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It’s been over 10 years, I now have my first ‘official’ assignment I have asked to do a summary of the missionary efforts in the Kirtland Era (page 30-33 of ‘Our Herritage’ manual)
First I am quite exited that I have been asked, I do wonder if this has had to be cleared by leadership…. Still don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth and all that….
So the question being is, do I play it straight and use the manual? Or do I try and bring in a little background history, not to get people to question at all but look at the picture beyond the manual.
Anyone know much about this era? Anything worth sharing?
Wow… Of all the eras… Are you familiar with the ‘revelations in context’ section of the church website?
Often that has far more than you’d imagine and is from an official church source so legit.
I’d play it fairly straight to be honest. People don’t go to church to have their paradigm shattered.
At the same time I also recognise the need for integrity. RiC is often a good balance.
If you find out what sections the lesson draws on you could look up the relevant RiC:
https://history.lds.org/article/revelations-in-context-index?lang=eng P.S. Congratulations on your assignment
I also was going to suggest the Revelations in Context stuff and the Joseph Smith Papers. There is a treasure trove of information in them. Been asked to cover 3 subjects Early Converts from Kirtland period who went on missions
The Qof12 who all went on mission from Kirtland
The first mission to England
Going to tackle it like this (i only have 10 mins)
Set a little context, in early 1800’s huge religous fever in New York and Ohio, lots of people looking for churches to get back to new testament religion with lots of sects popping up (and down). Looking to highlight exitement that the church was a part of.
DIscuss a few early missionaries from the ‘Our Herritage’ manual, how they sacrificed, left families and went ‘late’ – contrast that with the missions of today – teenagers going!
Also how Jospeh Smith went to Canada, despite problems at home (children deaths) problems in misourie, and discontent in kirtland
Then onto Qof12 – how it was originally organised specifically just to look after the church ‘outside zion only’ they wern’t just missionaries but overseers of the church where there were no existing stakes. Maybe draw up an diagram showing how it was equal to the high council of the ‘standing stakes’. Going to use a few quotes from ‘thomas b marsh’ about how he was the original leader of the Qof12 due to age.
Then onto mission to england, the challenges and sucesss, and i will mention the first baptisim in england who eventually ended up starting to write the journal of discourses.
a whistle stop tour, nothing too challenging there i think…
Sounds good I think being able to share things that make people simply think “I’d not heard that before” helps them to simply consider the reality that the history they thought they knew isn’t the one that is in the history books.
Nice one brt-exmo. A really interesting assignment. Went well, managed to get in a few plugs for the revelations in context site, and even Quinns origins of power ( I used that for quoute on the original remit of the qof12) Lots of compliments afterwards about how good mixed between comments on the interesting info and also supprise that I would take an assignment….
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