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.

I just love Thursday mornings, everybody.

I'm so happy to be here.

We're starting a little early today because

I have to leave at nine. So I thought we'll just dive in a little early and everyone else will

catch up to us in 10 minutes when they get on. And let me tell you where we're going to be.

We're actually going to do something a little different today.

We're in Elder Bednar's talk from General Conference.

That's the place we're diving off from.

And we'll talk a little bit about that.

And we're going to also be in Alma 48 is the scripture that we were studying together. And, but I also really want to take you into that talk that was given by J. Ruben Clark. And we're going to spend a little bit of time in that talk today.

So you won't have that, but after we're done with inklings, you'll be able to print it off

and go back and look at it because there are some parts of that that are so good that I just want to be thinking of today.

So as we think about Elder Bednar's talk, and that's where I want to kind of start,

is thinking about that conference talk and what we learned from that conference talk before

...