Episode #118 – The Dream Destroyer
This Guy Has Nothing to Do With This Week's Episode. We Just Googled "Happy Mormon" and His Shining Countenance Showed Up
What an exciting week. We’re joined by… no one other than ourselves, and we like it that way. Lots of fun news to cover. And make sure to watch the amazing CES fireside with Elder Marlin K. Jensen below.
News:
- Church buys Haun’s Mill and other sites from RLDS
- Kansas City Temple dedicated – Al’s on-site reporting
- NASA scientist is translating the Book of Mormon in to Hebrew
- Be a guest conductor for MoTab! We call on the TWiM faithful to troll this thing.
- Teaching the Stone in the Hat
- The Mormon way of business
- Church changes its census reporting methods
- A Mother’s Day PSA
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The Kirtland temple never functioned like the Nauvoo or other temples. The endowment, baptisms for the dead, and sealing rituals did not start until the Nauvoo period and even then they were much different then today. While the initiatory did have its basics roots in Kirtland, that too was drastically different. While there are references to an endowment in Kirtland, is it not referencing the same endowment ritual that we know today that originated in Nauvoo.
See Al?
Thank you, Guest!
-Geoff
Yeah, what guest said. The Kirkland temple was a preparatory temple. It was built so they could receive the keys to perform the temple ordinances we know in our temples today. That's why Christ, Moses, Elias, and Elijah appear to them shortly after/during it's dedication. They needed the keys to be able to perform further temple work. But then even though Joseph held them, it appears that at least some of those keys went largely unused until later when Joseph was taught what was to be included in the endowment and other ceremonies, which didn't happen fully, until Nauvoo.
Heyo–I enjoyed this show a few weeks ago– just a heads up that this CES video is on autoplay when you come to the TWIM site. Not sure if that was the intention (it IS a pretty good fireside) but just thought you'd like to know. High-fives to you guys for some funny and informative podcasts– I keep coming back for more!