Luke S. Johnson

I knew that Luke was asking those who turned from the church during the trying years of the late 1830’s and early 1840’s but I hasn’t realized that he was among the original twelve not that he returned to the church after the death of Joseph Smith. Both of those things are true and after he was rebaptized he served faithfully in less prominent callings of the church such as being a captain of ten and of fifty in journeys to the Salt Lake Valley and as a bishop but never again in the highest counsels of the church. That kind of dedication takes a strong man.