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hi everybody welcome to the mormon newscast i'm rebecca biblitaka it is monday january 22nd

and i am joined by our illustrious panel of newscasters. We have RFM. How are you tonight? I'm great. Thank you so much, Rebecca. And today's date is indeed January 22nd. Yes, RFM corrects all dates. Everyone be careful. And welcome, John DeLynn. Ah, thanks. Good to be here. Rebecca.

Greaty bunch. And of course, Bill Reel. How are you this evening?

Man, life is good and I'm excited for the program tonight.

Yeah, we have a lot of really interesting stories, and we are here committed to bring you all the top

interesting information in the Mormon landscape from this week.

Now, before we get started,

I have to give a little shout out to a group of very hardworking missionaries who I have been

informed watch this podcast regularly in the field. And I'm supposed to say, Busters go brazy.

I don't know what it means. They just told me to say it. I hope I didn't

just swear or get them in trouble. But welcome. It's nice to know that missionaries are watching the

podcast, I think. The church should be very, very concerned with that information.

I've notified the mission president so you know. Say it again, RFM. I've notified the mission

president. He's probably watching too.

I can't think of anything more educational to young missionaries in this podcast. Can you?

Mm-mm. I think it's great. All right. Let's go to our first slide and review very quickly the

stories that we're going to be talking about tonight. We have, oh, just one sec. Sorry. Sorry, one sec. Okay, go ahead. I know. I talk really fast.

No, it's good. We are going to be covering tonight, just so that all of you know, we're going to be

talking about the new female Latter-day Prophet has been called. We're going to be talking about

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