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. Hello, Casey.

Hello, Scott.

How are you?

Doing well, man.

Welcome to the, what do we call on these bonus editions?

Special bonus material.

And it was a genius idea, I think, to include these supplementary lessons where we get to

dive a little deeper into the history surrounding the revelations and the

doctrine and covenants. And today we have a special guest with us, Dr. Daniel C. Peterson.

Say hi, Dan. Hello. Good to be here. Yeah, so good to have you with us.

We came locked and loaded today with Daniel Peterson. So we're very excited to talk about

Book of Mormon witnesses together.

And Dan, I want to point out that you're special because I think you are our first repeat guest.

No, we've had Brian Hales on twice, but you and Brian Hales. We interviewed you a couple months ago about succession in the presidency.

We couldn't think of anybody more knowledgeable than

you about the Book of Mormon Witnesses. So here you are again. Sounds good to be here.

Because you're so good at what you do. Here's a little bit about Daniel C. Peterson. He has a PhD

from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a professor emeritus of Islamic studies in Arabic at Brigham Young University, where he founded the university's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He has published and spoken extensively on both Islamic and Latter-day Saints subjects. He's formerly chairman of the board for the Foundation for ancient research and Mormon studies or farms,

and an officer, editor, an author for its successor organization, the Neale-A Maxwell Institute

for Religious Scholarship. His professional work is an Arabist, focuses on the Quran and on Islamic

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