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The first time I heard of “Mormons” was when my family took our boat out to beaver island and we walked around their old settlement. It was a sad, lonely place. 30 some years later I am a very happy member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thank you for your videos!

I am LDS and I really enjoyed this video. You are showing me things about our chruch history that I never even knew about. I am also learning more about our history.

I am a 77 year old LDS member currently serving a third mission with my wife this time at the Church’s Historic Kirtland Ohio Site. I am very much enjoying your 52 in 52. Success and peace in your travels. I agree with you as it says in Colossians, “to represent Jesus well”. That we can all do. Shalom!

I’ve heard so little about The Strangite offshoot that I’d forgotten about them. This is my fourth Church visit I’ve watched. I really appreciate the work you do and how you don’t bash any Church. Thank you.

I served as a LDS missionary in Wisconsin. Burlington was in the last area I served in. I had no idea about the strangites until I was walking down the street and ran into their chapel, and historic park area. Fun to see this video! I have loved your videos and spiritual journey. May our Heavenly Father and his blessed son, Jesus Christ, continue to bless you!

Another Latter Day Saint here. Its been so great to follow you and your sincere and unflappable faith in Christ and his spirit.

I've read the letter and studied the history of James Strang, thoroughly. James Strang joined the LDS church about 3-months before Joseph Smith's death and persuaded Joseph to allow Strang to start a branch (small congregation) in Wisconsin with the saints there. Joseph wrote a letter confirming James Strang will lead the church in that part of Wisconsin as its branch president, but never appointed Strang as an Apostle, or any other leader of the church. Joseph had already confirmed ALL of the rights and authority of the church on the 12 Apostles, which all 12 Apostles at the time confirmed happened, teaching them that when he dies, they will lead the church as they did in Jesus' day, with the senior Apostle as their president. Strang claimed to have seen an angel when nobody believed he should lead the church, which changed to angels, but none of his followers ever saw one or experienced any miracles of any kind, and Strang was ultimately seen as a fraud by his own followers. I met a Strangite about 18-years ago, who told me there were only a couple of dozen members left in their church, so interesting to see there's still a few. We're all trying to follow Jesus Christ the best we can, we just need to rely on the Holy Spirit for guidance and love. Great videos!

Strang was initially against polygamy and that that drew a number of members to follow him. When he reversed himself on that a lot of people left and it went downhill from there. I personally know someone who is a direct descendant of James Strang. Her father joined the main LDS church as a teenager. She is probably the very first descendant of James Strang to be married in the temple.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints. I very much enjoy your videos. Very informative and helpful . I feel like you are a brother in Christ.

I so love you sharing your cardinal experiences. For me, it’s been the hawk. There’s something about seeing a hawk that has always stirred my soul. But in the last 15 years, God has been using that to bring me comfort in moments when I needed to know that I was being seen and heard and loved. I would be driving or just sitting on my front porch or wherever, struggling with what ever trial, I was currently dealing with, and I would see a hawk soaring high above me in the sky- usually, circling above my area. Each time, I would know that my Savior was aware of me, and wanted to reassure me that I was not alone in that moment. God knows us so well individually, He knows what we will identify with, and loves us enough to use those things to remind us that He is there-always. Thank you for this amazing journey that you are sharing. I’ve been learning so much since discovering these videos recently. And I particularly love your genuine approach that is not biased or agenda-driven. So many documentaries or docuseries are dripping with personal prejudice. Yours are just so refreshing. Thank you for your honesty and for sharing your heart. God bless! ❤🙏🏻

The fruits. THANK YOU for seeing the fruits! People often look at the roots too much and forget to see the fruits of the roots. Which is what we need to do. Especially in our days. “Ye may know them by their works” or in other words, their fruits.

Fascinating. I'm LDS and didn't even know a Strangite church existed. Loved your explanation. Off to Saints Unscripted to learn more about James Strange.

I'm a Latter-day Saint living in Tucson. I know 1 Strangite living in Missouri who is a wonderful person. Strangites are our religious cousins. Thanks so much for doing these videos! I love watching Snell on Saints Unscripted. I bet they'd love to have you come on their show!

