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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay.

Today we are talking about a really exciting topic, the Council of 50, which we've sort of kicked around.

We've alluded to in this whole series. And now we're going to sort of dig into what the Council

of 50 is, what it means, and how it impacts the topics that we discuss on this podcast. So I'm

bringing back a return guest, Christina Rosetti. Can you say hello?

Hello.

Christina, you've become a popular guest people request to have you back. I think they like having a Catholic talking about Mormonism.

I know. So weird. Why are you laying Gentiles on your show? I think we're still trying to get in the baptismal waters.

I mean, that's fair. Do you want to tell us about yourself for those who have never heard about you before?

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at University of California,

Riverside, and I study Mormonism and their lines of authority and how different Mormon groups interact and all that good stuff.

So what I'm thinking is if you guys really want Christina to not be a Gentile anymore, write your testimony in the cover of a book of Mormon and just send it over to her.

In fact, when you see her at Sunstone, just give

her a book of Mormon with a testimony. And I think that would really be helpful.

100% will get me in the water way faster. Also on, we're bringing on a first time guest, Jedediah

Rogers. Jedediah, can you say hello? Hello. Hey, thanks for having me. I think we only brought you on because you've got a cool name like Jedediah.

It just sounds right for this podcast.

I do.

And most of, if your listeners do not know who Jedediah Smith is, they should.

He was a very cool Western sort of explorer.

So I was named after when my mom was reading the biography of Jedediah Smith

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