“In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.”

And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet’s plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.

And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.

The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn’t in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that’s what kept me in the church.

However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.

As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.