Follow Him Podcast: Episode 23, Part 1–D&C 60-62 with guest Dr. Gerritt Dirkmaat | Our Turtle House

Have you ever felt that your efforts fall short? In their month-long travels, some early saints work harder than others and the Lord addresses this and us and encourages us to remember that our testimony of the gospel is like a “talent.”

Join Hank Smith, John Bytheway and special guest Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat as they teach us how the elders are called to travel from Kirtland to Jackson County, Missouri, and, “Preach by the way.” This episode encourages us to serve and teach because the Lord is with us, as with the early Saints.

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00:00 Intro
00:44 Introduction to Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat
04:54 Background to Sections 60-62
08:10 Church Faces Difficulties with Headquarters Being in Ohio and Growing Membership in Missouri
12:17 Saints Found Success Teaching Native Americans but Government Stops Saints from Teaching
15:13 Saints Ask for Direction and Told to Preach Along the Way to Missouri and the Lord Isn’t Pleased With Their Missionary Efforts
24:25 Northerner Saints are Mistrusted by Southerner Missourians and Begins a Rising Tide of Anti-Mormonism
30:57 Joseph’s Spelling and Probable Accent
32:33 Difficulties Traveling by Steamship via River
35:42 Missionaries in Every Time Period Struggle Finding Success and Facing Disappointment
38:39 Tension Among the Saints Due to Temperature, Land Disputes, and Travel Difficulties, etc.
47:42 The Lord Gives Them a Terrible Experience Travelling via River in Order to Testify to Others the Benefits of Land Travel
52:43 Joseph Teaches the Saints Need to Expend Every Effort to Learn by Experience and Compare to Revelation
54:30 Satan Controlling the Water and Mormon Mythology
57:14 Ezra Booth Experiences False Expectations of Zion
1:01:05 For Times We Feel Forsaken by God
1:14:00 Elder Maxwell Describes the Knowledge of a Premortal Existence as a “Flood of Light”
1:15:00 End of Part I

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