Maureen, I used to look forward to the tail end of our Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts in Missouri

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

and Darryl Onby, part of our family and a world-class ceramic engineer,

and Nord Gale, 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 as I could. Hey, I was only 12 years old. But this was the beginning of my yearning, 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 Maureen 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

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We have often been in that upper room of the Newell K. Whitney store in Curtland, Ohio,

where this great revelation was received, Section 88 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

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

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