About Me

My name is Brandon Hull and I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I created this site as a “journal” more than anything else.

I think and learn better “out loud.” By putting my thoughts into writing, I’m better able to clarify and refine them.

I also set this up because it was cheap and easy to do so as a permanent testimony for my children and grandchildren.

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I did not grow up in the Church and I wouldn’t call myself a scriptorian by any means. I’m just a regular guy who wants to learn more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ so I can become more like Him. I have a lot of work to do in this area.

My parents were both raised in huge Catholic families, but they didn’t raise me or my siblings in the Catholic Church.

My mom and dad did occasionally throw my sister and me on a bus that took us to the local Baptist Church when I was between five and nine years old. That was rare, and it was the beginning and end of my religious upbringing, if you can call it that. So I had a basic level of understanding of the core Scripture stories, as long as the key word there is basic. And “understanding” may be pushing it.

I joined the Church in 1993, having been introduced to it by my friend and future wife, Lori. She had just returned from a mission to Paris, France, and I pelted her with questions.

“Here’s what I don’t understand,” I remember saying to her from the driver’s seat of my 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix. “Billions of people believe that God once spoke to people. They wrote everything He told them down. So why does it just…end? Why would he be done? Why wouldn’t he speak to us today?”

Her satisfying answer to that, and other questions I asked, led me to calling up the missionaries, participating in discussions, and ultimately being baptized.

Thirty years later, I still don’t have all the answers. Modern life is hard. People are complex. Societies overall — our standards, priorities, access to information and how we try to make sense of it all — have all evolved over time, including rapidly since AI entered the room.

This journal is my way of documenting the Aha moments I get from studying Come, Follow Me. It helps me learn and stay committed to what matters most.

About this website

The #1 resource for studying Come, Follow Me is the Church itself. Doctrine comes from Jesus Christ through revelation. Church leaders and well-trained researchers carefully, prayerfully, put it all together for us.

There are others who spend their full-time efforts studying and compiling insights for us as Church members. They’re great, too.

These are just my Everyman takeaways. If they help you, great! But always lean more on the original sources of materials and your local leaders’ inspiration.

Technical details

If you’re curious how I built this website, I didn’t, really. No Wordpress, no complicated website to design or setup for hosting. I simply connect and update a Google Sheet that is connected to an inexpensive service called Sheetany. Yes, that’s an affiliate link. But it only took me about 20 minutes to build this, so I can’t endorse them highly enough.

Thanks for stopping by. Let me know if I can help in any way.