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Good morning. I'm excited to be here today, and I want to thank you all for coming.

I also want you to know that I love being at BYU, where we pursue education for eternity

by becoming bilingual in the language of scholarship and spirituality.

I love gathering each week to hear a devotional speaker, and I'm thankful for the opportunity

to speak to you today. I pray for the Spirit to be with us. My message today is for all who

want to know where they must go to strengthen their faith while

pursuing intellectual learning. In the Book of Mormon, Lehigh was called to go to a new

promised land with his family. While traveling in the wilderness, he had a dream. He shared,

I beheld myself that I was in a dark and dreary waste, and after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness,

I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies.

And it came to pass after I had prayed unto the Lord,

I beheld a large and spacious field.

And it came to pass that I beheld a tree

whose fruit was desirable to make one happy.

And it came to pass that I did go forth

and partake of the fruit thereof,

and I beheld that it was sweet above all I ever

before tasted.

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