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Welcome to Closer to Christ through General Conference, where two friends who love Jesus Christ share our own approach to studying the most recent General Conference talks.

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This is Abby and Amy. Let's jump into it.

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Today we're talking about the talk, The Lord Jesus Christ Will Come Again, and this is by our beloved prophet, President Russell M. Nelson.

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I'm sure you'll all remember this came at the very end of conference, and so this is out of our normal sequence, but we're doing this today for a particular purpose.

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We did notice the church news came out with a lesson aid for Relief Society and Elder's Quorum Lessons.

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They've broken up the talk into bite-sized pieces, notable quotes, notable scriptures, and they've shared a text version.

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They've shared a video version.

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So if you're looking at this podcast, like four ideas to share with Relief Society or Elder's Quorum, that's great.

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If this is for your personal study, I think you'll still find that resource useful.

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And so this will be linked in the show notes.

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We wondered if it was just going to be on the prophets talk that this was done on.

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And actually, when it came out, I was like, Amy, we're off the hook. They're breaking these down into they're doing the work for us.

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And so I prayed to the Father, I'm like, hey, are we done with the podcast?

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And he's like, no, you're not done.

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So I guess you get to hear a few more episodes until he says that it's done.

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We both felt like we're to keep going.

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So whether it's for you or for us or a combination, we're all in this together.

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Yes. So check out the show notes, look for those quick study guides, study guide or Relief Society,

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Elder's Quorum aid if you're preparing to teach a lesson, you can kind of see how they set it up.

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I will say for this talk, I did my own prep for it.

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And then I went back into the study aid to see like how our discussion questions were similar or different.

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And they coordinated pretty equally.

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I would say it is not meant for you to get through all of the material.

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There's no way.

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Yes, it's still going to take some reflection and some decisions on what questions you're going to want to put out there for your classes

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so that you can actually get deep into something specific rather than trying to rush through everything just quick.

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Right.

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It is not possible to cover everything.

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So but in case you thought, you know, this quote in the scripture and that was important,

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it should kind of at your fingertips to grab so much easier.

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I agree.

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So let's do this.

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All right.

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So jumping right in, the Lord has spoken to us through his servants.

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I urge you to study this message, their messages, use them as a litmus test of what is true and what is not during the next six months.

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And then he reminds us that between the renovation of the Salt Lake Temple, dedication or rededication of nine temples in five countries,

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between now and the end of the year, we will we will dedicate five more and plans to construct 17 more temples.

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And he asks, do you see what is happening right before your eyes?

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This is a majestic moment.

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The Lord is indeed hastening his work.

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Abby, I love that part when he said, do you see what is happening right before your our eyes?

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Because sometimes, you know, when we talk about the last days and the things that are going to happen or even right now,

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you can kind of tend to feel more negative on the negative side than the positive.

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So I just love that, again, our prophet modeled for us the way to be grateful is a way to live in the present.

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That helps us with anxiety, which is looking towards the future and depression, which is looking towards the past.

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Live in the now.

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So I love that part.

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Do you do you see the hastening of his work in the latter days?

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For sure.

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In what ways are you seeing that?

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Well, for one, it took us forever to get to 100 temples.

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And now just today at the recording yesterday, he just did the one in Tuala.

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That is 200.

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That's amazing.

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So it's just with the temples.

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I am just almost flabbergasted.

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Like I can't even believe that we are building them at that type of rate.

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Absolutely.

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I thought, you know, the change of the missionary age kind of nods to the work hastening our ability to share the gospel

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through social platforms.

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Hastens the work.

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Also using technology for family history.

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Oh, yeah.

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Even imagine Abby having all those.

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What were they called?

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Book of Remembrance.

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Those huge books that were an odd size.

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You have to go through like microfiche, right?

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Stuff.

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Yes, that that is not what is needed now.

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I mean, that is not what is necessary.

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Like we have it at our fingertips and we literally I'm sitting at home and I get a notice on my phone that somebody

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has completed an ordinance for one of my family members.

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You're keeping an eye on.

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Yes, I love it.

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So yeah, there's just so much good stuff.

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We can sit and we can pinpoint little things that are happening here and there.

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We can identify with our eyes how the Lord's hastening is work.

