Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday night. It's February 23rd, and I am joined by Bill Real tonight. RFM has the night off. How are you, Bill?

Good, good. How's life treating you, Rebecca? Not too bad. We actually just were together in person just a day ago and spent the weekend at Thrive. And we'll talk about

that in a second here. So I think maybe we have a little bit of a Thrive hangover, right? I mean, I don't mean hangover, hangover. I mean, like just it was so much and so fun. So let's, let's go over to our slides and we'll go through the stories that we are going to cover today. And then we'll talk about a few little items here. So there was actually a lot of news this week. I was

surprised. I was surprised once we put it all together with just the two of us to cover it. But I think it's going to be great. We're going to talk about LDS Apologists, address growth or decline. This is the story I'm most interested in here tonight, and Bill's going to take that one.

Missionary Safety in Mexico is a concern.

I'm going to do, it's kind of a breaking news update on that.

LDS dumping stock, what does it mean?

This was a story from about a week ago, and it's pretty interesting.

Secret Fairview Temple Groundbreaking. That'll be mine, of course, temple busting.

Any forms of T. O.K. Bill's going to delve into that. That's always the question in Mormonism.

LDS Conference Center closure. I will talk about that for a minute. LDS garment history in the news.

Believe it or not, it's not me talking about garments.

That's going to be Bill's story. And Latter-day Saints talk sex, do they? Bill will let us know on that

one. So I first wanted to, and I think Bill does too, just thank everybody that came up and

talked to us at Thrive. Did you have tons of

people, Bill, that just came up and introduced themselves? It was just so fun. It's that way,

anytime we get together for a conference like this, and it's such an appreciative thing to put all

the work in that we do over the course of a year, and then to have people come up who say thank you

for what that does

for them, their ability to sort of process Mormonism and to be able to make sense of things

because of the content that UI, RFM, and others put out.

Yeah, no, it was an amazing experience.

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