The Book of Mormon, Digging Deeper

#120 Come Follow Me: Choosing the Twelve Apostles

Mark Swint Season 5 Episode 8

While Joseph Smith was busy working on the Book of Mormon and getting ready for its publication as well as the formal organization of the Church, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, on the occasion of the revelation known as the 18th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants, received their own commissions from the Lord. Their task was to search out and choose the twelve men who would become the first ordained Apostles of the new Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. it was not as easy or as successful as one might think. listen in and find out how it all went.