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Pogasts. This devotional address entitled,

The Tree, the Fruit and the Building,

was given on April 2nd of 2024 by Rick Anderson,

then the BYU University librarian.

Well, I'm pretty sure I know what's going through your minds right now.

You're thinking, oh good, the library director, this is going to be gripping.

What can I say? It is what it is.

My brothers and sisters, I have thought carefully and prayed intensely for guidance in preparing for this very unusual opportunity. I am deeply conscious of the privileged access I'm being given to your time and

attention and because you're precious to me and infinitely more so to your

Heavenly Father I've been anxious to say all the things and only the things

that will be most helpful to you during our few moments together. In my

professional writing and speaking, my goal is always to determine and to convey effectively things that are both true and useful.

And I'm trying to do that here today as well, but with a big difference. In my professional speaking, I try to focus on things

that are contingently true and professionally useful. Today my hope is to share things that are radically true and eternally significant.

As we visit together, my prayer is that I'll share things that can be ratified in all of our

hearts by the witness of the Holy

Ghost and that as a result we'll all be edified together. As we all know the

book of First Nephi and the Book of Mormon contains an account of a visionary dream given

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