I guess I'm starting this one.
You're always awkward when you start it. That's Justin. I just like to start right off the bat.
No Justin's like,
"Okay, so today guys we're gonna talk about" or uh
he'll do like the hahaha laugh, "you know, it's like crazy, you know?" He does, I guarantee, you watch watch for it.
All right, well so we've got
seventeen prophets in this dispensation
starting with Joseph Smith on to President Nelson who is our prophet today, and we thought it'd be fun to kind of
give a couple of fun facts about these guys. About all of the prophets, every single one. We're gonna do it.
So we have our handy dandy list of fun facts here that come from a variety of sources, some are from
LDS Living and LDSFacts.net and lots of different places. Cut, dang it, I'm sorry. What? Yes,
We're borrowing things from LDS living. We love LDS living. They have not spoken about our show at all.
LDS Living has never talked about our show ever. They've never even referenced--
they actually had an article about 3 Mormons who were athletes not at the show 3 Mormons.
Obviously not us. They don't like us,
I don't know why.
Joseph Smith, fun fact I bet you did not know that when he was 14, there was an assassination
attempt on his life.
That's redundant. Someone tried to kill the kid. Yeah, someone tried kill him until he died.
Yeah until he was super dead.
But he didn't die because they shot at him but they hit a cow instead.
That's good. The more you know, the more you know. Somebody tried to kill a 14 year old kid.
It happens. If I were lying about this whole restoration thing,
when people start trying to kill me, I'd probably just stop there
but he didn't so maybe-- Well, they were motivated to kill Joseph because he was evil and he was the devil and
everyone knows you gotta shoot people if you disagree with them.
All right, moving on.
President Brigham Young only had eleven days of formal schooling and then he just stopped going to school.
So remember kids, drop out of school and become a prophet. I'm kidding.
Don't, don't, no bad idea. I'm joking, terrible idea!
Don't do what I just said and after 1862 of Brigham Young also wore dentures.
So yeah. He didn't have a lot teeth. No, he did not have a lot of teeth until he got...
Alright, John Taylor. John Taylor came third we know and Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow.
But we'll get to them and so John Taylor was in Carthage Jail along with Willard Richards
and Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith.
Obviously, we know Joseph and Hyrum were killed.
John Taylor, he took some shots. He was shot in the-- there's a list here. He was shot in the thigh,
he was shot in the knee, in the arm and in the hip at Carthage and ultimately he was shot
in the breast pocket.
But was saved by his pocket watch, the bullet hit his watch and that one didn't get him. After the mob left,
Willard Richards was leaving,
he was like trying to like get to leave and he heard John say, "Willard, take me."
Willard Richards took John Taylor into a different room to hide there for a while because he knew the mob was
gonna come back.
He had to like pick up-- It's such a sad story.
Wilford Woodruff had a really cool vision in the St. George Temple
where he was appeared to by a bunch of really, really important figures throughout history,
a lot of founding fathers and Protestant Reformation--
Reformation-- Protestant reformers and they're basically like, "Hey, we helped lay the foundation
right up until the restoration right here. So you should do our temple work. And he was like, "Okay."
That's what happened. That's cool. Alright.
President Lorenzo Snow during his third mission when he was 27,
he presented a Book of Mormon to Queen Victoria.
And it's actually still in the Windsor Castle to this day.
So there's a library there apparently. Yeah, there's a library in a castle and a Book of Mormon's there.
Great story.
All right, let's keep going.
Joseph F. Smith.
Okay. So when Joseph F. Smith was a kid, a mob attacked and they threw a
mattress on top of him and it almost smothered him to death.
The more you know. My gosh, they were always trying to kill the prophets. Yep. Yep.
Also, he crossed the plains as a young boy.
Okay. So Heber J Grant, he was the President of the Church during World War 2. He developed our
a lot of what our welfare program is today...
and...
dude wasn't that interesting as far as I know, we don't have anything interesting to say about him.
No! Cut, cut! So George Albert Smith, you know, I relate to him a lot.
He married Wilfred Woodruff's granddaughter-- which you've done as well. Yes.
And then he left for a mission a week later.
I've never married a girl and left for a mission week later, but I have dated a girl and left.
Where'd you go?
Just left? David O Mckay
David O McKay, all right. Dude was the education
master. So BYU hasn't always been like a formal university
but under David O Mckay, he helped convert it into an actual like four-year credentialized,
is that a word? University. Yeah, Joseph Fielding Smith
before he was prophet, he helped oversee the evacuation of missionaries out of Europe right before World War 2.
Or during World War 2. Prior to World War 2. So right before World War 2
that's what he did. So they got out of there
before the Nazis started...
All right, Harold B Lee was President of the church through the Great Depression and he helped people get jobs in the church.
