I've spent the last month getting to know and serve with the newly called seminary teachers in my local stakes.

As I talk with these amazing people, it's obvious that they feel the weight of undertaking one of the most demanding and rewarding callings in the church.

I was thinking about them when I read one of my favorite verses of Scripture this week, Nehemiah 6 verse 3, which says, in part,

I am doing a great work. In this episode, we consider our own great work, whether that's a new

calling, building, or rebuilding a crucial relationship, tackling a particularly difficult

self-improvement project, or ministering to someone in real need,

and we'll identify a few places in our study this week that can hold important instructions for each of us.

Welcome to the Scripture Study Project. We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study Scripture with you.

Our goal each week is to help you discover new or renewed excitement for God and His Word.

Invest your heart and personal life into your study and connect with others as you teach and learn together.

Hello everyone. Welcome to our study this week of

Ezra and Nehemiah. It's just me. And I wanted to start by relating an experience that

Chris and I had this last week. We had a really great opportunity to be with some of our colleagues

and friends touring some of the church history sites in the

northeastern states of the of the U.S. We were from Vermont all the way to Kirtland and it was a week-long

trip and it was pretty high octane. We were up at 7 o'clock in the morning to start going to

whatever the first site was on the agenda and we went until 8 o'clock or so at night and went to all of the sites that are well known and quite a few of the ones that are less well

known and uh i joke that if there was anything any kind of connection to church history we either

drove by it or stood at it or looked at it. But it was a great

opportunity. We both Chris and I had been to various places, but had never done this kind of a

prolonged, connected experience. And so it's hard to say what was our, what our favorite place was, but one of them at least

had to have been Curtland. We loved the feeling in Curtland that came from being in the place

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