Hey everyone. Welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast that gives you a fresh and faithful study of the scriptures that will renew your excitement for your own personal study and

help you passionately teach what you are learning to others. I'm Zach and I'm with my wife Krista,

and we are excited to be in our 21st episode and diving into the first couple of chapters of

Alma. So yay to be as far as we are, we're almost halfway through the Book of Mormon.

That's making it to Alma, that's a big deal.

It's a big deal.

Here we are, 21 episodes in.

Yeah, that's a big deal for us.

We struggled getting our first four episodes up, so that we've been doing this for a couple of months now.

Anyway, so we are excited to be with you.

Our study tip for this week is to look for alliteration.

That's not really our study tip, but I noticed that in the last couple of episodes,

I'm just because I like alliteration, I like points that start with the same letters.

And I've noticed that in this episode we are talking about prayer.

I'm starting our study with a poem.

And we're going to talk about priestcraft and pride and persuasion and persecution.

And then patience and priesthood.

And I am the type that...

That rolls her eyes when I do dumb alliterations.

No, I appreciate the alliteration.

I just feel very boxed in, having to find P-words for everything.

So the real study tip for today...

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