He runs a podcast for them and works on all sorts of fantastic projects with that and has a great family. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm going to let him tell you a little bit more about all of that. |
| 1:24.1 | Sure. |
| 1:28.5 | After I left BYU, Hawaii, I went to graduate school in early American religious history. Well, religion and politics, really. Yeah. He wanted to stay away from |
| 1:32.9 | anything controversial. Yeah. Yeah. So you could have all sorts of great Thanksgiving |
| 1:37.4 | conversation. That's right. I'm entirely unfit for polite company. Um, but I finished my |
| 1:43.4 | PhD and was hired by the church to work on the |
| 1:45.7 | Joseph Smith Papers. So I've now been at the church history library in Salt Lake City for just over |
| 1:51.6 | a decade. Yeah. And you still look like you're an undergrad. So that's good. You are aging well. |
| 1:56.3 | So that's good. Fantastic. And a wonderful family. So well, thanks for being with us. We really appreciate it. |
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