{"id":26664,"date":"2015-09-25T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=26664"},"modified":"2015-09-25T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:30:11","slug":"what-on-earth-am-i-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/09\/what-on-earth-am-i-doing.html","title":{"rendered":"What on earth am I doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Kirtland Temple, with flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You may well be wondering to yourself, \u201cHow can that clown be off gallivanting around Church history sites right now? \u00a0Isn\u2019t he teaching? \u00a0Doesn\u2019t he have a job?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Your questions would be understandable.<\/p>\n

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I do indeed have a job. \u00a0And, yes, we\u2019re well into the Fall 2015 term at BYU. \u00a0I\u2019m teaching IHum 242, MESA 250, Arabic 362, and Arabic 490R.<\/p>\n

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So how am I out here in Ohio?<\/p>\n

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Excellent question.<\/p>\n

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I was approached to lead this group back toward the beginning of the year. \u00a0I ran the idea past the appropriate folks at BYU and obtained clearance for it, on condition that I could cover my classes.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the generous kindness\u00a0of Andrew Smith<\/a>, one of the finest students I\u2019ve ever had at BYU, who is now a doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University and who has been a helpful colleague in the Interpreter Foundation, my classes are covered.<\/p>\n

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And others have been generous with their time, too.<\/p>\n

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Lachlan Mackay<\/a> took us around the Joseph Smith historic sites in Nauvoo.<\/p>\n

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Susan Easton Black<\/a> invited us to an evening lecture on Emma Smith that she gave in Nauvoo, took us around several important sites there the next afternoon, and gave a special lecture to our group on the second evening, focused on Joseph Smith\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

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Here in the Kirtland area, Karl Ricks Anderson<\/a> spent today with us at such sites as the Kirtland Temple, the reconstructed Kirtland village, and the Isaac Morley farm. \u00a0We\u2019ve been able to see some things that tourists typically don\u2019t see. \u00a0He\u2019ll be with us tomorrow, as well.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m deeply grateful to all of them.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Mentor, Ohio<\/p>\n

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