Hello on Shaken Saints, welcome back. We have some amazing material to cover this week.

Heelomen 7 through 12. We are barreling towards Samuel Lamanite, eventually the

coming of Christ once we get to third Nephi, so amazing things ahead.

I wanted to start today though by, well, reminiscing a bit, going down memory lane.

When I first started teaching for the church 25 years ago,

I remember an old-timer, teacher, faculty member,

colleague that was reflecting on his career

as he was approaching retirement.

And he said to me, you know the great thing about teaching the gospel to the youth is you will always relate to them. Right now, you're their big brother. They look up to you and you'll connect with them in really easy ways, same generation basically.

Give it some time and you'll be their cool uncle. They'll still listen to you.

Give it some time and you'll end up being their dad and that's an interesting

relationship toward your

students as far as age is concerned and by the time you're finishing your

career like I am you're their grandpa again every stage of the

situation you are connecting with your students and it's

interesting now to be in the dad stage. My kids are the ages of my students and

it's interesting to especially the last two years

that I've been at BYU,

the boy you has such a large geographical footprint

and brings in a youth from the church across the world.

And I have taught the children of friends of

mine from high school in the old Valencia days. I have taught the children of

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