Thank you for bringing to life and adding insights into the lives of those who lived through the early restoration Tom! You certainly have a gift & talent which you are magnifying through your channel to the benefit of thousands across the globe. I'm from Melbourne, Australia so thanks again for also serving in this country. You rock!
This is sooooo important for all of us to know. Church history is fascinating! At times very sad, and many other times incredibly inspiring! Thank you for these videos!!!!!!!!!
When I was investigating this Church I wanted to read something from the Church leaders that proved that God still speaks to man today. The family who was friendshipping me recommended that I read their Doctrine and Covenants. I went to a special bookstore they knew of and purchased my own copy of all the scriptures of their Church, which included the Doctrine and Covenants. I was now able to read the Doctrine and Covenants first. THEN I read the Book of Mormon. I was baptized in June of 1984. I've been a member of this church ever since.
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH for all the time and effort you go through to bring this to us !! Thank you for teaching us through the spirit and historical facts.
Your videos give us an opportunity to visit these sacred sites in vision and spirit. Thank you for your work in spreading the Good News, Jesus Christ has restored His Church with the Fullness of the Gospel.
Love the choir at the end of video. Wonderful spirit, Tom. Great memories of the tour I went on with you and your Mother. You are a wonderful tour guide. You love the history of the Church.
Wow! You are so fortunate and blessed to have visited the sacred grove many times. That's one of our wildiest dreams most Filipino saints can imagine. But we believe and know its true, and it did happened😊❤. Thanks for sharing. Nice content.
Thank you so much, Tom! We thououghly enjoy your presentations, the added light you give to our Lord's gospel is wonderful and angelic! You have a marvelous speaking voice and delivery! We pray you and your family are richly blessed for sharing your time and talents to all who interested!
Thank you so much for your time and dedication. I have been to Palmyra area once, but l had recently broken my ankle, so l couldn't manage going to the Sacred Grove.
God Bless you Tom! Such a huge blessing, thanks for not only sharing your many years of experience and knowledge, but thanks for sharing your GIFT of teaching!!! I'm using your videos the help supplement my teaching for my Seminary class (16 kids)!
Really interesting and enjoyable explanation of the events of The First Vision. Love to see the photos of Church History sites. Helps to make me feep l'm actually there. Keep up the good work. God bless you and all your loved ones.
Thank you for the wonderful history of Joseph's family, I have often wondered how they fared through all the trials and tribulations they must have suffered.
Thank you , i could feel the spirit through this video. Just wish there was a way to print your video( words). You do such a great job and explaining it.
A very nice presentation. I think its interesting to note that at the time of the First Vision the grove was likely not green and leafy as the song implies. It was early Spring and the grove was probably still in its wintertime form with bare trees. Thanks from your efforts to make Church History come alive.
I just love listening to you, I really appreciate your animation and the stories, another man came up on utube he talked a lot about how he was an institute teacher and how he has all these followers and it was a lot of Me me, I , I . I am so great.. etc I decided to not subscribe to him because it wasn’t as interesting as the way you portray it. so I thank you for your efforts your animation and your stories , truly you are a gift and a blessing from God ! there are those of us who cannot stay focused long enough to hear a Mundane prideful speaker ramble on. you have made the presentation of this material absolutely phenomenal and wonderful !! thank you so much for not teaching the material but for opening ways of learning and knowing and bringing in another point of view🥰
They are all good ! I love listening to all the Come Follow Me lesson channels. What a great blessing to be able to hear from so many scripture experts !
Thank you very much for what you have shared. It was very interesting and fortifying. Thank you for taking time to teach us and help us better understand and appreciate the stories behind Church history. God bless you.
Thank you very much for taking me on a virtual tour at the Sacred Grove where it's so impossible for an asian to visit.I have felt the spirit and the truthfulness of the first vision.You helped me with a lot of insights as a Sunday school teacher. I'm glad I found your video,and looking forward for the whole year round.
