Welcome to Inklings. I am Emily Bell Freeman, and I'm so excited to welcome you to a space where you and I get to experience a hint of something more together.

This is a community where we lean into discussions that will help us obtain a bedrock understanding of the doctrines of Christ.

Not overnight, but every day better.

Strength gathered over time. There is a place for you here. Looking forward to spending this

semester with you as we embark on a journey focused on becoming his. Good morning, everyone.

Happy Thursday.

Welcome to Inklings.

So excited to be here this morning and we're starting off a brand new study.

As we get started today and as we're thinking about what we're doing and what we're studying,

you might think of people that you wish you were studying with.

And so it is tradition around here that if you want to

gather a group together, you can put in the comments below an invitation to other people

to join us and study with us. And it's going to be such a a good semester so I don't know if you have printed out your

your study guide but the study guides are free at inklings and there's just a PDF link where you can

get everything you need for this study and print it out.

I like to print out mine and then I put them in a three ring binder and I put the talk that we're setting.

And then I put my notes that I took at conference next to the talk so that I've got both together.

So I can be thinking about some of the impressions that came during conference and also be thinking about what we're learning

from the talk. So mine's not fully put together yet, everyone, because that is what kind of week.

It's been crazy.

So this weekend, I'm going to take the time to put the whole binder together and put all my talks in order.

And so that I'm all ready for the semester.

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