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Welcome to This is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host, Karin Lee.

I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but if you grew up in the US,

you probably remember that moment from your school days when the teacher would finally open

that classroom window for the first time after a long and brutal winter.

Okay, okay, so maybe not in California and Arizona, but in other places where there are actual

seasons, that smell of newly cut grass and budding trees that wafed it into those open windows

always signaled that summer break was around the corner. And I'm pretty sure it also turned us

into a bunch of wild things at least for the entire month of May. Hashtag, bless the teachers.

I also think now that I'm an adult looking back on that, it's a special reminder that what was

once buried under the snow and grime of December can and will come back to life in the spring.

And I think it's really beautiful that we end the school year and celebrate graduation at a time

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