I love how kind and welcoming ALL these churches are to you! Especially a small church like this one, it must be so wonderful for them to have a visitor who comes with good intentions, just wanting to understand what they believe. I can’t stop watching your videos! I am learning so much about all these churches and I appreciate the way you are approaching each visit with an open heart. It is truly Christlike!

Thank you so much for going to this church and many others and being so respectful to all of them, to share with us your journey! I always wondered who the Strangites were. I am LDS and I have read all seven volumes of church history, it is the 1978 Edition. It mentioned about them and I always wondered what happened to the Strangites. Keep up the great adventure! I'm enjoying the trip with you! I'm learning a lot! I love to learn about other religions. Also I looked up in Google what a Cardinals meaning is. "Deeply Spirtual, a symbol of hope and Peace."

Interesting how you feel there is symbolism in these visits. Hope God gives you the clarity your heart is seeking to find 🙏🏼

Jesus said if you love me, feed my sheep. Often i go to church to be fed but neglect my responsibility to feed others. I love Jesus and I appreciate your wristband that reminds you to represent Him well. I am striving to be a better representative of Him too. Thank you so much for your willingness to learn about the restoration and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I hope you can get to a temple open house soon!

I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, Interesting visit. I was familiar with Strangites splinter but only a little bit. I have enjoyed your videos. Wish you luck with whatever your are searching for and appreciate your diligence in searching.

You clearly attracted an LDS audience to your channel hahaha! I am one, and this is fascinating info about the Strangites… I either knew nothing about them ever or I forgot at some point. Thanks for the great content!

Loved the video. I stopped by this church several years ago, and very much enjoyed the people I met. Fellow Wisconsinite here, former LDS, current Community of Christ member. Community of Christ Milwaukee congregation would love to meet you, feel free to stop by any time.

I really enjoyed this one. As a lifelong LDS (mainstream) I knew there were breakaway congregations, I didn’t know there were many more than the Community of Christ. Keep up the great work.

I'm a big fan of your channel and a Latter-day Saint who grew up in the Hillsong Church from Australia. Thank you for taking us on your life journeys. Maybe you're an all denomination person with your spirituality. Keep the faith!

Interesting that Gospel Tangents has just recently been putting out more interviews about the Strangites! Edit: I am just blown away by your unbiased approach. Love your videos!

Not only do you appear to be representing Christ well, but you are encouraging others to do so. David, seriously, honestly, really (It is hard to convey emotion in type) I am now a better human being and a better Christian and a better adherent to the church I attend because I have gotten to know you, so when I say thank you in each video, I mean THANK YOU because you have blessed me. BOB A loves "I don't want to convert. I don't want to be converted. I want to learn." Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you David. Usually I wait til the end of the video to comment, but I had to stop the tape and get those in there. Wow awesome story. Thank you for the history and background. Several years ago, for about a two month period, I felt strongly impressed to poke me head around the restoration community. I did some light research of many many groups and then checked out several blogs and chats. I found sadness. It made me sad. So much commentary on how these various groups where continuing to split or dwindle like the shakers, and they disagreed with each other on this and that, but they all (these commenters I read in this two month period) agreed on one thing - they absolutely did not like the mainstream church or Brigham Young at all and would say some things that were nastier than what you might hear from a typical Southern Evangelical about "Mormons". I was sad that such a perceived driving force behind some of these frustrated folks was a grudge or some negative relationship toward another organization. There needed to be some kind of healing.; I must assume there still needs to be. As far as the Restoration, for me it is pretty logically equational that if the true church is restored then it must fit precisely Daniel's description of the rock cut without hands that doesn't diminish or stagnate but continues to fill the whole Earth. John finishes that story, until the Groom shows up. Anyway, my two cents. Thank you, David. Love yeh, man.

The one offshoot church that holds to the true Sabbath. The one thing I can appreciate about this faction.

Your repeated experience with cardinals reminds me of when our longtime family dog passed away a few years ago. Soon afterward, we had a sudden obvious increase (that we hadn't experienced before or since) of ladybugs in and around our house. Maybe there was no connection between the two events, but we found it comforting. I believe that The Lord allows experiences like this to happen as a "tender mercy" or a kind of "heavenly hug" to gently let us know that we're on the right track and that He loves us. Thank you for your videos. God bless.