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But for the purpose of this talk, I feel like he set us up with that information on the temples and the fact that the 200th

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one was dedicated just over the weekend to say that the temples are a sign.

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Part of it.

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That we're in the latter days and it's a way that the Lord's hastening his work.

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And then I love he asks us, why are we building temples at such an unprecedented rate?

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Yeah, you can get two answers to that.

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The church wants to hide their money somewhere.

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They want to be showy.

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I don't know.

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Like you can get some skeptical comments about it.

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But I know at my heart that the answer is different than that.

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Right from the talk, it says the Lord's instructed us to do so.

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Yeah, I love when he says that.

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What we've been told.

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Yeah, we'll just do what we were told to.

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The blessings of the temple help us gather Israel on both sides of the veil and blessing temple blessings are to help prepare people who will help prepare the world for the second coming of the Lord.

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Love that.

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Like no, no amount of effort is wasted when it's temple bound.

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And it is so great, too, because in this talk, I noticed more than ever he has tied things.

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So right here, temple blessings also help to prepare a people who will prepare the world for the second coming of the Lord.

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He has attached the people to the temple than to the Lord.

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He kind of gives us a point a point B point C.

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I don't know. He just his teaching style is just fantastic to me.

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I love it.

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I love the correlations he draws and I love how he invites my man my mind to expand.

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If you didn't recognize that as a sign that the Lord's hastening his work, maybe with these new ears, you'll hear that at the next conference.

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Every time a temple is mentioned in the land, not not going to be in my area.

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I've already got one here.

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I'm just as excited for them as I was for myself because I know the difference that it's going to make in their lives.

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Oh, yeah.

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There was a direct quote.

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They said when Jesus Christ returns, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the Prince of peace.

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You know how much I love different names of Jesus.

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He will govern from both old Jerusalem and New Jerusalem built upon the American continent from these two centers.

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He will direct the affairs of his church in that day.

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The Lord will be known as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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Those who are with him will be called and chosen and faithful.

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So when when's a good time to start preparing for that Amy?

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Pretty much right now.

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Yesterday.

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He's done that a couple of times.

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Right.

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But if yesterday is not available, then now is the best time.

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He says now is the time for you and me to prepare for the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Now is the time for us to make our discipleship our highest priority.

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And there's so many things that are pulling our time and attention away, so we have to ask our question in this world with dizzying distractions.

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How can we identify that we make discipleship our highest priority?

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He again gets us to be thinking about the temple, right?

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Regular worship in the temple will help us in the house of the Lord.

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We focus on Jesus Christ and more so now than ever.

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They they have cut it to the quick.

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It is just streamlined.

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Yes, it's streamlined and it's so Christ centered.

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Not that it wasn't before, but it literally it's spelled out so clearly.

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And so all of all of the all of the extra things for me, I guess it just it clears my mind in such a way that I I take what I get from the endowment and then my mind isn't like, oh, you know, what do I need to remember?

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What am I going to be doing?

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I I really can open myself up more to the revelation that I'm there to get in the temple.

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That's wonderful.

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I love that. And I also feel like I have more time to spend in the celestial room, right?

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Because it's so condensed.

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Or you get home to a babysitter or whatever it is.

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Yeah, your time.

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So in the house of the Lord, we focus on Jesus Christ.

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We learn of him.

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We make covenants to follow him.

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We come to know him.

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And we keep as we keep our temple covenants, we gain greater access to the Lord's strengthening power in the temple.

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We receive protection from the buffettings of the world.

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We experience the pure love of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father in great abundance.

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We feel peace and spiritual reassurance in contrast to the turbulence of the world.

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Isn't it true like half of the membership maybe attend the temple?

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I don't know.

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I don't think it's like it's not God's.

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It's about half, I think.

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I'm just guessing here.

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But all I know is if you think about an award situation, he's saying at your fingertips, you have this access to power that just it's his strengthening power.

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It can help us in whatever circumstances are coming our way and it is not too late to make those covenants and tap into that power.

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So, of course, as the prophet, that's what he is going to be preaching from the pulpit.

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Get into his temples.

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Let the temple come into you.

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Take those covenants with you and navigate the challenges that the world has.

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That's so good, Abby.

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Plenty in store for us.

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A question for you, how, Abby, how have you found greater access to the Lord's strengthening power through your temple covenants?

