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.

Let me tell you where we're going to be today.

We're studying Elder Kieran's talk.

So Jesus Christ and your new beginning is where we'll be.

And for a minute, we'll go into the book of Ezekiel because it's the Old Testament year, so why wouldn't we?

So you'll want your old testament and um then we'll we'll just dive right in so those are the two things that you want how is 2026 going everyone that's um where i'm at today is just thinking, okay, we really are into a new year now and what

is this new year going to look like? And as we got into the new year, I thought it's so

interesting how Inklings is split up into two semesters. I don't know if any of you have thought about this before, but the April semester, we get

our call out, our invitation, and we start going and you move into it and build into it slowly,

and you just fill that momentum growing all through until

October. But does anyone feel like this about October? We get our October invitation. And what

happens is we get it. We get all settled. We get all ready to start. And then it's Thanksgiving.

And then it's Christmas. And then it's Christmas, and then

it's New Year's Eve, and then it's January, and does anyone else feel like this is happening?

Okay, what is our study? What are we doing right now? And hold on one second. Cute Greg is getting

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