Hello there, welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast dedicated to helping you

discover the scriptures in a fresh way, invest your mind and heart into your personal study,

and connect to God in your everyday life. We are your hosts,

Krista and Zach Horton, and this week we are back again with you to study in sections 58 through

59 of the Doctrine and Covenants. And this week we bring you a different ambiance.

I couldn't really hear the, I listened to the episode.

I know, I was a little disappointed. A few weeks ago, we had that rain that we thought might

appear on the sound. But this week, we have closed all the windows to try and get the noise of the birds out.

They're very angry birds in our yard and they just yell at each other all day.

I like to think of them as happy birds. They're singing. They sound angry.

They sound a little angry. So if you hear screeches in the backgrounds, it indeed is not our children.

It is birds, but maybe you won't even hear them anyway and we'll just make an excuse for something

you can't hear anyway. But this week, we have an continuation of, from our episode last week.

Last week we talked about that getting to Zion. How do we

find Zion? How do we get there? And this week is, okay, now that they are in Zion, they have found

it, they're getting to this place, and it is not as cool as they thought it was going to be.

In fact, it's pretty bad, pretty hard. Yeah, in fact, I've got a couple of descriptions from people that wrote about their impressions of Zion once they got there.

So this is W.W. Phelps who just said there were the people in Jackson County,

their customs, manners, modes of living in climate were entirely different from the Northerners.

That's the mildest one I could find. There's another history that mentioned the people living in

Jackson County were the basest of men

who had fled from the face of civilized society to the frontier country to escape the hand

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