11:19 Moroni dedicates sites, I love this 14:42 God puts people as prophesied, in their right place, so my eternal companion will also be so, where is the tall red man? 17:07 see the book , the Savior in Kirtland by Karl Ricks Anderson, reason for Ohio pg 8 "northwest ordinance of 1787 27:09 Josephs beautiful preparation and perhaps expectation 27:40 home ground is sacred ground 35:54 TESTIMONY that makes sense why Savior appeared, His Atonement is a reality
I have loved gaining a greater knowledge of church history through your videos! My husband and I are in charge of State Trek out here in Tooele Utah. Your testimony and knowledge have blessed us so much as we prepare a trek during this crazy time. You are touching more lives than you know.
Utterly amazing presentation! I will be sharing your weekly presentation on my social media for my church friends to learn more about you , Thankyou the spirit was beautiful
Thank you so much for these wonderful insights! I especially like where you reference our current prophet teaching us how we can have a life of personal revelation. @31:31 Starting a journal today! @35:25- This pairs so nicely with the Come Follow Me Section, in "The Saints"; that he had learned he was a sinner but didn't know the way to access the atonement. I think it is an interesting insight into Joseph's intents and motivations. See also Saints, 1:3-19. page 10: paragraph 17. Note: edited multiple times for spelling, video references, and text references. 😅
I have only been able to find reference to Brigham Young mentioning the temple site dedication of Manti. Would you be able to point me toward references of the other temple site dedications?
Yes, please give the references for quotes and facts on your web site with each lesson. I too was searching for where this information might have been foun
Willford Woodruff also mentions as the Manti site being dedicated by Moroni ,also that was the last time the seer stone was placed on the alter of the Manti Temple dedication . It's in several books ,one being Journal of Discourse, I would need to look which number ,Journal number,these are the original Journals of Discourse, I don't know if they ar3 even in print anymore,I'm sure you can find rhem,both Brigham Young and President Woodruff are in the J of D .
Tom Pettit, we had a bishop named Tom Pettit in Santa Monica, CA in the 1980’s while my husband was a graduate student at UCLA. Are you by chance related to him?
There's a really good book, "Heaven's Ditch" that helps explain the building of the Erie Canal along with the origins of the Charismatic Movement. If you ignore the slurs and Bushman quotes; anti crap altogether, it does have some interesting insights. Many of our early church leaders were named after some of the original preachers. What's interesting is the birth of the church was in the heart of religious fervor where they could fly under the radar while the Lord builds his restored Church.
you only told half of the James 1:5 story, the Rev was Rev Lane on many occasion Rev Lane preached for 3 hours on James 1:5 this had a great influence on Joseph.
I am really loving the videos you have put out so far. I teach seminary and prepare those lessons two weeks in advance. Is it possible to have you get ahead by a week so I can share your insights with my seminary kids? Thanks so much!
Thank you for everything that you shared,can you tell me where i can find those accounts about moroni dedicating temple sites? i love reading church history and love your videos.
I’d love more information regarding Moroni and dedicating sites as well. Very interesting. Thank you for your videos. You are very articulate and get straight to the point and don’t waste our time with frivolous chatter. Thank you for greater teachings!
in order for man to see God, there must be some sort of translation going on.......I have wondered if in the light he saw, this was also a time of being translated to be able to see God
In your description of Joseph Smith as a young boy you mentioned he was in charge of the "beer and cake" cart and then say they sold Root beer. My question is what is your source that says they sold "root beer"? After doing some research it seems that "beer & cake" carts were common and what was sold was actual beer not "root beer" in that Root beer was more commonly sold as syrup and did not commonly appear as a carbonated drinks until decades later. It appears you or your source is trying to sanitize the Smith's history to fit modern LDS norms. There would have been nothing wrong with the Smith's selling beer as there was no word of wisdom and beer of the time was a common food source. In fact until the early 20th century the church manufactured sacramental wine. This need by some members to sanitize LDS history only reduces credibility.
Anthony do you have any source confirming it was alcoholic beer? I do agree that we shouldn't sanitize our past and that we presenting our past we should be accurate in our reporting events from history. Sometimes close enough isn't good enough.
