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Each item in the exhibit
has a deep story behind it, not only in what it is,
in the matter itself, but in who owned it as well. There's no replacement for
being able to see something in reality. There is something that visitors
to the exhibit will be able to gain from seeing these
original documents that you really wouldn't otherwise be
able to experience by looking at images or other
copies--something profound by knowing that the brother of
the Prophet himself held this particular copy of this book and
read from it only days before the martyrdom. The reason why people should
be starstruck, I guess, when they come and see the first
edition is that it's the first. It's not the most rare,
but it's the edition that's used for the first
seven years of the Church. There's something
special to that, to just--I think people are
attracted to it because it is the first edition. We can't travel back
in time, unfortunately. But we do have artifacts
from the past that have been preserved for us. There's a certain power--power
in the manuscript, the document. Holding one of
these pages brings to light that this
was a real event. I think in our world
we're used to a lot of two-dimensional things,
like on the TV screen or on the printed page
or on the internet. But we hardly ever get to
see something in 3D that is real, that was in the
hands of these early leaders, representing and being history.