He helped a lot of people get jobs in the church. It says,
so more than-- oh my goodness-- according to our information,
according to our sources
more than more than half of the members of the church during the Great Depression didn't have jobs and
so also, we talked about Heber J Grant and his involvement in the welfare program
and Harold B Lee also did a lot with the welfare
Program to help people get jobs. You know what's interesting,
I know that like the
stereotype about Mormons is-- it's also this
stereotype about Jews-- that Mormons are just very successful and the Mormons make a lot of money.
And Asians. And Asians.
Yeah, but Mormons for a lot of our history were not these business successful people, they were poor and always, you know
know like not just barely making it through.
And now when you think of a Mormon, you think of like a clean-cut, I've got a lot of money and a good smile.
They're like, "Ah, run!" You know, but for the longest time,
financially struggling, the Church was in major debt. Yeah.
And also
President Lee started the bishop's storehouse which at the time was called the Pioneer stake Bishop storehouse back in 1932
But I think bishops storehouse is a little better
there was a bishop storehouse near my where I used to live in Oregon and
If there was ever a zombie apocalypse, you got to get to the storehouse because it's usually pretty secluded
Well where I lived it was a secluded building high walls concrete had everything you need in there
I had of course stored water at a water pump
It had a little gated fenced area in the back flat land all around so you could you know
Snipe things out if you need to
I went on my mission. I left my family with a zombie apocalypse plan, which included the Bishop storehouse Thank You President Lee
well
You heard of here folks President Lee helped pave the way to survive against zombies
Spencer W Kimball
He was president of the church when the priesthood was given to all worthy males and the ban on black members was lifted
the number of temple temples doubled under president Kimball missionaries increased by 50%
This guy had a lot of stuff done and his most famous quote is we must lengthen our stride and must do it now
So Kimball sort of knew that there was an urgency to you know
Make everything better and he just did it sounds like the Saints responded. Yeah
All right. Answer tab. Benson is interesting before serving as president of the church
He was Secretary of Agriculture in the US government, but who called him it was Eisenhower?
All right, Howard W hunter president hunter served the shortest term
of a LDS president
Just nine months. Yeah, so a lot of people, you know a long time just like a baby
Um, but what Howard W hundred did was also he did something unthinkable
He helped establish
BYU Jerusalem, so right now in Jerusalem
There was a BYU campus there
And that is sort of you know that he was on this piece of land that like everyone wanted, right
Jews wanted it Muslims wanted it Catholics won that Protestants wanted it and they're like they all wanted it and
Then the Mormon guy just got all call. I don't think that and they're like what the Mormons got it. That's not
Okay, we did it. It's right next to the Mount of Olives. This is a holy melt of Olives
So our W hunter helped do one of the most amazing things in church history in my opinion
Right on. Yeah president Hinckley Gordon P Hinckley became prophet in 1995
He was the first prophet. I remember when I was a kid
So president Hinckley is pretty famous for being like he made a lot of public appearances. He was on 60 minutes
Larry King Larry is on Larry laning
He was in the public eye quite a bit gonna be Hinckley helped
Like.how step into like the public eye and like we're the Mormons
This is the leader of the Mormons basically and it's just really really cool
So he does interviews that people are like well, I guess sometimes weird to be thought we're just kind of talking about normal people
So and there's a great picture of him in a fedora
Or the picture from waving with the cane that's such a cute pic, that's great
President Monson who was the prophet when I joined the church
President Monson he
found this really amazing way to combine technology and family history to really make them work together and and helped do a lot for
Church history, you know opening the records getting these digitized
You know, the Joseph Smith papers would not be possible without President Monson and his favorite flavor of ice cream was lime yogurt
Yogurt
Lime yogurt
All right
president Nelson our current profit
So the last time so we all know he was a heart surgeon if you don't know that now
You know last time he performed open-heart surgery was in 1985 in China
He was called as a member of the quorum of the twelve in 1984
open-heart surgery in China
He was called as a member of the quorum of 12 in 1984 and in 1985
He performed his last open-heart surgery because he was a heart surgeon
Previously and so he performed a heart sir. He surgery while he was serving as an apostle which considering all they do
Without their previous careers factored in he was doing a lot also
He made a visit to Mozambique a few years ago with his wife and
they were eating with the mission president there when a bunch of
robbers come in with guns and that they say to his wife were gonna kidnap her and we're gonna kill you and
So they grab his wife they put a gun to president Nelson's head
They pulled the trigger and nothing happens
And they just like
Out of there the Lord is protecting the prophet or the the to be prophet at the time pretty crazy
I think the mission president's wife kind of broken arm, which is unfortunate
but at least president Nelson didn't get shot in the head and that's
Well hot dang well, we've talked a lot about the prophets the modern-day prophets and
There's some cool facts about them. This episode doesn't have a lot to give you dr
Lee just some stuff just a fun filler episode to watch
It's very information is there's a lot of stuff that I learned researching the prophets. There's a lot more stuff
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