Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This puts my thoughts into words!  I have often wondered how to express my feelings, after much study of early Church History.   I had many ancestors who were early members, and this helps explain their loyalty to the Prophet Joseph Smith.   Why I Can’t Manage to Disbelieve By Maurine Proctor  · September 1, 2016 Daniel C. Peterson gave this talk we are excerpting at the FAIRMormon conference in August, and  it can be read in its entirety here .  Sometimes people say “All right, name your single best evidence for the Book of Mormon” or “Name the three absolute proofs for the Book of Mormon.” Peterson said, “I don’t believe there are any such things. I think that what Latter-day Saint scholars – apologists, if you want to use that term – have thought they were doing with the Book of Mormon…is constructing a cumulative case, no one element of which is definitive, no one element of which will simply force, compel unbelievers to suddenly cave in, surr