Hello to all my wonderful friends out there. It is so nice to see you, or in this case not so you, but at least envision you.

Over the last few months, I've had amazing opportunities just to meet so many.

You who came to BYU Education Week, I got to meet so many. You who came to BYU Education Week, I got to meet so many of you, you who came to

the restore gathering that Faith Matters put on, just even people in the grocery store or swinging by campus at BYU,

you're amazing people.

And honestly, it is such a privilege to join you for scripture study.

This is sacred time for me and for you

and just to be able to connect with amazing people over

amazing things is a true joy. Also so many of you have been kind to reach out with

condolences about my father's passing and that's meant a lot to me as well. I've joked with a lot of you

that by now he's probably long done with his Spirit World MTC training and has hit

the ground running and is out teaching the gospel as he always did.

Continuing to serve with unwearyingness as so many of us are trying to do here on our side of the

Vale.

Just grateful for you.

It really does feel like one big family of Saints on any

spectrum of unshakenness, those that are unshaken, those that want to be unshaken.

We're all probably both of those at times. Anyway, I'm grateful for you and I hope that you feel that. I hope that you recognize that you are one of the ones that I'm hoping to reach with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now today we are

finishing third Nephi, we are flying through fourth Nephi as well, so that after

today by next week we will see the end of the Nephite civilization.

And then kind of a lot of cleanup that Mormon and Moroni will give us the Book of Ether and

then some more finishing touches from Moroni.

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