Thanks for doing this! I am enjoying your search!! It is nice to know that there is someone out there that believes in God and wants to find out more from other religions!! I vote Saints Unscripted!

For anyone interested in learning more I'm a baptized member of the LDS Strangites Church currently based in Chicago. I've met and lived with the high priests in Burlington WI and have a detailed review of how it is run.

I didn't even know there was still a Strangite church. My great grandparents joined up with them because they did not support war and did not want to have their sons go to war. I thought that they were all the last existing ones. I didn't ever get to know my great grandparents because they died before I was born. My father loved his grandmother a lot, but his own parents, my grandparents, never joined the Strangite church. We are still all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS.

The strangites hold an interesting place in LDS history, and even many LDS mainline members hold a special place in our hearts for our strangite brothers and sisters. They're very earnest in their belief, and I have to say I deeply respect that. Even if I don't agree with them, that alone is deeply admirable.

The Cardinal was for Saints Unscripted. For sure 💯😂 I’ve been a member of the actual LDS church all my life but never once heard about Strang or the Strangite church. I appreciate you going there. I thought it was fascinating and I really leaned a lot from this video!

Id never get an opportunity to visit there. Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you are having good experiences. And WOW. Another cardinal- there’s definitely a reason.

Fun fact: The strangites have the trade mark for latter day without the hyphen so the corporate mainline lds had to add the hyphen to the business name

Loving this journey.

Cool! Thanks for visiting all the Latter-day Saint based churches (that I'm aware of).. it's great to know more about them. As always, I also really enjoy your videos. It's refreshing to hear positive, helpful, and thought-provoking opinions on the various faiths and their services :)

LDS here! Love seeing your journey, especially when you go to an LDS church! 😊 and learning off shoot, once i never heard of.

Wow! You are very patient and open minded to other religions. What a great quality you have. Good work! Thanks for being born!

I appreciate you covering the LDS churches all springing forth from Joseph Smith. Thank you for your commentary, approach, and respect you share. Speaking the Truth In Love.

I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints as well and felt through your words, David, that these were good people. They seemed to be very welcoming and pleasant to talk to from what you have said.

You are doing a wonderful work. Keep it up, and blessings go with you

As a mainstream LDS I really am really enjoying your videos.

Thanks for another great video! I love seeing your cool experiences. As for the cardinals, that's awesome! But I hope you don't only base your spiritual path on that. Instead of asking for a sign, I think the best thing is to really listen to your heart and to the Holy Ghost. I'm a Latter-day Saint, and I hope you allow yourself to have a James 1:5 experience and really ask God for direction (even though that might not be something you want to share on KZfaq). Thanks also for your testimony of Christ and helping everyone come closer to Him! And yeah, Saints Unscripted is pretty cool. Dallas Jenkins from the Chosen was on it once, too. Have a great Easter!

I've been hoping for this video for months! I'm hoping to visit this congregation someday, but sadly I live too far away for now. I'd like to meet Bill Shepard eventually

My dad had heard of the strangites,I had not before now! Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I have been aware of Strangites by name but never knew much about the movement. Thanks for sharing and I'm really curious about your cardinal appearances. Oh, I bet Saints Unscripted would bring you on.

I've been LDS my entire life (40+ years-Utah) and I've never heard of this group. Made me wonder though... how many off-shoot religions there are that branched off from the original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints started by Joseph Smith after his death.

I've been researching the Strangites for years, I visited the old meeting house & I plan to visit the hill of Promise (the location of the temple & the Voree plates) & the white river. I want to go to the actual church so that I can read their records & books.

Im here for maybe my third watch. Back again because of John Hajiceck video with mbr and the Kirtland temple sale.

I like how you have a small Book of Mormon collection going😂

WOW! In Wisconsin!

Wonderful video!

Uhm, your spiritual defence system has cut in. I've never seen one of your videos when your passion for the Lord has grown that you can contain your emotions. At the same time you always show the gift of discernment towards teachings that are far from the face of God. I'd say that your armour is well suited to your search for truth. Thanks for inviting me along.

