Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. This is a special

edition of Mormon Stories Podcast where we are going to be talking about what we think

is a really important topic in the life, in the history, in the status of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2022. It is August 4th, 2022, and I am John DeLin.

We are here in studio with two of my favorite humans. We're here with Herardo Sumando.

Hey Herardo, thanks for joining us. Hey John. Thanks for helping us prepare today. Yeah.

And we've got Jed in studio. Hey Jen. Hey everybody. You ready for this? Ready. Okay. So we

have prepared a pretty extensive presentation and we have a lot of slides to get through.

And what I want to say just at the outset is thanks to the feedback from many listeners,

we have a couple really, really crucial samples of multimedia, a video from Elder Jeffrey

Arholland, and then an audio recording from a listener that we're playing at the very

end as we summarize, that we really want to make sure you do your best to either stay

for or come back for. Because while we hope to be as efficient as we can in this, we're

going to end with a really big punch. Something that I think is likely to be experienced

is very troubling and is very important. And we're going to be sharing that at the end.

That's not an intentional hook to keep you for the whole show. It's literally placed

in the point of the show where we think it's going to be crucial. So please stick around

to the very end or make sure and come back to catch the end because it's really important.

Okay. So we are going to be talking as I mentioned about the great Mormon missionary

decline. This is a topic that has started to get a lot of waves recently. And we thought

it would make sense to begin by showing a prediction that Mormon, Prophet Seer and

Revelator and Apostle Jeffrey Arholland made. It was basically an article that he shared

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