Status Updates From Brigham Young: American Moses

So it sounds like the original purpose of polygamy was to restore everything Abraham did in the Old Testament. And by logic, if a man’s wife dies and he remarries and has more kids, and then she dies, etc. he should be sealed to all of them in heaven. So therefore, they should be sealed here too because how is now different from later.

good heavens Brigham was kind of an absent father for a bit while he was in England jeez

“To Joseph Smith he wrote: “Almost without exception it is the poor that receive the gospel.” For these humble, teachable people, Brigham wrote, “simple testimony is enough.” - the purpose of trials often is to put us in a state we couldn’t be in if full of pride; humble and teachable, like a sponge that can absorb the gospel. hardening your heart turns it into a stone, which doesn’t absorb much at all