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We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study Scripture with you.

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teach and learn together. Hey there, welcome to our first episode of 2024 and also our first

episode of our first mini series that we will be starting in this upcoming year. We're excited about this one.

We think that it will be relevant to all that we want to talk, really the basis of what we're

studying and talking about this year, which is the Book of Mormon. So we're going to ask a few

significant questions in these upcoming episodes, and significant

questions that we hope will help improve your study of the Book of Mormon and improve

ours as well.

So I'm going to start off by asking Zach the most important question, because it's the first

one, which is, why should I read or study the Book of Mormon this year?

Yeah, so I really like this question

because we were sitting with our kids the other night

and talking about this upcoming year of the Book of Mormon.

And I was just thinking about myself,

having read the Book of Mormon multiple times,

as many of our listeners have, I wanted a why, I wanted a really good why, a reason why I wanted to study.

Well, that's good because as we were talking, I think it was last night, you were issuing

some challenges for the kids of like, hey, you could actually read, you could do

that this year, read it on your own. And it started to make me feel excited for each of our kids for

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