Hello, welcome to the Scripture Study Project. Our podcast dedicated to helping you discover

the scriptures in a fresh way, invest your mind and heart into your personal study, and connect

to God in your everyday life. We are your hosts, Zach and Krista Horton, and this week we are excited to be here to study

in Doctrine and Covenants, sections 30 through 36.

Now you might have noticed that last week we played an old episode from a couple years ago that we recorded for

Easter. We thought about taking a break, but thought that the celebration of Holy Week,

something that we really have enjoyed doing over the past couple years is just making each

day leading up to Easter a special time in our home

and our family and it's been really meaningful for us. So we added that just as a little,

hopefully a helpful reminder to you during your Easter week. Now this episode is being released

right before Easter. So either you have already celebrated Easter because you're

listening to it after Easter or you're going to listen before and we wanted to wish you a happy

Easter, happy general conference or hoping that you already had a good Easter and general

conference. But we're looking forward today to be here with you as we study

sections 30 through 36. But from two weeks ago, our question that I think really actually

brings us into this week's episode really well. Our question was, what motivates me to gather myself

and others to the Savior?

If you remember, Section 29 was all about the Second Coming, gathering, gathering Israel, gathering ourselves and others.

And so the question was, what is our motivation?

And we just wanted to share a couple of the replies that we got from you.

The first one, the more I study,

the more I know of the character of my Savior. The more I want to get closer, the more I want

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