Melanie Stroud

2021

Episode 49 – My Full Interview with Brittany Atkinson from May 2020

  This podcast is my interview with Brittany Atkinson who passed away on Christmas morning 2021. Back in May 2020, I interviewed many people about ways that people served them and their families during differing trials. I only used pieces of everyone’s interviews for those two podcasts, (Season 2 Episodes 22 &23). This podcast is …

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Episode 46 -S3 Episode 46 The Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 and 2 “We Believe”

This episode is about the Articles of Faith, Declarations 1&2 and includes my favorite review of late: Voice Candy. From the manual: In the 200 years since Joseph Smith’s First Vision, God has continued to give “revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge” to the leaders of His Church (Doctrine and Covenants 42:61). In some cases, that …

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Episode 44 – Doctrine and Covenants 135–136 He “Has Sealed His Mission and His Works with His Own Blood”

This episode is about Joseph Smith. This episode includes testimonies from many different people. From the manual: The afternoon of June 27, 1844, found Joseph and Hyrum Smith in jail once again, accompanied by John Taylor and Willard Richards. They believed they were innocent of any crime, but they submitted to arrest, hoping to prevent violence …

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Episode 43 Doctrine and Covenants 133–134 – “Prepare Ye for the Coming of the Bridegroom”

From the manual: When the Church was barely 19 months old, the Prophet Joseph Smith and other Church leaders laid out ambitious plans to compile God’s latter-day revelations into one volume and print 10,000 copies—double the first print run of the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately, high costs tempered these plans, and mobs attacked the Church’s press …

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Episode 42 – Doctrine and Covenants 129–132 “When We Obtain Any Blessing from God, It Is by Obedience”

This podcast contains my interviews with Elleny and Rick about genealogy.  So inspiring!  From the manual:  (Please follow this link to get to the videos that go with this lesson) Brigham Young once said of Joseph Smith, “He could reduce heavenly things to the understanding of the finite” (in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: …

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Episode 41 Doctrine and Covenants 125–128 “A Voice of Gladness for the Living and the Dead”

This episode talks about taking care of our families, the Lord knowing about our joy and sorrows, and baptisms for the dead. From the manual: In August 1840, a grieving Jane Neyman listened to the Prophet Joseph speak at the funeral of his friend Seymour Brunson. Jane’s own teenage son Cyrus had also recently passed …

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Episode 40 Doctrine and Covenants 124 “A House unto My Name”

This lesson talks about many characteristics of the early saints and the lessons we can learn from them.  It also talks about the residents of Quincy, Illinois that helped the struggling Saints as they limped out of Missouri. From the manual:  As difficult as the last six years had been for the Saints, things started …

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