This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it.

I'm your host, Melanie Straub.

Okay, I have tried a few times to add my current thoughts to this podcast.

And every time I get way lateid, I get distracted, and so I just decided I

wasn't going to do one this week and I was just going to do next week. And this morning,

I thought, well, what if it's Satan that's trying to waylay it? What if he doesn't want

people to hear about forgiveness or whatever?

So here it is and there aren't any new thoughts on here, but maybe that's for a reason.

So I will see you next week. Enjoy. This is ether six to 11 that evil may be done away. And I'm in a hotel room,

in Utah. I don't have my microphone. I wasn't planning on doing a podcast here. But let me just

go ahead and read from the manual about this. It says hundreds of years after the Jaredites were destroyed,

the Nephites discovered the ruins of their ancient civilization. Among these ruins was a mysterious

record, plates of pure gold that were filled with engravings. The Nephite king Limhye could sense

that this record was important. Doubtless, a great mystery is contained within these plates, he said.

Today you have an abridgment of this record, translated into your language, and it's called

the Book of Ether. It comes from the same record that the Nephites were desirous beyond measure

to read, and when they did, they were filled with sorrow. Nevertheless, it gave them much knowledge

in which they did rejoice.

As you read about the rise and tragic fall of the Jaredites, you'll find many sorrowful moments,

but don't overlook the joy of learning lessons from history. After all, as Moroni wrote,

it is wisdom and God that these things should be shown unto you. For if we can learn from the

failures and successes of the Jaredites,

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