How This All Came to Be ----- An Invitation to Read the Book Posted July 2025 ---- Waking Up Zion
🕊️ How This All Came to Be
An Invitation to Read the Book
Posted July 2025
📚 Hundreds of posts.
Dozens of journals.
Decades of walking.
All leading to one thing:
A book.
I didn’t set out to write a book.
I just wanted to understand.
It started with a little tool I call My Man Godfrey (that’s ChatGPT, if you didn’t know). I used it to help me organize scriptures—pulling together the Book of Mormon, the Nemenhah Records, Joseph Smith’s real teachings (before Brigham took over), and some of the feelings I hadn’t been able to say out loud.
And it worked. It helped me see.
Not just information—but revelation.
Not just quotes—but patterns.
Not just doctrine—but Christ.
Then Joel and Teri told me, “You ought to write a book.”
And I did.
Then my cousin said, “You ought to start a blog.”
And I did.
Then the Lord said, “You’re not done.”
And I kept going.
I didn’t know where it was headed.
I just knew it felt right. It felt honest.
It felt like me.
And it turns out… all of those posts, all of those chapters, all of those early-morning whisperings with God…
They were all leading here:
✨ Waking Up Zion
The True Remnant Speaks
🎙️ I want to be clear about something.
I don’t hate the Church. I’ve been in it my whole life.
My great-grandfather knew Martin Harris personally and stood with him as he bore his final witness of the Book of Mormon.
I love the scriptures.
I love the Lord.
And I love the people.
But something’s been missing. Something’s been asleep.
And I needed to say it—not to tear down, but to wake up.
Just like Nephi said:
❝Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we need no more of the word of God… Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words.❞
— 2 Nephi 29:6
❝They have all gone out of the way; they have become corrupted.❞
— 2 Nephi 28:11
❝Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you the greater things… even the knowledge of how to come unto me… and be saved.❞
— 3 Nephi 26:9; Ether 4:13
🛶 This book is a canoe.
It’s not fancy. It’s not polished. It’s just something I carved out of truth and tears, to carry what I’ve seen and learned.
It’s got journal entries.
It’s got hard questions.
It’s got scriptures the Church forgot.
And it’s got Jesus—everywhere.
Not the Jesus of polished PR.
But the living Jesus who still speaks, still walks, and still chooses nobodies from nowhere towns to say:
"Cry repentance. Prepare the way. Wake up My people."
📝 So if you’re wondering where all this blogging was going—this is where.
This book is not perfect. But it’s mine.
And more than that—it’s real.
I pray it helps someone, somewhere, wake up to the call:
❝Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion…
Shake thyself from the dust…
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.❞
— Isaiah 52:1–2
🤝 One last thing.
Over the years, I’ve noticed something—especially among people in the Church. When something doesn’t feel quite right, most folks won’t say a word. They stay quiet. Some are scared. Some don’t want to stir the water. And many just assume, “If it comes from the Church, it must be from God.”
But that’s not what the Lord meant when He said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.”
Blind trust was never the plan.
Faith means listening for His voice—even when it’s different than what we’re used to.
Joseph Smith taught that “the mind or intelligence which man possesses is coequal with God himself” and that we must each receive our own revelation, walk our own walk, and rise up with our own oil in our lamps.
That’s what I’m trying to do here.
This book helped me sort through things I’ve carried quietly for a long time. Maybe it will help you too. Or maybe it will help someone you love.
If it strikes you—if it speaks to your heart—
feel free to share it.
You never know who’s ready to wake up.
With love,
A fellow traveler
👣⛺🕊️
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