Hello everyone, welcome to follow him. I'm John, by the way. I'm here with my co-host, Hank

Smith, and we are doing today a Voices of the Restoration lesson. For Doctrine and Covenants,

this year they've added a bunch of lessons called Voices of the Restoration.

Last time, we talked about who, Hank?

Garrett was here and we did the Smith family.

So glad to have Garrett Dirkmont back again.

And this time we're going to talk about the translation of the Book of Mormon, which is a great topic because there's a lot of questions.

Wait, how did that work exactly? Hank, what are you looking forward to today?

John, I just loved last time where Garrett taught us what it's like to be a historian and what

it's like to dive into the original documents and then pull out lessons.

And Garrett has done that for this topic.

More than pretty much anyone I know he has spent time on this particular topic in the original sources. That's pretty exciting.

Yeah. In fact, Garrett, I want to mention this book called From Darkness Unto Light.

It was co-written by Michael McKay and Garrett Dirkmont.

This is like the book on the translation of the Book of Mormon, and we have its author here.

We're really excited to have you here again.

Garrett, thank you for joining us today.

Thanks for having me back.

It's great to be with you guys.

Garrett, tell us a little bit more about this amazing project you did with Brother McKay.

So while we were working on the Joseph Smith Papers project, the volume that Mike and I worked on was documents volume one, which is the earliest records of Joseph Smith's life. And of course,

that included the earliest revelations. And, you know, as you're studying this part of the

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