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Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast. My name is

Sean Rappier. I am your host, and this is episode 20. So excited, we've made it to 20 episodes.

This week, what a great show. My guest in the

conversation is Garth Smith, and Garth is an incredible composer. He does just the most

beautiful arrangements of hymns and of music. He does Christmas music. It's incredible. Such a

talented musician, Garth Smith. And I had never met Garth

before. I was going to be out in San Diego on business, and I knew he lived in that area. So I reached

out to him. He was kind enough to let me come into his home. And I walked away feeling like

Garth Smith is a friend of mine now. But I get the feeling everyone

who meets him feels that way. He's just that kind of a guy. He exudes the spirit and is such a

good guy. I met him and his wife who's just, she is just wonderful. And I think you're really

going to love this conversation.

A very talented man and now a friend in Garth Smith.

This week in my latter day life, I'm going to tell you about my favorite Christmas ornament.

There's one ornament that's very, very special to me, and I'll tell you the story behind it.

But before we jump into all of that, I've got to give a shout out to one of our listeners, Tyson Aberroa. And Tyson, I'm sorry if I'm getting your last name wrong, but Tyson

sent me a really nice email this week, as well as he sent me a free download copy of a book

that he has written. This book is called The Fattest Mormon, the Winnebago Chronicles,

Volume 1. And I'm a big, big reader, and I started reading it this week. I've got to tell you,

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