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, Scott. Hello, Scott.

Hello, Casey.

Here we are.

Here we are.

Once again, Doctrine and Covenants 19?

Can we just pinch ourselves that we get to talk about doctrine and covenant's 19 for like an hour today, Casey?

And to get a whole episode just on one section is kind of nice because in some of these other ones, we've been really kind of running to get through everything. But this is a nice calm before the storm, because there's a lot of big stuff coming up. And this is one of the shortest, not short, but I'd say one of the sweetest, one of the tenderest sections of the doctrine governance. This section came at a time

in Martin Harris's life when he was struggling to make the most challenging sacrifice of his life. So,

let's get into it. Let's get into it. Doctrine Covenants 19 is received in the summer of 1829.

We don't know the exact date that it was given, but probably sometime around the end of June or the beginning of July 1829, Martin Harris is by this point one of the three witnesses.

So that's another thing to keep in mind is section 17 talks about the witnesses and what they're going to see.

And then section 18 is addressed to two of the witnesses, Oliver Cowdrey and David Whitmer.

And then section 19 is addressed to Martin Harris.

It seems like his experience really kind of reinvigorated him when it came to his

understanding of the Book of Mormon, his enthusiasm for bringing it forth. But we all have

those spiritual highs, and then we've got to kind of come crashing down to Earth.

And that kind of happens to Martin, too.

What happened?

Once they've seen the angel and held the record and had this tremendous, amazing spiritual experience,

now they've got to print the book.

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