Hello everyone welcome to another episode of follow him. My name's Hank Smith and I'm your host. I'm here with my co-host. John by the way, who is a sober co-host and quick to observe.

John, I was reading in the Book of Mormon in the Book of Mormon, and that verse stood out to me.

I perceive that thou art a sober, co-host, and quick to observe.

Now John, when you think of the Book of Mormon, in the Book of Mormon, what comes to mind?

Oh, I think of children who have to grow up

too fast I think of Mormon who saw unspeakable things and doesn't even want to tell

us about it it was so bad and then those things that you just said talking about you're going to need to be quick to observe because you're going to be a historian and a bridgeer. That's what I think of.

It was a while, John, before I realized that we learn about Mormon all the way

through this book. This isn't the first time we're actually going oh who is this

guy he has been speaking to us for so long and now we finally get to hear about his life, his story.

And to help us out today, John, we have Dr. Larry Nelson here.

Dr. Nelson joined us last year in Corinthians. Larry, we're happy to have you back.

Tell us what we're going to do today. Well, I'm excited after hundreds of pages in the book Mormon covering hundreds of years that we finally

get to really meet the man who has abridged this book who we've heard little snippets from.

But I'm so excited to learn about him, maybe what shaped

his early years that made him pay attention to certain things and affected what he chose to include in

his abridgment and then digging a little bit to what he really wanted us to take from what he wrote and he says that in his own words

and I'm excited to look at that.

I've come to appreciate Mormon a lot more as I continue to read. One thing I did as a reader is I didn't understand that when we get

Mormon for the first time, it's in the words of Mormon and we don't know who he is but he thinks we know who he is.

He says I Mormon I'm going to give this record that I've been making to my son

Maroni and you're going who are you I've read from Nephi and Jacob. I don't know who you are.

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