You're not going to be here. I remember once being so tired as we made our way out of a remote area of the Sinai desert in Egypt. It was night and we wanted to drive all the way back to Cairo,

but we were just too exhausted from having hiked Mount Sinai at 2 o'clock that morning.

We pulled over to rest. We got off the main road and

pulled up onto a small hill. We watched from our perch as an occasional car would go by.

It was so dark that night, but then it happened.

We watched as a dark mist or fog rolled in like a slow motion wave of the sea. We were both wide awake now. The mist

completely obscured our view of the road below us. We could no longer see

headlights or anything. It was almost an inky black. This was the mist of darkness

Lehi had talked about.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor and this is Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. This week we are studying

one of the pivotal stories in the Book of Mormon, Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life.

Before we go on, we have an interesting and wonderful surprise for you.

If you look at your lesson materials, you'll see in the manual and online, the lesson

starts with a beautiful artist's conception of Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life.

That painting has hung in the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City for more than 30 years. We know the artist Stephen Lloyd Neal very well.

That painting was the grand prize winner of the first international art contest

of the church back in 1987.

Stephen called us this past week and made an unbelievable offer.

That's right, he said, I'd like to give away lithograph prints of that painting for just the cost of shipping and

handling. These beautiful prints measure 39 inches by 19 inches and are available in limited

quantities.

For just $10, Stephen Lloyd Neal's staff will put these in a shipping tube and ship them

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