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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

My name is John DeLin. I'm your host.

And today we have yet another very exciting episode for you all.

Before I explain who our guests are,

I'm going to give you a little background.

And the background is this.

In February 2011, it seems like years ago,

but it wasn't even a full year ago.

Mormon Stories had its first sort of regional conference in Washington, DC,

where a bunch of Mormon Stories listeners got together, probably 50 or 60 of us,

and we had a conference Greg Prince came.

And we watched the Book of Mormon musical.

And after that conference was over, I was pretty worn out,

and we were having a bit of a debrief with those who helped plan it.

And one of the participants in the conference, her name is Anne McMullen Pepper.

She and I were talking, and she got this idea, this crazy idea,

to create like a million Facebook groups,

...