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.

We are going to be today in Elder Strong's talk. charity, a true sign of discipleship, and then also in the

New Testament.

So if you have your New Testament and you get me alone today because it's Women's Conference,

and so I was so worried to take anyone away from

women's conference who was going to be able to go to women's conference. So we're just having

our own women's conference here, all of us who aren't down at VYU, which is so fun. Okay, so we're going to dive into this talk on charity.

And then in the New Testament, we will be in John 5 is where we're going to go in a minute.

But I want to start out and just, this is our first like

introduction to charity talk, which is so fun. If you're just starting with us, we're doing

virtue and charity every other week because we're trying to find the balance of both because

of the invitation of our profit.

And so this is going to be a charity week, which I'm so happy about.

And I want to start out with a story.

So many of you know that a year ago, Greg was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which is not a fun

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