Great job. I knew you would straiten us all out. I am old and need a refreshing lesson. Bette Lasley
Thank you for bringing to life and adding insights into the lives of those who lived through the early restoration Tom! You certainly have a gift & talent which you are magnifying through your channel to the benefit of thousands across the globe. I'm from Melbourne, Australia so thanks again for also serving in this country. You rock!
This is sooooo important for all of us to know. Church history is fascinating! At times very sad, and many other times incredibly inspiring! Thank you for these videos!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video.
When I was investigating this Church I wanted to read something from the Church leaders that proved that God still speaks to man today.
The family who was friendshipping me recommended that I read their Doctrine and Covenants. I went to a special bookstore they knew of and purchased my own copy of all the scriptures of their Church, which included the Doctrine and Covenants.
I was now able to read the Doctrine and Covenants first. THEN I read the Book of Mormon.
I was baptized in June of 1984. I've been a member of this church ever since.
That's awesome! Thanks Lori.
Those pictures at the end!!! Wow!!
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH for all the time and effort you go through to bring this to us !! Thank you for teaching us through the spirit and historical facts.
3 years later, thank you.
I learned so much....I learned things I have never known before......thank you...
Your videos give us an opportunity to visit these sacred sites in vision and spirit. Thank you for your work in spreading the Good News, Jesus Christ has restored His Church with the Fullness of the Gospel.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Thank you Tom!! I admire and enjoy the passion by which you give the details in the history! Blessings to you and family!
Thank you very much Dina!
Wonderful historical insights and the pictures of the sacred grove are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tom. Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. Love going with you on your adventure to each of these places. Loved the Sacred Grove pictures and music.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the choir at the end of video. Wonderful spirit, Tom. Great memories of the tour I went on with you and your Mother. You are a wonderful tour guide. You love the history of the Church.
Hi Billie! Great to hear from you.
Tom
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the restoration!!
Thank you for bringing His Spirit into my home.
How blessed we all are that you are doing these videos! Thank you so much for sharing your testimony and knowledge ❤️ God bless you and your family!!
Thank you so much!
Wow! You are so fortunate and blessed to have visited the sacred grove many times. That's one of our wildiest dreams most Filipino saints can imagine. But we believe and know its true, and it did happened😊❤. Thanks for sharing. Nice content.
Thank you so much, Tom! We thououghly enjoy your presentations, the added light you give to our Lord's gospel is wonderful and angelic! You have a marvelous speaking voice and delivery! We pray you and your family are richly blessed for sharing your time and talents to all who interested!
You are very welcome! Thanks very much for your kind comments.
Thank you so much! We are so blessed to have technology such as this so we can learn from you!
Thank you so much for your time and dedication. I have been to Palmyra area once, but l had recently broken my ankle, so l couldn't manage going to the Sacred Grove.
God Bless you Tom! Such a huge blessing, thanks for not only sharing your many years of experience and knowledge, but thanks for sharing your GIFT of teaching!!! I'm using your videos the help supplement my teaching for my Seminary class (16 kids)!
Thanks for your kind comments! How great that you get to teach seminary...to such a large group!
Brilliant! Perfect compliment to studying Joseph Smith's history. Thank You.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you.
Appreciate the background history surrounding Joseph’s family. Great job!👍👌🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for taking time and teaching us truth! I love Joseph Smith so much. God Bless you! ♥️
Another amazing video! I just love each and every one of your videos. Thank you!!!
You are so welcome!
Really interesting and enjoyable explanation of the events of The First Vision. Love to see the photos of Church History sites. Helps to make me feep l'm actually there. Keep up the good work. God bless you and all your loved ones.
Thanks for the kind comments.
Thank you for the wonderful history of Joseph's family, I have often wondered how they fared through all the trials and tribulations they must have suffered.
Nice touch with the song and pictures mid video
Tom, what a great servant you are of the Lord! Love you brother, and i will indeed greet you if not in this life, in the hereafter❤️
Absolutely. Thanks!
