Welcome to Church History Matters, Come Follow Me Edition,

where we are systematically diving into every section

of the doctrine and covenants throughout the year 2025.

We have a lot to talk about today, so let's get into it.

Hello, Casey.

Here we are again, another week in the Doctrine and Covenants, and I say this every time, but I'm excited.

But this time, it's because we're meeting one of the seminal figures of early church history.

This block is Doctrine Covidence 6 through 9,

and this is where we meet Oliver Cowdery. Like, does he get enough credit for everything that he did?

Oh, seriously. And this is a man who is like household name, you know, in church history now.

It's Joseph Smith, Emma Smith. Then where do you go? Oliver Cowdery,

Martin Harris. I mean, he's one of the top names, and we are meeting him today, which is exciting.

He really is. And I think, you know, Oliver's excommunicated in 1838, but he comes back in 1848,

a decade later. I think if he hadn't, you know, taken a little walk about, his name would

be there with, you know, Brigham Young and John Taylor and other luminaries of the restoration.

He'd probably be even more well known than he is right now. But yeah, as it is, this is where he

bursts onto the scene of the coming forth the Book of Mormon. Yeah, and makes an incredible contribution right away.

I mean, without Oliver Cowdery, how do we get the Book of Mormon here?

I don't know.

Joseph was struggling.

He'd burned through a few scribes.

He'd lost some manuscript pages.

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