Welcome to Inklings. I am Emily Bell Freeman, and I'm so excited to welcome you to a space where you and I get to experience a hint of something more together.

This is a community where we lean into discussions that will help us obtain a bedrock understanding of the doctrines of Christ.

Not overnight, but every day better.

Strength gathered over time. There is a place for you here. Looking forward to spending this

semester with you as we embark on a journey focused on becoming his.

Good morning, everyone.

Happy Thursday.

Welcome to Inklings. I'm so excited to be here with all of you. And let me tell you where we're

going to be. Uh, we're a little late today. So good job everybody knowing that we were late.

I got a little nervous, um, about it because of one of our guests who's coming on today is teaches at

BYU and so I'm going to grab and then I'm also going to grab okay let's see if

either of these if that grab worked oh there's john hi john hey john hey my fault we're late

look how easy that was compared to last time and we have shima here and everybody knows shima

except for john um so shima you get to meet john for the first time right now. So fun and vice versa. And

Shima has been on with us before. So the ladies know Shima, but it will be so fun to kind of have

this conversation together. And thank you, everybody, for waiting until 1130 because John was

teaching this morning. What did you teach this morning, John? So I teach a class called Jesus Christ and

His Everlasting Gospel. It's awesome. It's just a class all about Jesus. Okay, we love talking

all about Jesus. That's what we love to do.

And Shima, just reintroduce yourself. Well, let me say this. John and I are friends from way back. We both are authors at Desert Book and have done a lot of traveling and speaking together. So, and John's been here before too.

You've all met John.

And then Shima is new to us last semester.

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