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🗓️ 30 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson. John, we are in sections 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the Doctrine and Covenants this week. It's about the translation of the Book of Mormon with Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. However, the story I'm |
0:22.8 | going to share, John, is actually the translation of the Book of Mormon by Judy Brummer. |
0:28.9 | I don't know if you know this story, but it's the Book of Mormon. I know you're thinking, wait, |
0:34.3 | I thought Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. He did. But so did Judy Brummer. I'm going to tell you how. So, wait, I thought Joseph Smith translated the book Mormon. He did, but so did Judy Brummer. |
0:39.0 | I'm going to tell you how. |
0:40.6 | So, John, I think you're going to love this. |
0:42.9 | It's a little bit of a longer story, but totally worth it when you see how it all works out. |
0:49.5 | Judy grows up in Karoo, South Africa. She grew up to a very Methodist family. She said, I love my Methodist |
0:59.9 | family. They're hardworking, good, honest, decent farm, country, bumpkin people. She said her mom was |
1:07.2 | very educated. She taught us the Almighty God is not called Almighty for nothing. |
1:14.0 | He can do anything, anywhere, any time. Her mom, John, this is an interesting part of the story, |
1:20.7 | Gwenna, at a time when not a lot of women are able in South Africa to get a university education, |
1:27.3 | she was able to get one because her |
1:29.1 | parents, Gwenna's parents, so Judy's grandparents, didn't have any sons. What's interesting is |
1:35.1 | in South Africa at the time, if you had a bachelor's degree, you could keep your children |
1:41.9 | out of boarding school until they were 10. |
1:45.8 | Judy and her parents, her family, they grew up on this massive farm. |
1:50.6 | She said, if you did a 360-degree twirl at my house, there was no sign of any other human being. |
1:59.2 | My father owned a 10,000-acre ranch. On the ranch, they had some |
2:05.1 | servants working for them. And all of the families of all the servants came from families of the |
2:11.0 | same tribe, the COSA tribe, and they only speak the COSA language, which is the clicking language that maybe you've seen on a documentary |
2:21.2 | or something. You can look this up online. So, John, you can only learn this language from being a child |
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