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🗓️ 27 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Classic Speaches Podcast presented by BYU Speaches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals. |
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0:15.0 | or by visitingspeeches.bYu.edu slash podcasts. I'm pleased to be down here on the floor of the Marriott Center, |
0:27.5 | but I hope it's okay if I confess to having dreamt here, dreamt of being here in years past. |
0:34.4 | Now, well, actually, the dreams were more like fantasies, and they involved the basketball |
0:39.3 | floor and skills I never really developed very well, not this podium, but I did dream about |
0:46.3 | being down here in the past. |
0:50.3 | In truth, it's a pleasure to have this opportunity to talk with you. |
0:56.0 | I plan my remarks in the spirit of Nephi of old |
1:00.0 | that I might speak with plainness, that I might be understood. |
1:05.0 | I also hope that my interpretations of scriptures are obvious and straightforward. Maybe an incident in my |
1:15.6 | own life will explain a little bit of what I mean. A few years ago, I lived in Blacksburg, Virginia. |
1:23.1 | This is a university town in the Appalachian Plateau. While there, I went to renew my driver's license at the Department of Motor Vehicles. |
1:35.3 | And as a part of that process, the clerk asked me to look into a box on the counter and take an eye test. |
1:45.0 | I looked and she asked me to read what I saw. |
1:48.0 | Well, there were a number of lines and numbers in that box that I could read, |
1:55.0 | so I took a bit of time trying to think where to start. |
1:59.0 | As I hesitated, I heard a board voice say, |
2:03.6 | out loud, please. Well, she thought the task was obvious. I was not quick enough to see it so. |
2:16.6 | I hope today to find the right lines to read with you, |
2:22.3 | to explore a topic that we can all see as important, if not obvious. |
2:28.3 | Let me ask you now to look around, |
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