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I think I'm just like everybody else.

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There's like limited time to get lots of things done.

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And I've really thought a lot about what will air is like the last episode we did on burying our weapons.

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I really considering the things that I'm doing and how I'm demonstrating what's a priority to me and I really got like kind of.

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Or whatever, like I was thinking about the work piece of my life and I was like, I've been doing a maternity coverage and so I'm working way more than I would intentionally work.

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And how I'm seeing that reflected is that my temple attendance isn't as like, oh, I'm just going to pop into the temple.

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Like, I feel like to give my kids their fair share of time and balance the work thing, it's the temple piece that's kind of taking the back burner.

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And I really like better balance in my life than that.

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It's missing. So then that's how I know I need to rain back on.

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It's just good to be aware of it because the next thing you can do is act on that.

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So I've seen I've seen great blessings as I use that as a litmus, I guess, as we used at the beginning of this talk for where some adjustment needs to be made in my life.

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When I have time for the temple, I have time for everything else.

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Love that.

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I'm not in my personal life.

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I'm not.

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And I'm not saying you couldn't.

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You could definitely neglect family work.

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You could at the expense of the temple.

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But I'm just saying I know what it feels like to be a balance in those things.

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And I feel like I have some adjusting to make for myself right now.

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That's awesome.

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But I've seen blessings when it is when it is like equal focus and all of those important areas in my life.

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What about you?

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Is there anything you want to share about how you found access to the Lord's strengthening power to his temple?

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For me, again, it's just when I go there and spend time there, I feel like I'm able to.

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I'm a vessel and I'm able to bring that.

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Yeah, I'm glad you said that.

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A piece and hope and my covenants and all of the things that essentially helped me to make it through that day or that week.

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I bring it with me and the more I go, the more I scoop that up and bring it into my home and just it permeates my life.

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And that was a life changing lesson that we learned as we studied Sister Annette Dennis' talk early on last conference.

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Put it put put you on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And when you've made those temple covenants, those garments stand as a daily reminder of the covenants that you've made.

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And you you definitely can draw on the power of the temple, you know, not being in it.

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But for me is finding that balance.

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That's true.

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I definitely if I if I didn't learn that lesson and really take that to heart last conference might be like, oh, you know, it's been three weeks, four weeks, whatever, since I've been to the temple.

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But I'm never far from those covenants.

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They're they're with me all the time.

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You know, it's interesting you say that because I just this past weekend I was thinking about, you know,

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Qatar when I put on my my garments and that does signify my temple covenants.

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Right. But it was interesting because in my prayers, they a little bit changed.

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I was asking Heavenly Father, I was like, Heavenly Father, as I put on the temple garment, like today, I was facing a specific challenge and I said,

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what power of Christ's atonement do I need to be covered with today?

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And what came to me was I just had the thought and the feeling to be covered with Christ's power to forgive.

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You might not have it in you right now.

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You're working toward it, but you need Christ's power.

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Like that is where true protection and there are so many different powers of Christ's atonement that we can claim.

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So I like to be specific about what I need at that point.

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And that was that was insightful to me.

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That's really good pieces of personal revelation for yourself.

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And we each have that opportunity if we take it.

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Absolutely.

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The Prophet promised us every see sincere seeker of Jesus Christ will find him in the temple.

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You will fill his mercy.

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You will find answers to your most vexing questions.

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You will better comprehend the joy of his gospel.

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That's so good. That was my most vexing question at that point.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Like that's how the power of the temple just comes into our lives is we're asking questions and turning to God.

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He will show us and help us.

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And it's really it could be very insignificant for other people.

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They could hear it and go, oh, that's cool.

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But for you, it makes all the difference.

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And that's how you know it was straight from God.

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Like it was it resonates with you.

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It's possible to not be feeling very comfortable when you're in the temple.

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I just had a patient last week and she's going through some issues and some a troubling time in her marriage.

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And she said she sat there in the session and she was just like uncomfortable the whole time.

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And I'm thinking about it right now, like I'm pondering on like, what does that mean?

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But for her, it's caused her to reflect.

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Is her marriage something that she wants to work on and stay with and put the effort into or not?

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Isn't that just as good as feeling peaceful about your marriage?

