1. One topic that I didn't really understand was the message that was never delivered related to plural marriages not being stopped outside of the U.S. I can definitely see the negative ramifications if it had been sent, but I think that if that was actually the way it was divinely supposed to be, the message would have gotten through another medium. I suppose I don't really understand any kickback or excitement about that story.
2. I really enjoyed the guest lecturer, in part because I had heard of things like the Deseret alphabet, but I had never known what they were used for. The examples she gave of Parley P. Pratt writing to his wife and John Smith writing to Brigham Young were fascinating uses of the Deseret alphabet to learn about. The use of the mason code and simple substitution ciphers also made me think that there must be other, lesser known uses of codes by members of the Church. I had never heard of the secret names in the Doctrine and Covenants either, so I was excited to learn about that.
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