This is Doctrine in Covenants 49 through 50.

That which is of God is light.

And I'm excited to talk to you today.

How did last week go?

Did you pray before you went to church to see if there was somebody you could reach out to?

Did you think more about what you were contributing than what you were gaining?

I hope you had a good week.

If you are even able to go back to church, I know I did and I'm going to share something

that happened later in the podcast because it was so great. But I just wanted to start by reading

a couple comments. The first one said, my friend was inspired and shared this podcast with me last September.

The next one said, I was overwhelmed with come follow me until my sister told me about Melanie's

podcast. The next one, I have shared this podcast with so many and I get a thank you every time.

Everyone has something to learn and feel. And I just think sometimes it's really

scary to invite people to do things, especially when the gospel is concerned because we're

like, what if they hate me? Like, what if they throw a rock at my face? Like, what if they don't,

aren't interested? And I think sometimes a podcast is a lot easier than maybe, hey, come to my church

or come to sacrament meeting. So I know that it helps people out when people share it. So if you

have somebody that you've been thinking about, maybe you can share it with them. I don't know.

All right. Let me read the intro from the manual.

It says, the Savior is our good shepherd. He knows that sometimes sheep wander and that the

wilderness has many perils. So he lovingly leads us to the safety of his doctrine, away from

dangers such as false spirits, which have gone forth in the earth deceiving the world there's that word

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