You're not going to be here. Scott, I love the language of Nephi, as he adds so much of Isaiah into his small plates.

He says that he delights in the covenants of the Lord.

That's certainly a theme throughout the Book of Worman.

He delights in the Lord's grace, justice, power, and mercy.

This is all code language for rejoicing in the atonement of Jesus Christ.

And Nephi delights in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death.

These expressions of joy are in relation to the words and writings of Isaiah.

That should get us excited about the materials we are studying this week.

Welcome to Meridian magazines Come Follow Me Podcast.

We are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and we are so happy to be with you again today.

In fact we could borrow Nephi's language and say we delight in being with you.

Truly isn't this so much fun to study the scriptures together?

Doing this podcast and now publishing Meridian magazine for over 25 years

is not free for us. We do need funds to keep all this going and that's why we have our voluntary

subscription campaign each year. If you could take a minute and go to Latter-day Saint.com, forward slash subscribe.

That's Latter Day St. Mag.

dot com forward slash subscribe.

And there you can help us in our subscription campaign.

If you would rather, you can send a check directly

to Meridian magazine, P.O. Box 203,

American Fork, Utah 8 403. Thank you so much for your support.

Now this week in chapters 20 through 25 of second Nephi, we see multiple references not only to the world Nephi

...