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Adam Whitbeck left. Then he came back. Then, in one month, he got his patriarchal blessing, drove 15 young men to camp, was ordained an elder, and went to the Payson Temple.This episode is for the person who already knows the Church is true on paper — and still can’t feel it.We talk about:- Why an *intellectual* testimony can keep you from leaving… and still not make you act- The blessing that named young men — and the phone call two hours later- Washing and anointing: “the scales lifted from my eyes”- Three kinds of testimony: intellectual, experiential, spiritual- John 7:17 — do His will, *then* you’ll know- Chris Blythe’s convert story: cigarette, Book of Mormon, “can I go on a mission?”- What the endowment actually felt like after the internet told him it would be weirdIf you’re going through the motions and waiting for a witness first — this is the episode that says **take the next step anyway.**#ComeBack #LatterDaySaints #WardRadioChapter Markers2:00 – Adam’s back — and he just got endowed 2:30 – Comfort without meaning 3:20 – Intellectual testimony without a spiritual one 4:10 – Going through the motions 4:30 – Patriarchal blessing 5:15 – Two hours later: drive 15 young men to camp 6:40 – “Maybe there’s something to this” 7:00 – Ordained an elder 7:15 – Payson Temple 8:00 – “Thank you for waiting for me” 8:50 – Scales lifted at the washing and anointing 10:00 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph 10:15 – Brad: I remembered you feeling the Spirit 11:15 – Sense vs. want 11:40 – To anyone considering coming back: keep going 12:20 – John 7:17 — do, then know 13:00 – Three testimonies: intellectual, experiential, spiritual 14:10 – Intellectual testimony as a shield 15:00 – Form of godliness, denying the power 16:00 – Experience reinforces the principle 16:40 – Sometimes you act with no whoosh 18:40 – Chris: convert, fall, porch, cigarette, fire 21:20 – Three ways God builds a convert 22:20 – “Where’s the weird part?” 23:10 – Bible already prepared him for the temple 24:00 – Symbols when words aren’t enough 25:20 – What’s still hard to believe? 26:20 – Journal the wrestle 27:20 – Welcome back Become a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

This is a **touchy** conversation. Treat it that way.Latter-day Saints believe we have a Mother in Heaven. That part is real. What is *not* revealed is whether she is the Holy Ghost, whether there is one Mother or many, or how the Godhead is structured beyond what the scriptures already say.We are speculating. We say that out loud.In this episode:- Kwaku’s case: divine wisdom / Sophia / feminine Spirit- The problem: the Holy Ghost is spoken of as “he” in scripture- President Oaks: “Heavenly Mother or Mothers” — we don’t know- Chris Blythe’s two practical rules from current Church culture: 1. Don’t teach that Heavenly Mother *is* the Holy Ghost 2. Don’t publicly pray to Heavenly Mother- A 1843 Franklin D. Richards note that the Holy Ghost is “in a state of probation” — contested, not canon- Elohim as plural, justice and mercy, masculine and feminine- The Monad, graduated intelligences, and why infinite-regress god-chains get ugly- Why stuffing Heavenly Mother into the Godhead to “give her a seat” may be the wrong instinct**Guardrails first.** Unity in the essentials. Liberty in the non-essentials. Reverence the whole way down.This is not a declaration of doctrine. If you clip it like it is, you missed the episode.#HeavenlyMother #HolyGhost #LatterDaySaints #WardRadioChapter Markers0:00 – Cold open: dove, not falcon 1:30 – Green-room question: is the Holy Ghost Heavenly Mother? 