Thank you , i could feel the spirit through this video. Just wish there was a way to print your video( words). You do such a great job and explaining it.
A very nice presentation. I think its interesting to note that at the time of the First Vision the grove was likely not green and leafy as the song implies. It was early Spring and the grove was probably still in its wintertime form with bare trees. Thanks from your efforts to make Church History come alive.
Very true! The leaves don't come out until June.
Thank you so much for your stories. I appreciate. I will use some thoughts for my seminaryclasse. Greatings from switzerland Chantal
Switzerland! I am glad we've connected.
I just love listening to you, I really appreciate your animation and the stories, another man came up on utube he talked a lot about how he was an institute teacher and how he has all these followers and it was a lot of Me me, I , I . I am so great.. etc
I decided to not subscribe to him because it wasn’t as interesting as the way you portray it. so I thank you for your efforts your animation and your stories , truly you are a gift and a blessing from God ! there are those of us who cannot stay focused long enough to hear a Mundane prideful speaker ramble on. you have made the presentation of this material absolutely phenomenal and wonderful !!
thank you so much for not teaching the material but for opening ways of learning and knowing and bringing in another point of view🥰
You're awesome MJ!
They are all good ! I love listening to all the Come Follow Me lesson channels. What a great blessing to be able to hear from so many scripture experts !
Cut itinerary half.
Very well said, MJ. Br Pettit is blessed with a wonderful gift to teach, for which I'm so grateful. 😊🇦🇺
Thank you very much for what you have shared. It was very interesting and fortifying. Thank you for taking time to teach us and help us better understand and appreciate the stories behind Church history. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing what you have spent years learning. I for one, appreciate it.
My pleasure!
I love that you've included the photos in the background. Thank you
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you very much for taking me on a virtual tour at the Sacred Grove where it's so impossible for an asian to visit.I have felt the spirit and the truthfulness of the first vision.You helped me with a lot of insights as a Sunday school teacher. I'm glad I found your video,and looking forward for the whole year round.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for taking the time and efforts to share so much.
I love your channel, Brother Pettit! Thank you for your efforts!
You are very welcome
11:19 Moroni dedicates sites, I love this
14:42 God puts people as prophesied, in their right place, so my eternal companion will also be so, where is the tall red man?
17:07 see the book , the Savior in Kirtland by Karl Ricks Anderson, reason for Ohio pg 8 "northwest ordinance of 1787
27:09 Josephs beautiful preparation and perhaps expectation
27:40 home ground is sacred ground
35:54 TESTIMONY that makes sense why Savior appeared, His Atonement is a reality
Thank you! Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
I have loved gaining a greater knowledge of church history through your videos! My husband and I are in charge of State Trek out here in Tooele Utah. Your testimony and knowledge have blessed us so much as we prepare a trek during this crazy time. You are touching more lives than you know.
Thanks very much! I love trek, how exciting.
Wonderful! I just got called as a "Ma" here in Taylorsville. 😁 Excited to learn together.
Thank you, Brother Pettit.
You are very welcome
Beautiful... thank you.
Utterly amazing presentation! I will be sharing your weekly presentation on my social media for my church friends to learn more about you , Thankyou the spirit was beautiful
Thanks MJ for your kind words!
Excellent!!!
Many thanks!
love the stories.
wonderful info and beautiful video of grove!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! I've never heard about the beer and cake cart:)
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for these wonderful insights! I especially like where you reference our current prophet teaching us how we can have a life of personal revelation.
@31:31 Starting a journal today!
@35:25- This pairs so nicely with the Come Follow Me Section, in "The Saints"; that he had learned he was a sinner but didn't know the way to access the atonement. I think it is an interesting insight into Joseph's intents and motivations.
See also Saints, 1:3-19. page 10: paragraph 17.
Note: edited multiple times for spelling, video references, and text references. 😅
Thank you. Your lessons really do stay on topic. Please tell us if you are teaching seminary or institute.
So wonderful thank you for your insight.
