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Alright Tyson, you now have to take it every time you need for sure.

No, I can do that. I'm happy to do that.

I'm reminded I was talking with Randy briefly before the segment started.

I was listening to Dacey Grayling and he always starts out his lectures debates with

quoting a Hungarian MP when he was in front of a Budapest at the end of a long debate in Budapest.

He stood up and said, well, everything's been said, but not everybody said it yet.

And I sometimes feel that way listening to a lot of and reading a lot of member stories

as they as they exit the church and in many respects, very similar to my own.

I listened to John's and I just cut and paste and delins and cut and paste on my own.

A lot of just very similar experiences went through the whole,

just born and raised in Southern California.

Ancestry walked across the plains.

On one side, converts on the other side, raised in a happy home until they got divorced.

And then bounced between homes and found my social structure within the church.

And that was really my home and really what raised me and why I have such an affinity for the members of the church.

You know, really did not have negative experiences until post-mission.

And I had a lot of confirming what you describe as spiritual experiences.

And I would say that I was a very prototypical believing TBM Mormon

and had a great experience on my mission in Washington, D.C.

And served with great people, experiences.

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