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Like it gave her the gusto to say, like she wants to feel comfortable when she hears these promises for forever and this bond binding and stuff.

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You want to be peaceful in a place of peace.

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Rather than wanting to throw it away in a world that's pretty quick to throw things away.

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That's a good point, Abby.

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So I think I wanted to think like Satan was bound.

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He couldn't come into temples.

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But you've taught me like you've pointed out.

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You're like, well, he that's not necessarily a promise.

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Right.

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I think we know how to thwart him a lot differently.

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Oh, yeah.

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Should he come in those spaces?

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So the prophet said the most crucial question we each must answer is this to whom or what will I give my life through action or inaction?

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We are picking our discipleship who our discipleship lies with.

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And he said his do you want to quote him?

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Sure.

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He says, My decision to follow Jesus Christ is the most important decision I have ever made.

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During medical school, I gained a testimony of the divinity of God, the father and his son, Jesus Christ.

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Since then, our Savior has been the rock upon which I have built my life.

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That choice has made all the difference.

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That decision has made so many other decisions easier.

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That decision has given me purpose and direction.

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It has also helped me weather the storms of life.

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And boy, has he had some storms.

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The unexpected passing of his dear wife, Dancil, and being held at gunpoint to the head with his sweet wife, Wendy.

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In both experiences, there was a peace which passeth all understanding.

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We were then promised by the prophet of the Lord that he will comfort us too.

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He says he will strengthen you.

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He will bless you with peace even amidst chaos.

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When I heard those stories, I thought those were perfect examples of how he's helped him in chaotic times.

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And I thought what storms of life have been made easier for you because of your decision to follow Jesus Christ?

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Asking that to myself, you, the audience members.

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That's something I think we should each stop and reflect on because...

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Everyone's storms are different.

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They're going to be different.

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And I think in a Relief Society or Elders' Quorum setting, like just a moment to pause and see like where is your testimony founded on?

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Why do you do the things that you do to get to know like the core, like what's made people, what's built them into the people that they are?

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Absolutely.

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Because most of the time you just, you have, you see somebody like, oh man, they're so great.

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Kind of wish that I could be like them.

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Well, you don't really know the price that it was paid to make them into that person.

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That is true.

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That you wish that you would be, right? Could be.

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And then you hear their challenges and trials that you're like, you keep those.

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I wish I didn't have those.

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So I don't know that it really matters for us to share our storms of life that have reflected on that.

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But I definitely stopped her for myself and I thought what pieces and they're not sweet moments in my life.

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They're the dark, they're the dark moments in my life that have shaped that decision.

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And I feel like the prophets were too, a death and a near-death experience.

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Yeah, they don't, they're not sweet moments.

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They're personal.

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But if you feel inclined to share them, that could be real special in a lesson situation.

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So I made this note.

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Let's add to the promise of Jesus Christ to you.

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I will be on your right hand and on your left and my spirit shall be in your hearts and my angels round about you to bear you up.

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There is no limit to the Savior's capacity to help you.

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His incomprehensible suffering in Gethsemane and on Calvary was for you.

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His infinite atonement is for you.

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I love that past tense, the action that he did all those years ago.

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And then the is being in this moment right here, right now in the present tense,

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that atonement is the gift that came because of what did happen in Calvary.

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I also love too, how he emphasizes that there is no limit to the Savior's capacity to help you.

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So then that tells me, well, if I'm feeling limited, then the limit is on my end.

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I am not currently, if that's the way I'm feeling, reaching for Christ and his atonement as strong as I could be.

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I think we've heard before, I don't remember, maybe with Socrates,

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but he said, took someone, put them under the water so they couldn't breathe and then pulled them out.

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And someone asked him a question, you know, what's the answer to this?

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And he said, when you want to know the answer as bad as you just wanted air, then you'll find it.

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So it's like our reaching is matched by him answering us.

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Anyway, I just thought that was interesting about the limiting because we're the ones that are limited.

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He kicks into some action items that parallel exactly with what you say.

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The first one, I'll just list them in order so they can find them back in the talk.

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But he said, devote time each week for the rest of your life to increase your understanding of the atonement of Jesus Christ.

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What I find is super interesting about that is that the next thing that he brings up totally hinges on the idea.