You are so welcome
Your good
What about the details of the leg operation and how it affected Joseph? What about the trip to Palmyra where Joseph had to walk, though crippled?
So many stories! I'll tackle those stories in another video. Thanks for the suggestion.
These are expounded in "The Saints" which is referenced in the come follow me manual.
I had never heard of Moroni dedicating future temple sites! WOW! Can you provide me with the sources for that information please?
I have only been able to find reference to Brigham Young mentioning the temple site dedication of Manti. Would you be able to point me toward references of the other temple site dedications?
Yes, please give the references for quotes and facts on your web site with each lesson. I too was searching for where this information might have been foun
Willford Woodruff also mentions as the Manti site being dedicated by Moroni ,also that was the last time the seer stone was placed on the alter of the Manti Temple dedication . It's in several books ,one being Journal of Discourse, I would need to look which number ,Journal number,these are the original Journals of Discourse, I don't know if they ar3 even in print anymore,I'm sure you can find rhem,both Brigham Young and President Woodruff are in the J of D .
Tom Pettit, we had a bishop named Tom Pettit in Santa Monica, CA in the 1980’s while my husband was a graduate student at UCLA. Are you by chance related to him?
I don't know a Tom Pettit from Santa Monica. Nice name though!
Can anyone tell me where the "He is here" quote came from? I LOVE IT!!!!
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I start quoting the video at about the half way mark.
@@storiesoftherestoration2080 Thank you so much!!!
I wonder how much the collection of plates etc weighed
It is estimated that the plates weighed about 50 lbs.
They had a demonstration of this in the Church art museum. We were lucky to see it right before Covid shut everything down.
There's a really good book, "Heaven's Ditch" that helps explain the building of the Erie Canal along with the origins of the Charismatic Movement. If you ignore the slurs and Bushman quotes; anti crap altogether, it does have some interesting insights. Many of our early church leaders were named after some of the original preachers.
What's interesting is the birth of the church was in the heart of religious fervor where they could fly under the radar while the Lord builds his restored Church.
you only told half of the James 1:5 story, the Rev was Rev Lane on many occasion Rev Lane preached for 3 hours on James 1:5 this had a great influence on Joseph.
Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful insights!!!
You are correct. Thank you!
Where is this information found?
I am really loving the videos you have put out so far. I teach seminary and prepare those lessons two weeks in advance. Is it possible to have you get ahead by a week so I can share your insights with my seminary kids? Thanks so much!
More music please!
Thank you for everything that you shared,can you tell me where i can find those accounts about moroni dedicating temple sites? i love reading church history and love your videos.
I’d love more information regarding Moroni and dedicating sites as well. Very interesting.
Thank you for your videos. You are very articulate and get straight to the point and don’t waste our time with frivolous chatter. Thank you for greater teachings!
in order for man to see God, there must be some sort of translation going on.......I have wondered if in the light he saw, this was also a time of being translated to be able to see God
what is the name of the song?
Thanks for sharing. I love your channel. You might want to change "JST" in your video title to "JSH"
Whoops! Thanks for catching that. I've made the correction.
In your description of Joseph Smith as a young boy you mentioned he was in charge of the "beer and cake" cart and then say they sold Root beer. My question is what is your source that says they sold "root beer"?
After doing some research it seems that "beer & cake" carts were common and what was sold was actual beer not "root beer" in that Root beer was more commonly sold as syrup and did not commonly appear as a carbonated drinks until decades later.
It appears you or your source is trying to sanitize the Smith's history to fit modern LDS norms.
There would have been nothing wrong with the Smith's selling beer as there was no word of wisdom and beer of the time was a common food source. In fact until the early 20th century the church manufactured sacramental wine.
This need by some members to sanitize LDS history only reduces credibility.
I had heard the story as it being root beer. Perhaps that wasn't correct.
Anthony do you have any source confirming it was alcoholic beer?
I do agree that we shouldn't sanitize our past and that we presenting our past we should be accurate in our reporting events from history. Sometimes close enough isn't good enough.
Thank you. Wonderful insight 🙏