Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become more real

to us so that we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get.

I'm your host, Carrie Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have back with me.

My regular partner in,

we won't say partner in crime for talking about the scriptures, but partner in good things,

Dr. Andrew Skinner. Thanks for her being with us, Andy. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

It's a privilege to be with you, honestly.

Well, I feel the same way. So we're just glad to get into this today.

I think that we have no need of a further introduction for Dr. Skinner. He's been with us so many times, but I'll just say quickly that he's, I count him as a mentor of mine,

especially as we've been in Jerusalem together, but at other times.

And it was the dean when I was first teaching adjunct, and was the department chair before that

and has headed up the farm slash Maxwell Institute

and done a thousand thousand good things and currently serves in a branch presidency at the MTC

if I understand correctly. That is correct. I don't think we've said that before. And has the

most marvelous wife, I should say, truly a wonderful, amazing woman.

And so that's probably the most important thing to know about Dr. Skinner.

What else should be?

Well, you like the rest of my colleagues, spare no effort and reminding me that I married miles above me.

So thanks for pouring lemon juice in the wounds.

Well, it's okay. You've said it to me

a number of times, so it's all fair. I should get, I think, credit for being at least clever enough

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