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.

Hi, Casey Griffith.

Hi, Scott Woodward. How are you?

So good, man.

This is a bonus episode, a Voices of the Restoration episode that we're doing this week.

So some of these weeks, we're going to have two episodes, sometimes one.

But anytime in your Come Follow Me curriculum where it says there's a voices of the restoration, we're going to try to

bring on a special guest who's an expert in that topic. And today, we brought on our good friend,

Kyle Walker. Welcome, Kyle. Hello. Good to be with you, Paul. Good to have you with us. And like Scott mentioned, this is kind of an experiment for us because they changed the Come Follow Me curriculum for 2025 to where there's still four scripture blocks a month. But then there's an additional lesson most months, not every month, but most, called Voices of the Restoration. And the first one is titled The Smith Family.

So they've given us a little space to explore the Smith family.

And that is what we're exclusively going to do in this episode, is just go through the members of the Prophet's family and a little bit about each of them.

And you are the expert on the Smith family.

So you've been studying the Smith family

for quite a long time. And Casey, do you want to give us the bio for Kyle and let everyone know

why he's the man to talk about this topic? Yeah, so let me read Kyle's official bio and then we'll

add to it a little bit. Kyle R. Walker is an administrator in the counseling center at Brigham Young University, Idaho, where he also teaches part-time in religious education.

He received his Ph.D. and Marriage and Family Therapy from Brigham Young University.

His doctrinal dissertation focused on the family dynamics of Joseph Sr. and Lucy MacSmith family, and he is the editor of United by Faith, the Joseph Smith Senior and Lucy Mac Smith family. And he is the editor of United by Faith, the

Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mac Smith family. He's also the author of the award-winning biography,

William B. Smith, in the shadow of the prophet. And he also has served as president of the

John Whitmer Historical Association. And just recently, I'm going to hold this up so everybody can see,

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