Kirtland
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Oct 29, 2026
Mike DayHOST
I love that.
Mike DayHOST
So Joseph Smith had a vision of the throne and he talks about this in the context of his visions in Kirtland.
Mike DayHOST
Joseph Smith said, I saw the 12, the apostles of the lamb who are now upon the earth, who hold the keys of the last ministry in foreign lands, standing in a circle, much fatigued and their clothes were tattered and their feet were swollen and their eyes were cast downward and Jesus standing in their midst and they did not behold him.
Mike DayHOST
The Savior looked upon them and wept.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Each region's story provides a different, yet thematically similar, explanation for their existence.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
In the Kirtland area of Ohio, the legend tells of a hospital run by the sinister Dr.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Crow who performed cruel experiments, causing heads to swell with a condition resembling hydrocephalus.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
When the hospital burned down, the surviving melonheads escaped into the surrounding forest to live as feral cannibals.
Casey GriffithsHOST
under the saints.
Casey GriffithsHOST
The intent was not just to recreate Kirtland.
Casey GriffithsHOST
This is the prelude to everything.
Casey GriffithsHOST
The dead will seek after you.
16 MINS LATER
Scott WoodwardHOST
That moment must have brought back some powerful memories for Wilford.
Scott WoodwardHOST
Because like...
Scott WoodwardHOST
Like 40 years earlier, as a young missionary returning to Kirtland from the southern states, Wilfred had rejoiced when he first caught sight of the Kirtland temple.
Scott WoodwardHOST
And now decades later, he's approaching another house of the Lord, this time as an apostle, preparing to help open it for the salvation of the human family.
Merrill OsmondHOST
As I've been sitting here listening, you know, I'm a visionary.
Merrill OsmondHOST
I gave you a blessing when I was back in Kirtland with you.
Merrill OsmondHOST
I'm going to talk about that in a second.
Merrill OsmondHOST
But do you know how many people right now are crying their eyes out? I see it in my mind.
Neal RappleyeHOST
I was just going to say the Sandy colored hair thing is actually kind of funny because I don't know if a lot of people know about Francis Gladden Bishop, but he was someone who came around.
Neal RappleyeHOST
I think he was I don't know if he was in Kirtland, but he came, you know, he was in Ohio and thereabouts.
Neal RappleyeHOST
But this is after the church's Kirtland period.
Neal RappleyeHOST
This is later.
Neal RappleyeHOST
The church has moved on.
39 MINS LATER
Neal RappleyeHOST
And in that very first encounter, he's already got that polarization of the demonic force and then the coming of God and Christ, right? And so, you know, it just comes down to whether you have a testimony, I think.
Neal RappleyeHOST
And if you do, then, I mean, it makes... no sense unless you have actual evidence and grounds to the contrary, right? It makes no sense to think he was deceived several years into his career as a prophet after having had so many incredible experiences.
Neal RappleyeHOST
I trust someone who has stood in the presence of God, who has stood in the presence of Christ, who has stood in the presence of actual angels, who has had the kinds of experiences he had at the Kirtland Temple and things like that.
Daniel MinnickHOST
Joseph Smith Jr. also baptized his dad into his restored Church of Christ on April 6, 1830, which was the first official day of the restored church.
Daniel MinnickHOST
When the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, Joseph Smith Jr. appointed his dad as the first presiding patriarch of the church there in 1833.
Daniel MinnickHOST
So now, without giving a full biography of everyone, let's look briefly at Joseph Smith Sr.'s wife, Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Joseph Smith Jr., Lucy Mack had some similarities and differences with her husband on religious views.
Daniel MinnickHOST
While Joseph Sr. was loosely universalist, Lucy Mack was affiliated with Presbyterian churches.
Heather LynnGUEST
Do you think the other cryptids like that get reported are similar to the CIA child alien experiments or demons among us? Yeah, actually.
Heather LynnGUEST
What do you mean reported? What do they mean reported? just i think they're saying like cryptids that people like talk about like oh i saw a wendigo or whatever that is so i think so because when i've been looking into so i'm doing sort of a full breakdown on that idea of tokoloj because when kurt says he's like it's comedic but there is a lot to it and i'm trying to put together something on that and so one of the things that i came across is a local lore In Ohio, it actually goes a little more regional, but the hotbed of it is in this place, Kirtland, Ohio, where they have a story about melon heads and melon heads.
Heather LynnGUEST
It's a really creepy sort of creepy story that like, you know, everybody has like a crybaby bridge or something like that.
Heather LynnGUEST
So this is one of these stories in this town where.
Ben WilcoxHOST
How are we going to teach this? For an icebreaker, I like to measure out a 14 by 14 foot square in the middle of my classroom.
Ben WilcoxHOST
And I tell my students the story of the prophecy that Joseph Smith makes in the Little Log Schoolhouse in Kirtland.
Ben WilcoxHOST
I asked them to imagine Joseph making that prophecy when the entire priesthood leadership of the church could fit into a space that size.
Ben WilcoxHOST
What was the prophecy? Wilford Woodruff describes it.
6 MINS LATER
Ben WilcoxHOST
To conclude, show the takeaway slide, and then I always like to end by returning back to the prophecy made by Joseph Smith in that little log schoolhouse.
Ben WilcoxHOST
So I say something like this.
Ben WilcoxHOST
Do you know what I would really love to know? I would like to know what Joseph Smith saw that night in that little log schoolhouse in Kirtland.
Ben WilcoxHOST
What was the vision that he had of the church? Obviously, it extended far beyond those current circumstances.
Scott WoodwardHOST
And how do those go for him? Do you want to give us a quick summary?
Casey GriffithsHOST
Well, there is kind of this general feeling that Joseph Smith was bad at business because, you know, the failure of the Kirtland Bank and later things that happened.
Casey GriffithsHOST
But I just think that's unfair.
Casey GriffithsHOST
I think his calling didn't lend himself to be successful at business.
Casey GriffithsHOST
Brigham Young told this story once where he said, Joseph goes to New York and buys $20,000 worth of goods, comes into Kirtland and commences to trade.
Casey GriffithsHOST
In comes one of the brethren, brother Joseph, let me have a frock pattern for my wife.
Casey GriffithsHOST
What if Joseph says, no, I cannot without the money.
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