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Thank you. organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends. Welcome to episode number 119 of the Latter Day Lives podcast. I'm your host,

Sean Ropeeer. Please forgive my voice in the intro and the end as I am battling a cold right now.

So my voice is a little bit gravelly.

I apologize.

But we're so glad you joined us again this week.

A few things before we get into the episode.

First of all, this is our last regular episode of the year.

And I'm so excited that it's a great Christmas episode.

But next Monday, we will have our listener story special. And I've gotten some great stories and

thoughts. Thank you so much to all of you who have submitted. If you have not yet and you want to

share something, please get it to me this week.

The episode will be going live next Monday. So I do need to get it in the next couple of days.

If you'd like to be a part of that, I will be reading our listeners' stories and thoughts on Christmas.

We've had some really just beautiful thoughts. It can be anything.

It can be short. It can be a story. Just your feelings, whatever. We'd love to share it on that

episode. And then we will be on vacation. Just as a reminder, we'll be off for a few weeks. I'm

not sure exactly when we're coming back, but you'll know. You'll see it pop up in

the feed. Be sure to follow us on social media because we'll announce when we're coming back.

But this week we have such a fantastic episode. Jason F. Wright is an incredible author and speaker,

and he's one of these guys who just, we sat down and not even more

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