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.

We have so much to do today.

And it's so fun when we're just starting off what the next six months are going to look like. So where we're going to be today is in several different scriptures.

So you'll want all of your scriptures. And then we're going to be in President Nelson's talk

from conference, confidence in the presence of God. So today

is our kickoff. This is where we get started. And there are so many things that I want to think

about. I think what I want to do is start off.

If you want to grab your Doctrine and Covenants,

that we're going to dive in right there,

and then we'll go into the talk and then see if this is going to be better.

Sometimes on rainy days, we don't have great Instagram.

So I'm going to try and go off with Wi-Fi and see if that is going to

help us and then you tell me if we're having any trouble. So we're going to start in Doctor and Covenants

121. And let me tell you why we're starting there. Because in President Nelson's talk, he is going to talk about these two words,

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