Hi everybody. Welcome to the Don't Miss this podcast, a come follow me study with Emily Bell Freeman and David Butler.

We fill this show up with all the things we think you don't want to miss in the scriptures every week.

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I'm Grace Freeman.

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If it's your first time here, that has taken 18 practices to get that intro right where it's at so hope you can

appreciate it um this is our this is our little class our scripture study class we follow the

come follow me schedule and we move uh through each week's reading and we point out things that we think

you don't want to miss we're in the book of Mormon this year, and we're at the end of summertime, if you're in the top half of the earth. True. And end of winter, if you're in the other. So everyone's happy. Except if you're going back to school. Unless you're her mom. But this time and next time are, if you're

new to the Book of Mormon, are known among Book of Mormon reading people as the war chapters.

So there is war all throughout the book, but for some reason there is just this big emphasis

and a lot of detail on this great battle several battles

which encompass a war between the nephites and the laymanite armies and just like a lot just a whole

lot of description about very very specific battle plans and outcomes and like strategies and there's just so much

in here about, um, about the wars.

And we called today a happier time because this comes from one of the sections, it's a

scripture and one of the sections that we're in.

And, um, I really like it because there's two things just at the beginning that I think we want to

say. And one is, this is not a new thought, but there have been, when we talk about Mormon

putting together what he's going to put in the Book of Mormon, Mormon compiles all these

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