2:30 – Kwaku: “If I had to pick…” 4:00 – Sophia, wisdom, and the jump to the Holy Ghost 4:50 – Oaks: Mother or Mothers — we don’t know 5:20 – Scriptures call the Spirit “he” 6:20 – Fast-and-testimony energy 7:40 – Sophia in Proverbs 8 and Gnosticism 8:50 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph screening 9:00 – Chris’s Sophia dream 10:20 – “I won’t make Mother inferior to the Son” 10:40 – 1843 note: Holy Ghost in probation 12:00 – JSP revisions and “gospel fluff” concerns 13:00 – Is the Godhead even a hierarchy? 14:10 – One Heavenly Mother, or many? 15:10 – Elder Renlund / Gospel Topics: stick to what we know 16:10 – Two rules: don’t teach she’s the Holy Ghost; don’t pray to her publicly 17:30 – Elohim is plural — is Mother in “the image of God”? 19:00 – Don’t force her into the Godhead for representation points 19:40 – Ancient religions and feminine wisdom 20:30 – The Monad and “single to the glory of God” 22:00 – Graduated intelligences 24:20 – Spirit person ≠ lesser person 25:10 – Why an endless chain of Gods is terrifying 26:40 – What if a trusted messenger rebelled later?Become a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Before *A New Hope*, George Lucas wrote **five complete scripts**. They are not the movie you know...In the early drafts:- The heroes weren’t Jedi. They were the **Dai Nogas**- The Force was the **Force of Others** — split into **Ashla** (good) and **Bogan** (evil)- A holy man called **the Skywalker** found the Force and trusted it to his **12 children**- Those children became the Jedi Bendu — *servants* of the Force- A padawan named **Darklightner** fell, taught Sith pirates, and the light went extinct- Draft 2 has Luke kill Darth Vader in a **five-minute duel on top of the Death Star**- Draft 3 opens with a fake scripture: *“In the time of greatest despair there shall come a savior… the son of the suns.”*Reid Moon owns all five drafts. We walk through the Christian / messianic scaffolding Lucas later sanded off — plus the original Obi-Wan line that never made the film, how these scripts survive at auction, and the one controversy the pages actually settle:Han shot first.#StarWars #WardRadio #GeorgeLucas### Chapter Markers0:00 – Intro 2:00 – Star Wars as the unofficial Mormon movie 2:40 – Five totally different scripts before filming 3:05 – Draft 1: Dai Nogas, King Kayos, Legions of Lettow 4:10 – How “Dianoga” became the trash-compactor monster 4:45 – Why the prequels wrecked Vader 7:05 – Draft 2: Jedi Bendu of Ashla 8:00 – Black Knights of the Sith 8:45 – The holy man called the Skywalker 9:30 – Ashla and Bogan 10:15 – He entrusted the Force to his 12 children 11:20 – Jedi means servant 12:20 – A Great Apostasy in the first scripts 12:50 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph screening 13:00 – Darklighter falls to the Bogan 13:50 – Luke kills Vader in five minutes on the Death Star 14:15 – Darklighter and Vader merge 15:20 – Draft 3 quotes “scripture”: Journal of the Whills 15:40 – “There shall come a savior… the son of the suns” 16:50 – Tatooine’s two suns 17:30 – Dark Lords of the Sith 18:00 – Drafts 4–5: a galaxy far, far away / Luke Starkiller 18:50 – They went off-script 30% of the time 19:00 – The Obi-Wan vs. Vader line Lucas didn’t want 20:05 – “A spoon perceives the taste of food” 21:00 – Did Obi-Wan give up the ghost? 22:10 – Why the religion got quieter 22:40 – Reading pre-famous George Lucas 25:20 – How Reid got all five drafts 27:10 – Named copies: Roger Christian, Anthony Daniels 29:20 – Disney can’t yank these off the auction block 30:05 – Sharing the scripts with fans 31:30 – Han shot first. It’s in the draft. 32:30 – OutroBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Brittany the Shadow, Sean Layton from Ward Radio Games, and Ethan Fausett, Discord Moderator, join Cardon Ellis and the World Wide Ward Radio fan base discuss Lindsay Clancy, Mormon Girlz, and enjoy some ginger snaps!

Kwaku El and Maddy Packer team up with Cardon Ellis and Brittany the Shadow to teach people how to recognize toxic "cry-bullism" online, and instruct us how to respond to it. It's gonna be fun.