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<\/a>Two new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n
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- Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Doctrine and Covenants Study and Teaching Helps (2025) \u2014 Doctrine and Covenants 51\u201357, May 26 \u2013 June 1: \u201cA Faithful, a Just, and a Wise Steward\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Jonn Claybaugh has generously supplied another concise set of notes for students and teachers of the \u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d curriculum.<\/li>\n
- \u201cInterpreter Radio: Come, Follow Me<\/em> in Context: \u00a0May 26 \u2013 June 1: \u201cA Faithful, a Just, and a Wise Steward\u201d (Doctrine & Covenants 51-57) \u00a0For the 4 May 2025 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discussed the Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine & Covenants lesson for May 26 \u2013 June 1 covering D&C 51-57. \u00a0Their conversation has been edited to remove commercial breaks and is now available to you at no charge but at your convenience. \u00a0The other segments of the 4 May 2025 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-may-4\u20132025<\/a>. \u00a0In the Salt Lake Valley, the Interpreter Radio Show can be heard live on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or \u2013 whether in the Salt Lake Valley or anywhere else \u2013you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I would have to say that, for an inn that\u2019s roughly 450 years old, Ledbury\u2019s Talbot Hotel had very good wifi. \u00a0Nevertheless, we headed out this morning for Loxhill Farm, which, until about two years ago, was known as \u201cHill Farm\u201d and which is generally known among Latter-day Saints (but few others) as the \u201cBenbow Farm.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0John and Jane Benbow were prominent members of a religious group called the United Brethren, and they became pivotal early English converts to the cause of the Restoration. \u00a0Wilford Woodruff baptized large numbers of people from the United Brethren in a pond on the Benbows\u2019 farmland that, today, belongs (with a small surrounding plot of ground that is fenced off from a large sheep pasture) to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. \u00a0We visited that modest but eternally important little pond this morning.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A view of the Herefordshire Beacon (a Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph by Whatlep)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n After a short walking tour of the older part of Ledbury that culminated in the Anglican Church of St. Michael and All Angels, we drove some distance up the side of the Herefordshire Beacon<\/a>. \u00a0Most of our group then walked up to its summit for a grand view over all of Herefordshire. \u00a0(The weather today was splendid \u2014 clear and sunny, but not too hot. On 20 May 1840, Elders Wilford Woodruff, Brigham Young, and Willard Richards of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles climbed the hill, joined in prayer, and held what is sometimes termed the \u201cBeacon Conference.\u201d \u00a0Elder Young felt prompted to leave the area and to undertake the task of publishing a British edition of the Book of Mormon and a hymnal for the newly baptized Saints in Great Britain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
We closed our day, before we drove on into Wales, with a visit to the Gadfield Elm Chapel. \u00a0Built by the United Brethren and then given by John Benbow and Thomas Kington, on their behalf, to Wilford Woodruff and the Church, it was the first Latter-day Saint chapel in the British Isles and is, arguably, the oldest Latter-day Saint chapel that still stands. \u00a0(The Kirtland Temple in Ohio is the oldest Church building altogether, but it\u2019s a temple, not a chapel.)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Ledbury\u2019s Baptist chapel was built in 1836, so it was still fairly new when, at the invitation of its pastor, Wilford Woodruff preached in it during the 1840 mission of the Twelve to England. (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n \n\n\n\n\nOur British guide, Peter Fagg, read a remarkable story about Phoebe (or Phebe) and Wilford Woodruff to our group on the motor coach today. \u00a0I\u2019ve read it myself before, but want to share it here. \u00a0It describes what is, in many ways (though not in all), an impressively standard near-death experience, something that occurred before the 1840 mission of the Twelve to England. \u00a0Here is how Elder Woodruff himself tells what happened:<\/p>\n
On the 23rd of November [1838] my wife, Phoebe, was attacked with a severe headache, which terminated in brain fever. She grew more and more distressed daily as we continued our journey. It was a terrible ordeal for a woman to travel in a wagon over rough roads, afflicted as she was. At the same time our child was also very sick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\nThe 1st of December was a trying day to my soul. My wife continued to fail, and in the afternoon, about 4 o\u2019clock, she appeared to be struck with death. I stopped my team, and it seemed as though she would breathe her last lying in the wagon. Two of the sisters sat beside her, to see if they could do anything for her in her last moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\nI stood upon the ground, in deep affliction, and meditated. I cried unto the Lord, and prayed that she might live and not be taken from me. I claimed the promises the Lord had made unto me through the prophets and patriarchs, and soon her spirit revived, and I drove a short distance to a tavern, and got her into a room and worked over her and her babe all night, and prayed to the Lord to preserve her life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\nIn the morning the circumstances were such that I was under the necessity of removing my wife from the inn, as there was so much noise and confusion at the place that she could not endure it. I carried her out to her bed in the wagon and drove two miles, when I alighted at a house and carried my wife and her bed into it, with a determination to tarry there until she either recovered her health or passed away. This was on Sunday morning, December 2nd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
- \u201cInterpreter Radio: Come, Follow Me<\/em> in Context: \u00a0May 26 \u2013 June 1: \u201cA Faithful, a Just, and a Wise Steward\u201d (Doctrine & Covenants 51-57) \u00a0For the 4 May 2025 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discussed the Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine & Covenants lesson for May 26 \u2013 June 1 covering D&C 51-57. \u00a0Their conversation has been edited to remove commercial breaks and is now available to you at no charge but at your convenience. \u00a0The other segments of the 4 May 2025 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-may-4\u20132025<\/a>. \u00a0In the Salt Lake Valley, the Interpreter Radio Show can be heard live on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or \u2013 whether in the Salt Lake Valley or anywhere else \u2013you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n