Unnamed Women of the Doctrine and Covenants: Amanda Barnes Smith
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unnamed Women of the Doctrine and Covenants, we explore the remarkable story of Amanda Barnes Smith, a courageous woman of faith whose trials during the early days of the Church helped lay the groundwork for an unshakable testimony. Amanda’s life is a powerful testament to resilience and spiritual strength. Her life had both joys and sorrows, and her story inspires us to build our own solid foundation of testimony amid life’s challenges.
Learn more about Amanda Barnes Smith on the Church History Topics Essays.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever seen a foundation to a building being poured? Did you know that it is more than just |
| 0:06.6 | pouring a lot of cement into a hole, which I didn't know because that's what I thought it was. |
| 0:10.5 | It includes several key steps to ensure success as well as deciding first what type of foundation |
| 0:17.0 | you even want to lay. Well, today's unnamed women of the Doctrine and Covenants will teach |
| 0:21.4 | us about foundations, and specifically about this woman's foundation and how the type of foundation |
| 0:27.1 | that she chose to lay made all the difference for her family and for us. Welcome to the Unnamed Women |
| 0:33.6 | of the Doctrine and Covenants. This is a special bonus series from the Sunday on Monday podcast. Now, if you're wondering, what is Sunday on Monday? It's a Deserate Bookshelf Plus podcast brought to you by LDS Living, where we take the come follow me lesson for the week and we really dig into the scriptures together. I want you to know more about us, so click on the link in the description or go to LDSliving.com slash Sunday on Monday for a free |
| 0:55.8 | seven-day trial of Desiret Bookshelf Plus. And by the way, you get over 4,000 audiobooks. So it's |
| 1:02.0 | really cool. Now, my favorite thing about the Sunday on Monday podcast is each week I get to invite |
| 1:07.1 | two friends to join me and discuss the scriptures and real life application. |
| 1:15.9 | So for this bonus series, I'm thrilled to introduce you to my co-host, Dr. Jenny Reader. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello, Jenny. |
| 1:19.9 | Hey, I'm so happy to be with you. |
| 1:25.3 | And we are so excited because we have a friend joining us and we love her. Who's with us today, Jenny? |
| 1:30.5 | This is Stacey Christensen. Stacey D. Hux Christensen. |
| 1:32.2 | And how do you know her, Jenny? |
| 1:33.5 | Tell us the fun story. |
| 1:34.7 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:40.9 | Stacey was my seminary teacher in high school, starting my junior year, studying the Book of Mormon. |
| 1:46.4 | And I just remember the scriptures coming alive for me. They had come alive before, but there is a new understanding and depth that I hadn't experienced. And that |
| 1:54.6 | has stood with me the whole rest of my life. I actually think maybe it was with me from the |
| 1:58.4 | beginning, but Stacey opened it up for me. Yeah. Oh, we thank you, Jenny. She has that gift. And I love because I'm friends with Jenny, then I got to be friends with Stace. So I love her. You got to share your friends. And I will tell you this. This is my favorite thing about Stace. I imagine whenever I go to Stacey's house and she opens the door and sees me, |
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