Just this little spoiler, it starts talking
about a volcano. And I was very intrigued.
How dare ya! I was like, "Wow!" And it starts off with facts- and I've been a member my
whole life and I'm not ashamed to say I
didn't know some of the things that
they were telling me.
Okay guys.
3 Mormons here and we're gonna talk
about something really cool today. The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints is coming out with a series of
books, volumes of books about church
history and that initially-- don't click off, that sounds
really boring, really boring TBH. But these ones are a
little different because they're written
in a non boring academic church
historian type of way. Like it's, they're
narratives, they're narratoratives, they're
written like a storybook which is really
cool.
Of course it has real history in it but,
you know, you're not reading the
scriptures per se, does that make sense?
Well that's a good thing to know is that
these aren't scriptures. This isn't gonna
take place of reading The Book of Mormon
or anything but it's a way to learn
about church history, enjoy church history.
Yeah, you're gonna learn it all from the
beginning, from before the birth of
Joseph Smith to however long, we haven't
read through it...
I think that's really cool so you could get your
church history, you can read it like you're
reading Harry Potter or Narnia or the
nerdy books you guys read and you can
read them it'll be a lot, a lot of fun if
you read it like you're reading Star
Wars or Star Trek or Starburst and so. It's just like any other book really, it
has this story arc and I started
reading the first chapter and I was
very impressed. This little spoiler, it
starts talking about a volcano and I was
very intrigued, I was like "wow" and it
starts out with facts and I've been a
member of my whole life and I'm not
ashamed to say, I didn't know some of the
things that they were telling me but it
was in such an easy-- like so, so easy to
understand, it wasn't boring. I was
intrigued to see like, oh how is this
gonna connect to the gospel and I
loved it. And I think as the more
chapters come out, I think people are
gonna be very surprised to see just how
amazing church history. It's so
great! And it really isn't
that complicated, just a lot of wonderful
miracles so I'm really, I'm super pumped.
I don't know, like was there anything
else in the chapter that you saw? I think
what I like most about this chapter and
future chapters is that they're not,
they're not pulling any punches here
like they're telling church history, how
it happened in a way that, you know, you
can read it basically any age, young
adults can read it but it does mention
things like the volcano and you know,
things that happened in Joseph Smith's
family or parts of Joseph Smith's
history that you wouldn't normally hear
about in Sunday school or in Sacrament meeting. Right and we've, as you've heard
Joseph Smith's story so many times, you know, as
a missionary, everybody you meet
you tell it but this just had a
wonderful way, a very beautiful way of
telling us how Joseph Smith got to where
he did as a child to want to ask God
about the true church! It's definitely worth the read.
Yes and if you want to, if you want to
read more about it, all you have to do is
go to Saints.LDS.org or the Gospel
Library App so you just go to the gospel--
download the app, even you non-mormons
who want to, who are investigating, you
download that app, you download that app
right now. Don't you don't you go stop
doing it. You got all the scriptures,
you got the Conference and the music, it's great.
What they're doing is the church is
every month releasing a new chapter and
then once they've released all the
chapters then they're gonna put them all
in the book so it's basically gonna be
like, you know the Bachelor where every
week, every month-- it never ends-- you get to
have a new episode. Even better than the Bachelor.
And every month we're also gonna be
releasing a video just talking about
the chapter and I don't know, the
experience we had with it and so you can
look forward to that. How many languages
is it in? One. That is incorrect.
Correct answer-- I knew it wasn't--
Fourteen! That's one more than thirteen.
That's two more than twelve.
I get this question so much. Because, you
know, we Mormons, we're proud of our
churches, we'd like to talk about them, right? Because we have a
history in the same way the
Lutheran's are very proud of, you know,
Martin Luther, the 95 theses, nailing it
to the door. We've got a lot
of really cool stuff to talk about and
so you, with these books, you can, in a
narrative way that isn't so academic or
isn't so old englishy,
you can just read the history from the
restoration forward and it is a
wonderful series of books to read. So we
hope you guys can join us. We can have
like a little book club, you know, like we read a chapter. We were trying to do that. Saints is the book.
Just read the chapter every month and
then we just discuss and you guys put in
the comments how you felt. This one
we didn't want to put too many spoilers
but probably we'll talk more about
what's actually going on in the
other episodes but yeah we're just
really excited to be able to share this
and looking forward to just experiencing
this whole, all the church history with
you. Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna plug real
quick just so we have somewhat of a
summary of the chapter. So this chapter,
if you haven't read it yet, I'll give you
a little spoiler. Normally when you hear
about the story of Joseph Smith, you
start out with him in New York with his
family and they're poor and they're on a
farm and those are their circumstances.
This first chapter starts to explain how
they ended up in those circumstances and
as Justin mentioned, it involves
partially a volcano so if you want to
see more of our episodes go ahead and like
and subscribe. If you want to follow us
as we talk about the Saints chapters
we'll definitely... that will be in its own playlist too. And then we've got Instagram,
Twitter, Facebook, notification bell. Apparently it makes a sound.
That's what I've heard, I've heard it makes a sound, I don't know. Join our book club!
Sufficiently awkward ending. 3 Mormons.
