Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Mormon Sunday School with Radio Free Mormon.

What I'm going to be doing in this four-year-long podcast is following along with the

Come Follow Me Manual in the curriculum of study for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We'll be starting with the very first lesson

in 2004, the subject and course of study for 2024 is the book of Mormon. And here's the slide that I've

created. It says Mormon Sunday School with Radio Free Mormon, yours truly, where you learn stuff you're never

going to hear in regular Sunday school. And as I said, this is the Come Follow Me Manual on the

Book of Mormon for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lesson number one, covering from

January 1st through 7th of 2024. My idea is to get these lessons, these podcasts, these shows out a week in advance of when

that subject is being studied in Sunday school in the LDS Church to give you a chance

to brush up on your gospel knowledge before you go to church.

And then perhaps it will supplement what you'll be hearing in your regular Sunday school. Now, let me go over here. The very first, by over here,

I mean into my slideshow. Here we go. Let me just check and make sure that's going. Yes, it is a tale of two testimonies.

The first lesson is about the introductory material for the Book of Mormon, and it talks about

the gift of the Holy Ghost or the witness of the Holy Ghost in praying about the Book of Mormon and learning that it is true.

I decided to frame my discussion with you today around this idea of a tale of two testimonies.

And these are my personal testimonies.

The first testimony is about the Book of Mormon.

And the second testimony is about something else which I will introduce

to you as we go along. But there's a picture of Charles Dickens there, since I'm ripping off on

his title, A Tale of Two Cities, for my title, A Tale of Two Testimony. Now, the first thing I noticed

in the Come Follow Me Manual is that it appears that Moronai's promise

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