Hello my friends, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name's

Hank Smith. I'm your host. I'm here with my humble seeker of happiness.

Co-host, John by the way and our guest professor lorry

Denning. John let me talk to you first here Alma 23 through 29 what comes to mind

when you think of these chapters?

There's a lot of things. One of my favorite metaphors ever.

The idea of burying our weapons of war is a really cool idea in here.

I also think we have Ammon's amazing mission and then we have

boy not only what happens to the converts here that is difficult but the

missionaries too. This Earth life is a tough neighborhood but we see how they all come through it and end up rejoicing at the end.

There's a lot of highs and lows in discipleship in these chapters.

John, like I said, we have Professor Lori Denning joining us.

We're in Alma 23 through 29 today.

What are we going to do?

Where are you going to take us?

Thanks, Hank.

I think we're going to cover a lot of ground.

There are some great stories in here.

If we break it up into two parts, it'll really help.

What I hope to do is review the stories of joy of these missionaries like John Outlined for us.

The first half we're going to go through all the stories and that's what you alluded to with bearing the weapons

and all the things that happen to the converts.

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