Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host

John DeLind. It's December 20th, 2024, and we are super excited today, again, to be covering

Joseph Smith's first vision. It would seem the most simple and straightforward part of

Mormon history, the founding of Mormonism that

many would attribute the first vision to being, you know, it should be as simple as Joseph

Smith tells us what happened and then God's one true church rolls forth like a stone cut out

of the mountains without hands to consume all nations.

But alas, it's not that simple, right, Sandra?

That's right.

So it turns out that in one of the most bold CEO, what is it,

SEO plays in all of sort of Mormon discourse in 2024.

A new YouTube channel has popped up called CES Letters,

which is just simply a brazen attempt at grabbing CES letter SEO

and then trying to promote apologetic, faithful beliefs through that attempt.

That's what we're doing.

This is an ongoing series of us, me, Herardo, Sandra, Dan Vogel, and sometimes a special

guest basically responding to the Mormon Church's attempts

in modern day to try to explain problems in Mormon church history.

So recently, BYU professor, I believe his name is Stephen Harper, who I believe is

one of the founding authors of the Mormon Church's first vision essay in the gospel topics essays.

He has recorded a new video through the CES Letters YouTube channel,

trying to help us all feel better about and restore belief in the credibility of Joseph Smith's first vision.

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