Hey there. Welcome to the Scripture Study Project, a fresh and faithful study of the scriptures

that we hope will renew your excitement for your own personal study and help you passionately teach what you're learning to others.

We are your host, Krista, and my husband, Zach here.

And we are studying with you today, our episode 44 in Mormon.

We're starting a new book today. We're going to be

studying chapters one through seven. The Book of Mormon in the Book of Mormon. There you go.

We're excited for this block. We're excited because this is the namesake of the book that we've

spent this entire year studying.

And I know now it's kind of, what would you call it?

I was going to say cliche, but that's not the word.

Kind of taboo.

What's the word?

Kind of so 2015, wait, 2017 to call yourself a Mormon.

Early 2008. Well, interesting that we were, when we originally planned this episode, the title of the episode, the proposed title we were going to call it was, I'm a Mormon.

And it was all going to be about how we should be proud that we're named after this man, Mormon. Now of course, with President Nelson's reemphasis of

the name of the church, which is wonderful and totally appropriate, we're not going to title

this episode, I'm a Mormon. However, it doesn't erase the fact that Mormon was an incredible

person and that we can learn a lot about him and come to love our

membership in the church and our relationship with the Savior by studying his life.

And the fact that obviously he plays a very integral role in the keystone of our religion,

the book of Mormon.

And I think this is going to be really fun. I have

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