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Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 185 of the Latter Day Lives podcast. I'm your host,

Sean Rope here. Thank you so much for tuning in again this week. Before we get into our amazing conversation, I do want to thank two listeners who left us reviews on Apple Podcast.

First of all, R.S. Turley, who said the show is Sunshine for the Soul.

Oh, thank you so much for your kind words and your five-star review.

We really appreciate it.

As well as username

Bethy Over 10 on Apple Podcast, who just loved our interview with Mark Pope. Bethy Over-10 is a big

basketball fan and was just thrilled to hear Mark Pope's story. And by the way, as you know, I too

am a huge basketball fan and a big Mark

Pope fan. I love that conversation as well. Thank you so much. These five-star reviews really

help us to be found on Apple Podcast, and we very much appreciate it. I also want to send a special

shout out to a couple of amazing sister missionaries.

I actually posted a picture of this on our social media, but we are in Oregon on the Oregon

coast for fall break this week, and we were in Newport walking down the bayfront, and my son said,

hey, are those sister missionaries?

And sure enough, they were. So we called over to Sister Hill and Sister Hayes, two sisters who are

serving in Corvallis, but they were down in Newport for a meeting, a zone meeting. And we got to

spend some time talking with them, and their energy

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