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<\/a>This is a stunning story about the converting power of the Book of Mormon and about the motivating power of personal faith: \u00a0\u201cRefugee walks 728 miles to be baptized after reading Book of Mormon:\u00a0Amos Makulu walked across Tanzania to be baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. Now in New York, he is instrumental in creating a Swahili-speaking branch.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n It offers yet another example of the fascinating stories that are emerging out of Africa as the Restoration touches lives there. \u00a0It\u2019s to preserve and to tell at least a few of these stories that Jeff Bradshaw has, with the backing of the Interpreter Foundation, undertaken his Not by Bread Alone<\/em> video project<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful to have recorded video interviews with faithful early Latter-day Saints in which they told their own stories of inspiration, challenges, faith, persecution, revelation, and miracles? \u00a0Well, we have something like that opportunity in the case of Africa. \u00a0And many of the pioneer figures are still alive. \u00a0Some are no longer with us, but, happily, the film Pioneers of Africa<\/em>, which I mentioned in my previous blog entry, captured footage of several of them prior to their passing. \u00a0As the years go by, such things will be an inestimable treasure to rising generations of Latter-day Saints. \u00a0Fortunately, too, at least one or two representative stories out of Africa will be featured in the forthcoming fourth volume of Saints<\/em>: \u00a0\u201cHow a team created the \u2018elaborate and intricate\u2019 narrative arc that spans 4 volumes of \u2018Saints\u2019:\u00a0Historians and writers used a 3-act structure for each volume of the new history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to create a more narrative experience of reading history\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n It isn\u2019t coincidental, by the way, that the forthcoming Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August<\/em> will also culminate with a temple theme. \u00a0I hope that you\u2019ll notice.<\/p>\n If you would like to listen in on the third installment in the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s Mesoamerica Lecture Series \u2014 which is aimed principally at those who will be participating in the Foundation\u2019s Mesomerican tour late next month and into early November \u2014 you\u2019re welcome to join us. \u00a0The lecture will take place tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 4, at 7:00 PM MDT (Utah time). \u00a0Please log in a few minutes early by means of this link: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/84094879926<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Kerry Hull<\/a> will address the issue of \u201cMesoamerican Writing Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n Writing has been independently invented five times in human history, and one of those was in ancient Mesoamerica. This lecture exams the various writing systems that developed beginning 3,000 years ago in Mesoamerica. There are more than a dozen attested forms of writing in the region, many coinciding with Book of Mormon populations. I will examine the nature of logographic and syllabic forms of representation in Mesoamerica, the sophistication and aesthetic beauty of their icons, and the different types of attested media on which writing occurred, including on gold. Finally, I will discuss the content and themes of Mesoamerican writing, focusing primarily on Maya hieroglyphic Mayan (since it is the best attested), but also looking at earlier forms that were present in Jaredite times.<\/p>\n Kerry Hull is a Professor in the department of Religion at Brigham Young University. He earned a B.A. in Spanish and B.A. in French in 1992 from Utah State University. He received an M.S. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1993. He completed a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. His academic interests include Maya linguistics and anthropology, Polynesian linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Maya epigraphic studies. He has conducted linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeological fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. He specializes in the language and culture of the Ch\u2019orti\u2019 Maya of southern Guatemala. He has also carried out linguistic fieldwork on the Ua Pou dialect of Northern Marquesan and on the dialect used on the island of Raivavae in the Austral chain in French Polynesia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n THIS LECTURE WILL NOT BE RECORDED.<\/strong><\/p>\n Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 37: \u201cGlad Tidings of Great Joy\u201d: Helaman 13-16<\/a><\/p>\n In their 18 August 2024 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner and Kris Frederickson discussed Book of Mormon lesson 37, \u201cGlad Tidings of Great Joy\u201d covering Helaman 13-16.<\/p>\n Their conversation was recorded. \u00a0Moreover, it has now been freed from commercial and other interruptions, archived, and made available for your listening convenience via the link given immediately above.\u00a0 The other segments of the 18 August 2024 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-august-18-2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Interpreter Radio Show is broadcast every single week of the year, with rotating teams of volunteer hosts. \u00a0It can be heard live on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. \u00a0Or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And, while I\u2019m on the subject of the media, permit me to mention an article that has appeared on a website entitled Religion Unplugged<\/em>. \u00a0I believe that Jennifer Hicks deserves great respect for her willingness to speak out publicly: \u00a0\u201cHollywood Offers Harmful And Misleading Latter-Day Saints Portrayals\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Finally: \u00a0I had just finished a chapter in the book that I\u2019m currently reading for pure relaxation at bedtime. \u00a0Suddenly it hit me \u2014 within seconds, quite unexpectedly and out of the blue: \u00a0Gazpacho<\/em> is a really funny word. \u00a0(The book is Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/em>, as translated into prose by T. E. Shaw. \u00a0It never mentions gazpacho.) \u00a0There are, of course, several other really funny words, speaking of their sheer sound and not of their meaning. \u00a0But somehow I couldn\u2019t think of any others right at that moment. \u00a0(Rhododendron<\/em>, maybe? \u00a0Galapagos<\/em>?) \u00a0Gazpacho<\/em> is the one that came to my mind, for whatever reason. \u00a0Do any of you out there have any words that just strike you<\/em> as, well, funny<\/em>?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 This is a stunning story about the converting power of the Book of Mormon and about the motivating power of personal faith: \u00a0\u201cRefugee walks 728 miles to be baptized after reading Book of Mormon:\u00a0Amos Makulu walked across Tanzania to be baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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