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If you understand the atonement because you've utilized it in your life,

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because you've seen somebody else applied in their life and the change that they've made,

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it's like storing oil in your vessel for a later time that you've seen at work.

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Once a week, weekly, daily, momently.

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I also appreciate the way that he didn't invite us.

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He urged us. And I also love he's always very specific with his wording.

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He said, take time to seek to understand.

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He didn't just say study it because studying doesn't necessarily bring us to an understanding of things.

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But seeking to understand and utilize the Savior's atonement, that is life-changing.

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That's what I was saying about my study.

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This will tie in well with the topical guide study I'm doing with Jesus Christ.

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And then Adam showed me another one in the Bible dictionary.

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Adam, where was it?

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Bible dictionary.

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Guide to the scriptures.

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Jesus Christ's name under Bible dictionary.

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Like it looks like a lifetime of study.

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What I decided was his entire purpose was to come and perform the atonement.

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So any time that I spend studying the life of Jesus Christ is actually studying about the atonement.

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So I feel like my time is doubly awesome.

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You're killing two birds with one stone, girl.

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And like I said before, the way that I approached this before was literally like a checkbox.

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Like, yep, I read every scripture reference that was in there.

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I would say that was what I would classify as studying versus understanding it.

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Like I will stop on a verse for like a lot of minutes until I can write something about what I've experienced,

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what I'm understanding from it as I'm making those testimony notes next to that reference in the topical guide.

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It's a different experience.

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It's already going way better.

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So that was the big one.

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If we understand the atonement, then he next talks about the heartache for those who are in mire,

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who are mired in sin and don't know how to get out.

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I weep for those.

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I know that's not faking that.

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He literally cries for the people.

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Me.

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That could be me in a moment of my life.

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I weep for those who spiritually struggle to carry heavy burdens alone because they don't understand what Jesus Christ did for them.

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Amen.

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And so I asked, when have you experienced the healing by yoking yourself to the Savior?

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Oh, gosh.

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I don't want to get one that's going to have me crying here.

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But I will say this, Abby, there was a moment at the beginning of 2023 where I experienced some really hard things.

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And it was just interesting because one of the thoughts I didn't realize that I had was how could the Lord let this happen?

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And I'd never felt that before.

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Like a sort of piece of anger, like an anger towards the situation.

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Surprise and like almost like, wait, no, that's not the God I know.

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That's how it felt.

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And so I wrestled with that.

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And it was like, wait a second, Amy, let's step back here for a minute.

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Because sometimes personal pain and struggle can blind you to what really who God is.

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And when you heard Savior and you thought that that meant save you from the hard things that would happen in your life, you misunderstood.

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That's not what the Savior is.

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He will redeem every situation.

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He will walk with you through every situation, but he's not going to take something away that would truly polish and round out the rough edges.

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So I just felt like that's truly yoking yourself.

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And that's the greatest gift is that he walks with you in the trials because his desire is for you to be like him.

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Yep.

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Doesn't take it away.

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Yeah.

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To take care of the problem for you wouldn't teach the lesson.

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And if you were to consider that you'd solve the problem by yourself, it also doesn't.

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Amen.

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It would be grossly inadequate if I were to solve these problems by myself.

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He has infinite experience and wisdom.

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How about you, Abby?

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I'm not going to comment.

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I know, right?

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I feel like, yeah, I put you under the bus.

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I feel like I'm going to dodge that one.

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All right.

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My life has been made infinitely better when there are things, challenges, hard times,

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heartaches, whatever word I want to put into it.

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The trials in my life have been navigated with my Savior Jesus Christ.

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It took me a while to learn that the waves and the winds and the storm tossed sea filling is not my job to like take a seasickness pill in my stomach.

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That it's to be in that boat and let him encompass me like the storm can be raging.

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You can feel it totally at peace.

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Amen to that one.

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So like sometimes I just toss that over to my like, I'm not doing this day.

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I don't even want to do this day.

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You're doing this day with me and we yoke ourselves and we get about it and what we finish we do and what we don't.

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It's like whatever.

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I love that.

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That's a healthy mindset.

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That's just a glimpse of what a day can look like.

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Life experiences, bigger life things.

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I'm definitely becoming a new person because I tend to anxiety and so like I would want to solve future problems that haven't even been in creation yet.

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I'm like, I'm trying to not be that person.

