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.

I'm so excited to be here with you, our first class.

And I'm just gonna grab our first guest too.

And then I will tell you

where we're gonna be studying.

We are starting off today. It's week one of our study. We're gonna be studying. We are starting off today. It's, it's week one of our study. We're going to be

studying President Nelson's morning talk. Oh, yay, you did it. I'm just telling everybody where

we're going to be. So we're going to be President Nelson's talk Sunday morning. And then we're going to be in the New Testament

Matthew 11 and then we are going to be in Mosiah 2 so grab your Book of Mormon

2 if you want to and everybody let me say where I am. I'm in Los Angeles. Surprise. We are here,

Garrett, so my son Garrett, who plays for the Broncos, got hurt in the Thursday night game.

So we have flown out today for surgery.

He is in surgery right now, so everybody, we're just praying during all of inklings for Garrett's surgery to go really well.

And I'm in a hotel room, just right across the street from the L.A. airport from L.A.X. That is where I am right now. We're having inklings. And this is Tammy Rooney,

who is going to be joining us today. I'm so excited about. So Tammy, I'm going to let you

right now introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you because otherwise I forget

and I figure everyone else knows you too. So you get to just tell us a little bit about who you are and

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