I used to look forward to the tail end of our Thanksgiving and Christmas feast in Missouri

because my dad, a brilliant and world-renowned geologist and geological engineer, and Daryl

Homebee, part of our family, and a world-class ceramic engineer, and Nordgale, a celebrated

favorite professor and brilliant microbiologist, and Harold Romero, also a brilliant physicist,

would stay at the table and discuss deep gospel questions.

Many times the conversations would go way over my head, as they talked about creation,

celestial worlds, spirit elements, atomic elements, and the qualities of light.

But I tried to follow along as best I could, hey, I was only 12 years old, but this was

the beginning of my yearning, my thirst, and hunger for knowledge.

I could not get enough of it.

These discussions around the table were amazing, and then I was introduced to section 88 of

the Doctrine and Covenants.

I was blown away.

This deep water is the subject of our podcast today.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

We are Scott and Marring Proctor, and we are delighted to be with you again this week,

and begin a discussion around your table of section 88 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

This section is so long and so deep, it even took the Prophet Joseph three different

sessions on three different days to have it recorded.

We were just in that upper room of the Nulke Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio, about three

weeks ago, where this great revelation was recorded.

I think it's fascinating, Scott, that on Christmas Day in 1832, Joseph received the

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