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I'm living for, I'm living today.

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Yes.

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Let's see.

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Quote, Jesus Christ took upon himself your sins, your pains, your heartaches, your infirmities.

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I felt that in my life.

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I feel like I'm not just asking him to try to understand me.

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I feel like he knows what I'm going through more than anybody.

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And that's probably been because of some significant work to understand the atonement of Jesus Christ.

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I would agree.

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You do not have to bear them alone.

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He will forgive you as you repent.

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He will bless you with what you need.

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He will heal your wounded soul as you yoke yourself to him.

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Your burdens will fill lighter.

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If you make and keep covenants to follow Jesus Christ, you will find that painful moments of your life are temporary.

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Your afflictions will be swallowed up in the joy of Christ.

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So I would put forth if you've ever felt your burdens lightened in the midst of the trial, then that's a litmus test that you've done your job to anchor yourself to him and yoke yourself with Jesus Christ.

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I did some studying and pulled the scripture out myself.

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Isaiah 61, 6, the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.

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He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and opening of the prison to them that are bound.

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The reason that I pulled that was it doesn't say I came to pat the good people that never make any mistakes on the head and tell them good job.

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You're like one of two people that are making it back with me.

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That's not who he's talking to.

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But I'm like, I'm everyone.

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I'm captive.

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I am brokenhearted.

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You know, my young self might be like, oh, he's, you know, that's for everybody else.

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No, I've needed that so many times in my last 40 years that that verse is for me.

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And I think everybody else has walked the earth other than him.

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I'd love to share that.

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It is neither too early nor too late for you to become a devote, devout disciple of Jesus Christ.

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Then you will experience fully the blessings of his atonement.

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You will also be more effective in helping to gather Israel.

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Again, he brings that and then says, oh, and then you'll be more effective in gathering Israel.

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He reminds us of another one of our of the things we've been tasked with.

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Do you know what I mean?

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I just love following his line of thought.

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It's so great.

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A quick thought to the parable of the vineyard.

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I'm like, you know, you come on board at like 80 years old and like you commit yourself to Jesus Christ in that moment and you live out the rest of your days to him.

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It's the same to him as somebody that was born under the covenant and sure living the gospel life.

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Why should we not all have the same reward?

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Like, sure.

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We can all be on the same path and some people are further along.

447
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,800
It just depends on what matters is what path you're on.

448
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:41,800
So absolutely.

449
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,400
I love that.

450
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In the coming day, Jesus Christ will return to the earth as the millennial Messiah.

451
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,600
He put a few more action items out here.

452
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,000
He asks us to rededicate our lives to Jesus Christ.

453
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How can we make discipleship a higher priority?

454
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,000
This week I asked.

455
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,600
So I think that question came right from the study.

456
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:00,600
It did.

457
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,800
I loved that that they added.

458
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,600
Yes, because it's kind of a different print.

459
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,400
I was like, that is so much more bite size.

460
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,000
How do I rededicate my life?

461
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,600
Sometimes those are big productions, but I just said, what can I do this week?

462
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,800
I could serve my neighbor.

463
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:13,800
I could share a gospel meme.

464
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,600
I could text somebody.

465
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,200
I could attend the temple.

466
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,200
Is that a good enough list?

467
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,000
It's great.

468
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:27,600
I know that I'm trying to make lists thing, but it's like little bite size actions can just demonstrate that being a disciple is our priority.

469
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:35,800
He asked us to call another action item, call upon you to help gather scattered Israel and to prepare the world for the second coming of the Lord.

470
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,200
What might that look like?

471
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,800
Could be ministering again, temple attendance and following through with your church calling.

472
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,200
Yes.

473
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
And then I'll add another one.

474
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,600
Megan had shared this with us.

475
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:54,600
We were talking about like the work that you do in your families is gathering Israel on both sides of the veil.

476
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:55,400
Absolutely.

477
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,400
Because like sometimes you have to see you have.

478
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,400
Yes, that was another key point.

479
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,000
Temple work itself, the work we do in our homes.

480
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,200
And yes, all of that keyboard hero stuff.

481
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,400
Getting names there and submitted there.

482
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,800
Other people can draw from.

483
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,800
So I work with the activity day girls.

484
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,000
And so ages 7 to 11, we have that whole age group.

