Hello and Shakin' Saints, Gert Halverson here, glad to have you back and glad to be picking up right where we left off last week.

We have finished our three weeks, our three rounds of Hansen's law.

We had a group that started in Zairehemla and then left to go live among the Lamanites and then they came to their senses when they were there and started their move back home.

As of the end of last week, they're all back. The three rounds are over, the prodigal has returned, we've

seen him leave, come to himself, and then return. But in some ways this is where the real

work begins. Because who does the prodigal meet when he comes back home?

Yes, the father, and that's the good news,

but also the older brother.

And when you have people that have left and returned coming together with people who have never left and always stayed there.

Sometimes there's some friction.

In terms of the stage model of faith, it's people in creation stage,

reuniting with people who went through fall stage

and are really striving hard to come to the atonement stage.

Hopefully all of us are, right?

But how do we get two groups to become one again?

And that question can apply in a lot of different situations.

Not just returning prodigals, but differences of opinion.

It could be interfaith dialogue.

It could be political impasses, family reunions, whatever it might be.

How do we get two to become one? Now in some ways it's an even bigger challenge here because we're

trying to get four to become one. We'll see that as we as we progress here,

but let's start in chapter 25 of Mosiah. We're going to be going through 25, 26, 27,

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