As a non-Mormon UU atheist I've heard a lot about the biggest LDS denomination from both current and former members but I didn't know much about the other branches besides skimming the Wikipedia pages about them (I've heard the Community of Christ is the most liberal one and that it's basically the UUs had they not abandoned Christianity, for that I've wanted to visit the closest church that is located at the town a couple of hours away from me). I've read most of the Book of Mormon (alongside other sacred texts like the Qu'ran) and although it didn't make me a believer I found parts of it fascinating, I appreciate that you made content regarding the other branches that may be hard to find elsewhere.

James Strang is really fascinating. Does anyone know where to find his revelations and/or translations online?

By their fruits you shall know them.

Hmm, should you join the Catholic seminary or be a guest on Saints Unscripted? My vote is for Saints Unscripted!

Literally never heard of this though I’ve been “mainstream” Church of Jesus Christ my whole life

Very interesting!! I am not LDS but it interesting that the church still exists. Visit the Catholic seminary definitely!!

This is the first time I hear that not all churches follow the 10 commandments.

Why do you mention the cardinals? Only reason I ask is because I visited a Mormon temple yesterday (just driving around it didn’t go inside) and also had a cardinal land on my backyard fence right when I left to go there. Once I got there I had very strong deja Vu. I don’t believe I agree with many of their teachings. But there is a strange pull to it.

Sir, I would love to see you attend the FLDS since I have a lot of rumors about this church and I heard it is a closed community.

"Latter-day Saints" meaning "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" follows the Book of Mormon, the Bible and all other authorized latter-day revealed scripture! The are several splinter groups who "claim" to do that, but also choose to ignore things they aren't comfortable with. The Kingdome of God on Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven welcome all who will choose to be obedient, as directed by the Holy Spirit, and forsake rebellion!!

Thank you for your video and description of the church. Quick question - Did you say the church is down to 4 members?

How do you fund your projects to do all these videos?

I've been binging this series for the last couple days and it's I'm laughing at the rapid learning LDS history and doctrine. At the start I'm sitting here wincing at names and stuff and now you're rattling off church history stuff like it's no big deal.

Good night Stay in here

When this man was a deciple of the Church that believed in Joseph Smith as a true Prophet did he believe at that point in the 12 Apostles that had been called such as Brigham Young? If so why didn't he follow those 12 Apostles. Or at least call 12 new Apostles was done in the primitive church during Christ's ministry?

You could come to Brazil to meet the 3rd Mormon alleged prophet to be ordained by angels. The Brazilian prophet Mauricio Artur Berger. The angel Moroni brought him the "sealed plates" of the book of Mormon. He translated them into Portuguese and English. He now heads a Church of Christ in Palhoca Santa Catarina Brazil

Who rounded the strangites up after Strang died? was it local law enforcement?

As for the cardinal. Its red. Have you "read" the stick of Joseph? Mentioned in Ezk 37? The 2 "sticks". Bible is the stick of Judah BOM is the stick of Joseph Wings, angels.... In Rev 14: 6 And I saw Another angel fly, having the everlasting gospel..... If the fullness of the everlasting gospel was already on the earth.... Why then in the last days would an angel( moroni) Need to be sent? To be "preached ". By whom? The saints. Ans: because the fullness, wasn't here....yet It lay in thr ground. Untraslated...till 1830.

"this is where it gets really sad", he just got shot in the back and it gets worse!

Saints Unscripted! How many signs do you need??

Cardinal Directions

just following a guy - cultish? no offence meant here just curious. Loving this journey

I have heard the names all kind of Mormon churches! That’s why the LDS have a lots cover up. Do they don’t know about the histrionics!

You need to colab with Jeff from HelloSaints

Where is this church? Who is this Bill? 🤔 I wonder why my ancestors went with Brigham Young? Had they not gone would they have had to practice polygamy & racism?

The whole story about Smith is so ridiculous IDK how anybody could believe it.

Two prophets with gold plates. Something fishy is going on! I know it’s a scam!

Maybe the cardinal is an incarnation of Fanny Alger, Joseph Smith's first affair and his second wife whom he married behind the back of Emma.