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Welcome. For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org. Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be in section 30 through 36 of the Doctrine Covenants.

And this really is a smorgasborg, that's a fun word, of lots of different people. And there's a big pattern here,

and there's also a lot of little sub-stories. And so sometimes if you're teaching this,

you can kind of get lost in the details and what's important. And I think one of the things

Bryce and I want to do with this podcast is help you see that there's so many different ways to teach this, depending on the needs of your family, and even where they are in their lives.

If you look only at section 30 through 36, you might say there's limited material here, but they are springboards into some very wonderful conversations, big picture type things that you can

have with students this week. So they lead to some tremendous discussion. So Mike and I are going to kind

of go off onto a few different tangents, hopefully to help you see that there's a thread that

weaves through them that you can tie together. And the irony, what Bryce just said is we're going to springboard and go down roads.

That's literally what's happening in these sections.

These people are being called and they're all going on different roads.

And so it's a great metaphor for this whole scripture block.

Yeah.

So let's start with kind of the big picture of what's going on. Do you remember back in Section 28 with the Hiram Paged Searstone that Oliver Cowdrey was called on a mission to preach to the Lamanites?

Now, I'm imagining in my head, like is so common today, that he creates this expectation that, oh, I'm going to go out there and we're going to convert thousands of Lamanites and everything I'm reading in the Book of Mormon about the Lamanites and

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