The Firm Foundation EXPO or Book of Mormon Conference was held in Salt Lake City on October 20th through the 22nd, 2022. Over the three-day period, there were over six thousand visitors, many of them attending the entire event. It was wonderful to see so many dear friends. In the following, I share with you some of the conference highlights.

There were 124 talks over five sessions, and many them outstanding and on new material. They listed my talks as “Game Changer.” They were received well.

Tim Ballard

Tim Ballard’s address was the high point of the conference. He has done more than any other person on the planet to stop human trafficking, which is the fastest-growing criminal activity and involves many of the elite.

Ballard’s Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) movement is having great success. Tim is undoubtedly guided and protected by the Lord in this monumental effort.

I had a fun visit with a gentleman dressed up as Abe Lincoln. I shared with him and my publisher, Boyd Tuttle, of Digital Legend, some interesting facts in Tim Ballard’s book, “The Lincoln Hypothesis”.  When Lincoln took his second inaugural oath of office, he put his hand on the scripture in Isaiah describing the American Civil War. Tim points out that Lincoln came across this scripture in the Book of Mormon after he had checked it out from the Library of Congress. This scripture is also in the Book of Mormon which was taken from the Brass Plates. I encourage you to read Ballard’s book.

Philip Beale

Philip Beale from the UK spoke of the amazing journey from Tunisia in the Mediterranean to  Florida in the United States by way of a replica of an ancient Phoenician ship. Beale, is a British sailor, adventurer, expedition leader, and entrepreneur. He has undertaken many sea-faring journeys, proving that ships as early as 825 BC have sailed great distances.

The Phoenicians were an ancient Mediterranean civilization that prospered from 1500BC to 300BC. On September 28, 2019, Beal launched the replica of an ancient Phoenician sailing vessel. “The Phoenicia”, a reconstruction of a 6th century B.C. wooden sailing ship. It traveled from Carthage Tunisia to Spain, Morocco, the Canary Islands, and the Dominican Republic before finally arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2020.

Philip Beale has written a book, Atlantic B.C., documenting the Phoenicia adventure. One of the purposes of this amazing voyage was to illustrate that the Phoenicians could have crossed the Atlantic Ocean long before Christopher Columbus. There is no reason “Not To Believe” that Lehi and his family crossed the “great deep” in 592 BC to the promised land in America.

Speaker David Doane, a Jewish convert and a friend of mine, has evidence that the Phoenicians brought Mulek’s family to Zarahemla. The words, Zarahemla and Sidon are Phoenician words. Sidon is the original name of the Mississippi River.

At present, Wayne May has found evidence of a temple near Montrose, Iowa, which is exactly straight across the Mississippi River from the Nauvoo Temple. In D&C 125:3 the Lord told Joseph Smith to name a city “opposite the city of Nauvoo” Zarahemla.

Friday evening of the conference, there was an award ceremony for Philip and a fundraising dinner. The dinner was to raise money to help put the “Phoenicia” in a museum at Montrose, Iowa, commemorating this amazing voyage. The picture above is of Boyd Tuttle on the right with Philip Beale on the left holding the actual flag that flew on the “Phoenicia”–crossing the Atlantic. Boyd gave the award to Philip and a picture of Philip’s book is displayed in front of them.

Available Books

Book publisher, Boyd Tuttle, had a booth where all of Digital Legend’s books could be purchased. I am fortunate enough to have both of my books, “It’s About Time” and “Time and Eternity, the End-Times and Beyond Revealed” published by Digital Legend.

Boyd’s best-seller was the Annotated Edition of The New Testament of Jesus Christ*The Joseph Smith Translation*1867 FIRST EDITION. The editors are David Hocking and Shawn Hugh. Both editors were there to sign purchased editions. They sold a large number of this great contribution.

David Hocking is a dear friend. Because of his great contributions and the importance of the information, I offered to help him with the editing. He included one of my slides on page 144 of this edition, which explains the FIRST-LAST … LAST-FIRST chiasm and its great relevance for our day.

Previously, David and Rod Meldrum did the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon, and for me, it is the best book on the planet to bring people to Christ and to understand where the Book of Mormon took place. Some people say it doesn’t matter, but the Lord says it matters greatly(Ether 2:7-12).

Time and Eternity

I was pleased with the sales for my new book, “Time & Eternity”. Several people preordered it and many had me sign their copy.

One gentleman stood up after my presentation on Friday, holding my book, “It’s About Time”, and said it was the best book he has ever read. Another fellow and his wife talked to me at length saying, he listens to the audio version of “It’s About Time” every night and then he shares the information with his family.

Boyd Tuttle, my publisher, provided a “conference-steal-of-a-deal” price at the conference. The offer included 3 books for $40.00. It comprised of both of my books, “It’s About Time”,  “Time and Eternity,” and  “Think Independently”, by Chauncey Riddle.

It was a wonderful conference. I encourage you to plan on attending the next Firm Foundation Expo conference, which will be held in six months. All the talks were recorded and will be available in December as part of their Streaming service.

Our Need To Repent

The United States of America is the “Promised land” spoken of in the Book of Mormon with the clear message that if we don’t repent we will be destroyed (Cut-off) at His Coming. We cannot say we didn’t know this was the “Promise land” spoken of. We live in a wonderful age where there is so much information available that they will not be able to say, “We did not know.”

The Prophets have spoken and an astounding amount of evidence is available, as is so clearly laid out in conferences such as The Firm Foundation EXPO. There are powerful books available, such as David Hocking’s and Rod Meldrum’s Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon. There is access to many online blogs supporting important subjects, such as one of my articles linked above, “Where the Book of Mormon Took Place”.

David W. Allan

P.S. For those who have lost faith, I still offer a free signed copy of It’s About Time, if they will read it.  The attached blog article has been very popular as well in helping many see God’s fingerprint in His Word. and 

LDS Living has picked up on it as well.

Please feel free to reach out to me: gospelquestions7@gmail.com