485
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:23,600
And just starting with them of how they could help gather on both sides of the veil at for an age appropriate activity.

486
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:28,400
I asked them to come with a story of one of their ancestors and then we were going to go to the temple.

487
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,600
They they told me outside of it.

488
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,200
Yeah.

489
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,800
So next year, some of them will be able to go to it.

490
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:38,400
But just remembering that it's kind of like give said the little stream that last verse.

491
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,800
There's something all can give even little kids.

492
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:47,200
They can be helping to gather Israel by becoming a stronger attachment to their roots.

493
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,000
Right. They're the branches.

494
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
They're the leaves, but there can be a stronger attachment there.

495
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,200
So there's not like he said, it's never too early.

496
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,400
You've taken those little girls to the temple grounds.

497
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,000
I got gallstone, so I didn't go.

498
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,200
You had a hard week.

499
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,000
Oh my goodness.

500
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,200
She had quite the week.

501
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:05,600
As you can tell, we're a little bit late on the podcast, but there were things happening.

502
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,200
That was something that came to my mind.

503
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:13,000
I'm like, we may be speaking to people that haven't made temple covenants yet, but the blessings of the temple.

504
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,600
Like.

505
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,000
They're so far reaching and and I've found power.

506
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
I've had my kids on the temple grounds.

507
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000
There's power to.

508
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,200
Absolutely there that could be a good first step or something's holding you back from receiving your full endowment.

509
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:35,300
I just check yourself if you're feeling comfortable doing baptisms for the dead and finding yourself in the temple and doing that bit of service and gathering Israel.

510
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,200
Oh, that'd be so awesome.

511
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,700
It'd be so great because there's plenty of time.

512
00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:42,800
They don't make they don't want to make it like this fast paced situation.

513
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:50,400
And so you have time to do your baptisms for our ancestors.

514
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,400
What does it want to say the dead?

515
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,100
What do you say?

516
00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:54,400
What do they say?

517
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,900
That is no, they don't say that.

518
00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:56,700
What is it?

519
00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:59,100
They don't say about temple baptisms.

520
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:00,600
You know, they don't say who is dead.

521
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,600
Okay.

522
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,000
Because they're living just on the other side of the veil.

523
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,300
I don't know.

524
00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:07,200
Doesn't matter.

525
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,200
You do your baptisms.

526
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,700
You have plenty of time to have some reflective moments.

527
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:11,400
Absolutely.

528
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,500
That temple prayer rolls right there in the Baptist tree and there's just plenty of time to be quiet and reflective there.

529
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:22,600
So you could you could have a lot of blessings temple blessings depending on which stage of the temple you want to find yourself in.

530
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,500
Okay.

531
00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:28,400
The best is yet to come.

532
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,800
Yes, that is good.

533
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:38,200
I call upon you to talk of Christ testify of Christ have faith in Christ and rejoice in Christ come unto Christ and offer your whole soul to him.

534
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,800
That is a secret to a life of joy.

535
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,800
Those joy words just pop up so well.

536
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,100
And then he says the best is yet to come my dear brothers and sisters because the Savior is coming again.

537
00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:53,200
The best is yet to come because the Lord is hastening his work.

538
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,100
The best is yet to come as we fully turn our hearts and our lives to Jesus Christ.

539
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:03,300
And I did add a guided visualization for this talk.

540
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:13,100
It just helps you to ponder and to reflect and to ask the Holy Ghost to be there as you think of Christ actually coming again.

541
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:23,600
Like having that feel real in your heart and in your mind sort of a self-assessment to say am I demonstrating that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ?

542
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,500
Does that feel like that?

543
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:27,900
OK, we'll close with the prophets words.

544
00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:31,000
He said, I bear my solemn witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

545
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,100
I am his disciple.

546
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:35,000
I am honored to be his servant at his second coming.

547
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,400
The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

548
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,000
That day will be filled with joy for the righteous through the power of the sacred priesthood keys.

549
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,800
I hold I declare this truth to you and to all the world and he closes in the name of our Savior.

550
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,200
And that was a good little talk.

551
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,300
So good.

552
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:55,700
Hope you guys enjoy studying it and we'll catch you on the next one.

553
00:32:55,700 --> 00:33:14,000
See you next time.