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.

You guys, we are about to have so much fun.

This might be one of your favorite inklings because what happened this morning is I woke up early, which gave me way too much time to be thinking. And just as I was thinking,

I read all the comments, which is what I usually do on Thursday morning. And the comments are

fantastic, everyone. So you might want to get on and read the comments because they're so good.

As I was reading the comments, then I started thinking about a different scripture than I put

on there for us to study because I started thinking about Proverbs 31, which is one of my very

favorite chapters in scripture. And we don't ever really give a great study to

proverbs 31 i'm going to go into that in more detail but what happens in proverbs 31 that i love is it

starts out we all think it starts out with who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies.

But it starts out way before that.

And that's the important thing I want to think about today.

So before we dive in, let me just tell you where we're going to be.

So you don't think I forgot what the lesson was.

We're studying Elder Bednar's talk,

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