Hello my friends welcome to a new episode of Follow Him. My name's Hank Smith. I'm your

host. I'm here with my happy co-host. John by the way, John you can't

disagree with that one. You are a happy co-host. I'll take it.

John, the reason I call you happy is because the title of this week's Come Follow Me lesson is

we lived after the manner of happiness. I've heard you reference second

Nephi for multiple times over the last few years. What are you looking forward to

today? This is a time when Nephi has to move and Lehi dies and he laments that and his I mean Nephi calls himself

Wretched which makes me think ooh can I be Wretched like Nephi there's some great things today

And then of course living after the manner of

happiness like you said. Right John I know this is going to end almost our

narrative portion of Nephi's life this is going to be kind of the end of our story and we're going to get a lot of doctrine and Isaiah chapters after this one's.

I'm excited to see how his life plays out here. John, we are joined by our good friend, Dr. Jan Martin. She is a joy. Jan, what are we looking forward to in this lesson?

I really like to take a covenant perspective of these chapters and that's not one that a lot of people take and it is so much fun so I'm just looking forward to sharing with you a way to see what's going on with Nephi, what's on his mind, and how

covenants is a big thing and how it helps him through all of these difficult transitions

with losing his dad and becoming the person in charge of

everything and then having to move to a new location and set up and how this covenant

is really that stability for him and that helps them live after the manner of happiness.

So I think it's going to be really good.

I love these chapters. Jan is not new to our podcast. She's given us some incredible episodes in the past.

John, but some people might be just joining us, so tell us about Jan.

We're excited to have Dr. Jan J Martin back. She's an associate professor of ancient

scripture at Brigham University and she specialized in the Book of Mormon, the New Testament,

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