Like most Latter-day Saints, I pay close attention to statements from modern-day apostles and prophets of the Church. There seemed to me to be a strong historical sentiment of Church leaders against total warfare in general, especially the use of nuclear weapons.

Brother Brigham reports a dream during that flight from Nauvoo that gives his true feeling about violence.

Orson F. Whitney wrote in 1888, "Small things are the seeds of great things, and, like the acorn that brings forth the oak, or the snowflake that forms the avalanche, God’s kingdom will grow."

The frontier yokel Joe Smith, if he really done made the whole Book of Mormon thang up, done created a surprisingly sophisticated system of currency pretty much on the fly.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling recently made a false claim about the Book of Mormon plates in a tweet. Perhaps someone should send her a link to the Insights videos.

"The sound of the voice of the Lord is a continuous melody and a thunderous appeal." — Spencer W. Kimball

"My darling daughter Edith, wrote Joseph F. Smith, "You asked me if I had ever received a Revelation since I have been the President of the Church."

“If I were placed on a cannibal island and given a task of civilizing its people,” said Brigham Young, “I should straightway build a theatre.”

As the title of this blog post is intended to suggest, the material below is a sequel to an earlier entry that I published here as “A River Ran Over Her.”

Please note that this trip to Newport Beach and environs was entirely at our initiative. No tithe payers were harmed in the production of this vacation.