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Come Follow Me study. I'm Hank Smith. And I'm John by the way. We love to learn. We love to laugh.

We want to learn and laugh with you. As together, we follow him.

Hello my friends and welcome to another episode of Follow Him. We are so excited to be with you.

I'm here with my co-host John by the way. I Hank, great to be back. Yeah, we learn so much.

This is such an incredible opportunity. It's a pleasure to introduce Scott Esplan. He is a professor of

Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Mill University. He's the author of numerous publications

on the Doctrine and Covenants, the history of church education, and Latter-day Saint historic

sites, including an award-winning book on the Restoration of Navu. He also serves as the

publications director for the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. Scott is

married to the former Janice Garrett. They live in Linden or the parents of four children. That's

the most important part, isn't it? Definitely. Thank you John. I just on a personal note. I've known

Scott for goodness over a decade. And he is one of the most genuine, good, kind, and humble people.

I know. Sometimes that humility thing, just I have been working on it and it's, but man,

if I could have an ounce of, if I could have an ounce of the humility Scott Esplan has,

I mean, just incredibly brilliant yet incredibly humble. It's really a friendship by treasure.

You're kind. Hank, thank you. It's good to be with you. I feel like,

I'm grateful for our friendship and look forward to visiting with both of you. Thank you.

Yeah. So let's jump right into the, to come follow me material for this, for this week.

We're going to start in section 12. So as I was, as I was reading and preparing for our interview

today, I noticed that we run into a name that if I'm a first time reader of the doctrine

and covenants, I haven't seen this name before. In the heading, it says it's May of 1829 and Joseph

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