We go to a scene of spirits in the pre-mortal world,

anticipating with perhaps some concern

their descent to a darkened world. We knew we would be taking a journey and must have wondered

how we could make it across the wilderness where so much would be insecure. Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow

Me podcast, where today we study from the Book of Mormon, Ether chapter 6 through 11,

in a lesson entitled, That Evil May Be Done Away. We just got home from our mission in Puerto

Rico. We've been serving there for the last year, and this is exciting to record in our own home studio

rather than in our Toyota Corolla mission car in the garage in our little home in Puerto Rico.

It was the only quiet place.

It was. It was the only place that we could just have enough quiet to be able to get through.

Sometimes we'd have to wait for honking cars or for animal noises or for rainstorms or thunder and lightning.

Or for that pair of macaws that flew over the house every day.

Those macaws were so loud, but we're glad to be back.

Next year, we will be studying the Doctrine and Covenants

which will bring us into a parallel study of church history. What could be a better gift then

than a come follow me church history calendar for your wall that includes the readings for each week?

As a professional photographer, I have hundreds of thousands of photos of church history,

but the pages of this calendar focus on a set of my favorite all-time images taken at Joseph Smith's

farm just outside of Palmyra one morning when the sun and the mist produced visual magic.

In its pages, you can practically feel the 14-year-old boy walking into a grove of

trees, or be there in the Smith home where the plates were hid beneath the hearth.

What I love about this calendar, Scott, is that it is like an art piece of beauty for your

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