Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Dr. Richard

Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life

and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide

context for events of the past.

They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm Dr. Garrett Dirkmott's friend, Dr. Richard Leduc.

Happy Hanukkah and happy belated Christmas.

We hope that you're having a wonderful holiday season with Kith and Kin.

This week's episode is going to be a little bit different.

We had a couple of different interviews with a couple of folks, and we wanted to air them here.

The first will be an interview with Garrett and Super Friend of the Show J.T.

J.T. is a younger litner to the podcast, and Garrett had an opportunity to meet up with J.T. and his folks for lunch and

they recorded a short little interview that we wanted to play here. Following the interview with J.T.

I'm going to read the official letter that President Ruggiero sent out to the Rio Gajegos district announcing the temple trip.

And then we are going to have an interview that Garrett and I had with President Ruggiero,

where he expresses his gratitude to the litters of the podcast for their donations

and shares several powerful experiences that he had in the preparation

for the temple trip as well as that he experienced when we were all together in the

Buenos Aires Temple.

So we hope that you will enjoy these two interviews.

Thank you for another wonderful year of the Standard of Truth podcast.

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