SPRINGVILLE, Utah — “This is the central part of the Book of Mormon — the appearance of the Savior,” Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. said, as the film crew was preparing for a day of working on the Book of Mormon Videos on Monday, July 26. “This is a really important season of filming.”
Elder Curtis, a General Authority Seventy and Church Historian, visited the private and secluded set, located near Springville, Utah, during the production of the fourth season of the Book of Mormon Videos.
The cast and crew began filming two weeks ago and hope to have everything they need by the end of August to begin post production.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team had a year to work on refining the scripts prior to getting the green light to get back on the set.
Elder Curtis was joined by Sister Reyna I. Aburto, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, on the set. Both are members of the Book of Mormon Videos steering committee.
“We are so excited that the First Presidency approved us filming again,” Sister Aburto said.
“We all feel this is the central part of the Book of Mormon because it contains the words that Jesus told those people,” she said. “It contains His teachings and His doctrine. The sole purpose of this project is to testify of Him and to increase faith in Him.”
At the same time, the production team knows it may face an uphill battle to get viewers back in the habit of watching the fourth season of the Book of Mormon Videos, Elder Curtis said.
“We were just so pleased with the start we had with the other videos that we released and the momentum that we had going,” he said. “People got so that they knew we released the videos on Fridays, and so we would have ‘Book of Mormon Videos Friday Nights’ with members of the Church. … To have this long of a time was painful because we had such a good thing going.”
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