Yeah, uh-huh.

Anything like that.

At any rate, uh, Buchanan just sends the army to Utah without any kind of investigation, without contacting Brigham Young, who's the governor, and saying, "Hey, what's going on?" The army just starts on its way.

And when word reaches Utah that a third of the United States Army, which the United States Army wasn't huge at this time, this is pre-Civil War, but it's still about 2,500... troops is coming, it causes a panic in the territory, and Brigham Young kind of battens down the hatches.

So that's part of the immediate context, is that the army's coming to Utah.

There's been very little to no communication between the Saints and the federal government as to why the army's coming.

So is the army coming just to exert greater control, or to forcibly evict the Saints from their homes-

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Some really, really good stuff.

He had a way with words, definitely.

Um, and, and they felt free when they made that manual to basically say, "We're not gonna have a chapter on Adam-God because it doesn't line up with the current teachings of the Church." As a living church, um, living prophets have the right to correct or amend what current, what former prophets have said as well.

It's a foundation that they build on, and sometimes, you know, in any good structure, you renovate.

You look at something and say, "That doesn't quite work.

Let's take it out, and let's put in something that's a little bit more stable." So that's maybe one adjustment we need to make, too, is that when the prophet speaks, it's always the word of the Lord, when what the Church teaches is something closer to, um, when a prophet speaks, it can be a well-considered opinion, but multiple prophets will teach the same thing.

Mm