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talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and we're really excited to be here today. We're going to talk about first Nephi 16 through 22 there's so much in here.

That's right. It's almost like we push the pause button in one through seven. Let's let's pause and talk about this wonderful vision of the Tree of Life and now

we're coming back and unpauseing and continuing that story. And so everything that we've

been doing with Tree of Life is wonderful, but we got to go back to that Journey to America

motif and some of the messages that we picked up previously.

So let me jump in by reminding you that one of the great messages of First Nephi is the doctrine that how we respond to our trials shapes our character.

In First Nephi chapter 1 verse 1, looking back on his life, Nephi recognizes that three main things shaped his character.

He says his family, the teachings of his parents, his father, his adversity, and the things of

God.

And I guess, I would guess that each one of us could say the same thing that the things

that have had the most impact on our lives are our family, the trials that we've had and the things

of God. So let's focus on trials.

And so here's what we're going to do.

We're going to take, we're going to make the assumption,

and we made the assumption in our earlier podcast,

that at some point, Nephi and Lehman

are kind of on the same spiritual level.

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