This podcast is exactly as it was four years ago, just like those oldies but goodies you

listen to on the radio that make you all nostalgic for years past. So may this podcast remind you of four years ago.

Dilly D.

And as always I'm your host Melanie Stroud. This is third Nephi 27 through fourth Nephi.

There could not be a happier people. I just want to start with a couple messages I got this week because there seems to be a theme going and it is a good theme I think but

Let me just go ahead and read the first one. This came from a review on iTunes, which I totally appreciate,

because like I said, it helps more people find the podcast.

So if you get a second and you can leave a review on iTunes that would be really helpful that it said this

Melanie is proof that God uses broken things Matthew West's song

Melanie is proof that God uses broken things in big ways.

With the assurance that none of us are perfect and our Heavenly Father and the Savior love us regardless,

Melanie shows us week after week how God's hand and love are constant in our life if we let him.

Thank you for enduring trials and learning from them so the rest of us can grow with you.

And when I read that, when it says,

if we let him, I thought of conference.

And I thought about President Nelson's talk about letting God prevail

in our life.

And I just want to read one thing that he said in that talk.

Are you willing to let God prevail in your life?

Are you willing to let God be the most important influence in your life?

Will you allow his words, his commandments, and his covenants to influence what you do each day?

Will you allow his voice to take priority over any other?

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