You're not going to be here. How can Lehi, who has suffered so much in the wilderness journey, including the murderous

rejection of his own sons, Lehman and Lemieux, possibly right that

man is that he might have joy. Does he know something that we sometimes forget?

We'll find out as we study together.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me Podcasts.

We're Scott and Maureen Proctor,

and today we'll be studying a lesson on 2nd Nephi chapters 1 and 2 called

free to choose liberty and eternal life through the great mediator.

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Scott, once I was commissioned to write a series of films on the Book of Mormon,

and as I was planning them, the spirit kept nagging me that I was missing something really important.

Then one day, as I was searching these very chapters that we are studying today,

I saw what it was.

I had not focused on the importance of the covenant and therefore had

missed something central to my understanding of the Book of Mormon. Of course, we know from

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