Please, Heavenly Father, I need your help, or I need thy help, I guess, to use the proper language

of prayer.

But it can begin that simply.

And I know that in my own life, sometimes that's just that simple petition, please help

me to get back on the right track makes all the difference in the world.

Hello and welcome to the Scriptures, a Real Podcast.

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

because we believe that allows us to apply them to our lives more and draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. I'm your host, Kerry

Mielstein, and as always, I'm so happy to have with us my returning guest and dear friend

and mentor and everything else, Dr. Andrew Skinner. Welcome, Andy. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.

It's good to have you with us.

Our audience will be familiar with Andy if they've listened to us very much at all.

I don't even know how many episodes you've been on, but it's been a number, and we're glad about it.

And not a lot that has changed about him. He's still in the church,

and he's still very smart, and he still has accomplished a lot of wonderful things in terms of

both academics and spiritual elements of his life. And are you still serving in a branch presidency

at the MTC? We are. We've been there now about three years,

and we, if we're lucky, we'll be able to continue for another year, and then they'll release us.

As they say sometimes about church callings, you're called by inspiration, but you're released

by computer. Yeah, yeah. I had a friend who's in a state presidency right now, and they said, you're called by inspiration, but you're released by computer. Yeah, yeah. Or I had a friend who is in his state presidency right now, and they said,

you're called by inspiration and released by the calendar.

So, yeah, there you go.

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