Welcome to Follow Him, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping individuals and families with their

Come Follow Me study. I'm Hank Smith and I'm John by the way. We love to learn, we love to laugh.

We want to learn and laugh with you. As together, we follow him.

Welcome my friends to Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I am your host. I am here with my double

portion co-host John by the way. John by the way, when I think of you, I think of the term double

portion. I have no idea why other than I've just read Second Kings, but I'm twice as insignificant as

you think I am. No, but you're doubly important. You're doubly significant. John, we love you.

Everyone in this audience loves John by the way. Okay, skip to the next part.

Let's get to the end. John, like I just said, we're going to be in the book of Second Kings,

and we have a returning star. Tell everyone who is joining us today. Yes, I'm so glad we have Dr.

Crystal V. L. Pierce back again. She helped us as we were talking about Noah. And just to refresh

everyone's memory, she was born in Logan, Utah, raised in Taylor'sville, also lived in, I love

saying this California Idaho cross the ocean, Egypt and Israel. She received a PhD in Egyptian

archaeology and near Eastern languages and cultures from UCLA and an MA and BA in near Eastern

studies from UC Berkeley. She's taught classes on Egyptology and ancient near Eastern studies

at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA and UC Berkeley. Crystal and her husband

Professor George Pierce, whom we have also had on the program, have two children and live in Vineyard.

And so I'm really happy to have you back and excited that we have you for such great stories

in the Old Testament. I'm happy to be back. Have me to talk about Elisha. We love Crystal Pierce

on this program. And just so everyone knows who's listening, Crystal Pierce is this sweet and

genuine and brilliant in person as she is on this show. She really is. She's a star in the religion

department. Not only is she amazing, but she also forms everybody. Hank, one of the things that I

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