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Oh, and please enjoy the conference.

So thank you for coming. This is the first Salt Lake City Mormon Stories annual conference,

and we're excited about it. Before we start, though, a special thing you need to go to,

Jared and Katrina Anderson. We're putting this entire thing together.

We also, though, if we really want to get down to it, we need to thank Facebook.

Another funny thing to think, but it wasn't too long ago that I actually met Jared and Katrina

on Facebook group called MO2.0, and I don't know the very well yet, but it's coming along. We had a

great picnic yesterday, and it was fun to see so many of you there, and I hope that we can have

many more events like this in the future. I wanted to bring Jared and Katrina something nice,

so I brought them something that I love, which is chocolate from Boston. So Katrina, Miriam, come get this.

As most of you know, Mormon Stories met together for our first ever conference in New York City,

not too long ago, and John planned, coordinated, did everything for the entire event all by himself.

Of course, he was also at the time trying to go to school, be a husband and father,

do the podcasts. Yeah, yeah, he's got everything, and by the end of the conference, John was

eating. So we were sitting together at Planet Hollywood in Times Square, and discussing how great it

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