Okay, you're going to love this sections section 46 is a favored section of the entire Doctrine of Covenant. So, this is a really awesome lesson. Catch you up. We're in Kirtland, Ohio. Uh that's the new headquarters of the church. Let's see the what's the date? March? January, Joseph got there and he's one of the first ones. And now everybody's kind of arriving into Kirtland, Ohio. This is a really young church. Like everybody is learning and figuring this out. And there's something I'm just actually realizing right now that I love about the messiness of this and everyone trying to like work through and and figure things out is how God let them go through that, right? like he let them experience the messiness of it. He let them ask their questions. He let them figure things out. He let them make mistakes. Like I just think that there's something really neat about looking back in time and seeing that God allowed that and that giving you grace in your own life to say like, "Oh, he is allowing me to move through and figure out my own messiness." Also, like some of the decisions they made may had consequences they didn't want, may not have been the best, quickest route or or whatever. But I just it's just neat that you know God's in charge when you're reading the scriptures and yet you're watching him allow them to make mistakes. It just gives you a new idea of how God thinks about mistakes and messiness. Well, and it's interesting because not only watching God allow them to make mistakes and figure it out, but you're getting God's responses as well. And when I was reading, that's something that was really important to me is realizing, oh, this was a really messy and figure it out time. And God's response was kind. And I think that's something really a powerful lesson on his grace that Yeah. That's the same. God's response to figuring it out is kindness. Is there correction? Yeah, there is correction, but it's so kind. Yeah, I think today's lesson and next week's lesson also just kind of lean to that that idea. So, uh uh Okay, so let's jump to verse 46. Oh, this grace, good reminder, you guys. If you were with us last week before like that was a good Well, because it's actually really fun. We have one fun thing to tell you about and it's these bracelets. Maybe you heard us talk about them before. Um it's these thin black silicone bracelets. They say ask God on them. We are going to do something in the summertime. 12 weeks, 12 mini lessons. They'll be part of the bigger lesson, right? But 12 mini lessons on prayer just to we want we're calling it the summer of prayer. And this is something that you might want to do in your families. Get everybody one of these. And once a week on Sunday after church, you have a lesson. Or maybe you're the grandma and you want to send out that lesson to all the grandkids one on Monday of every single week just like with your own little thought on prayer or just something to think about to just really um just be just well it's one of your goals right this year is just to just improve your prayer life. Yeah. Right. And it's a gift and and to embrace that gift of of prayer life. And I just had the best time because I just got my bracelet. David gave me my bracelet early before you guys. Sorry. And I already lost it. I didn't lose it. I gave it because I had the most tender conversation with someone and they asked me to pray for something about them and I said, "No, I will pray, but like you should pray for it, too." And they said, "But I trust your prayers more." And I said, "Well, don't worry. I trust yours and if you ever doubt and then I just gave them a bracelet for a little reminder and I was like, how cute is it to just be praying with each other, not for each other, but with each other?" And I think that's just like sometimes you need a reminder that you're in it together. I like the reminder of if you're scared, like I want my kids to wear this and like if you're scared, ask God for help. If you're worried, ask God. If you feel lonely, ask God. That just it's always just a reminder that whatever it is you need. So these are now available. The link will be in the newsletter or you can just go to goodnewsbrandco.com and like put in the search bar ask God or go to the two wear section. You'll see them in there. uh they're available now because you want to get them before summer starts and maybe you want to hand these out at youth conference or girls camp or any other of the camps that that you're doing and have a lesson on the words come from the Joseph Smith story. So come you know you might come back to that. Okay 46 you there everyone? Okay. The the circumstance here, remember that's kind of the our whole year thing is what what was the prayer, what was the need, what was the the situation um for them. There was a story um where they're in this church meeting and there's people in there who pretended to be interested in church, interested in religion, and then halfway through the meeting during when a signal was given, they attacked the speakers. And it was like a it was all a setup. This kind of crazy thing that like which really does feel insane. Like it's like, wait a minute. I know. Um, at this point, if Joseph Smith was making it all up is when he should have quit, you know, like if it was all just a ruse, he should have just said, I can't do this anymore. Starting a church. This isn't my business. I can't do this. And so they started to talk with each other about like, well then we should kick everybody. If you're not a member of the church, you can't come to the meetings. Which does make sense in this context. Yeah. like someone like we did like we're going to get attacked, you know, and it's a knee-jerk reaction to say, well, let's just stop that from ever happening like it's not even worth the risk or what if our kids had been in the way and you know there's just all these things which you can relate to that they also remember some of them in the conversation was like well the Book of Mormon says not to cast anyone out of your meetings. So I don't think that's what the Lord wants us to do. So they come to Joseph ask, "Will you ask the Lord for a revelation and some direction on this for us?" And um if you if you have the journal from the app that you downloaded, there's this section called the rules of church. And that's what we like to call the first couple verses here. It's like what are the rules of church that the Lord gives in verse one for your profit and for your learning. I love that the ing and learning. Like this is an ongoing progressing. We're learning how to be the church right now. Okay. Rule number one is found in verse two and it's the very last line. It says all meetings are to be directed and guided by the Holy Spirit. Next week we'll talk a lot about we might replace that word all meetings with all our lives, right? O to be directed and guided by the Holy Spirit. That is rule number one. I love it in contrast to what it says at the beginning of that word that verse notwithstanding those things which are written. So sometimes the the things that we have we have things written down like this is the policy this is the pattern. This is the way that things go. Sometimes we have those. And I love that the Lord says, "Notwithstanding whatever the rule book says, the number one trumped rule is do all things, all meetings directed and guided by the Holy Spirit." That is going to be rule number one of church. Let the Holy Spirit guide when we should sing, when we should pray, when we should change things, when when we should adapt. It's way easier to have somebody just say, "Give me the guidelines for every single situation." Yeah. And I appreciate somebody's um fervor of soul of wanting to do things exactly right, but the Lord is giving them something that's a little bit more difficult, but it's what makes uh living the gospel actually living being alive, right? It's like there's no set. It's just kind of exciting. Yeah. Right. And um a little nerve-wracking, but in a thrilling way that it's like, okay, I'm a little nervous to see how this is going to go, but also I think there's something really beautiful in the confidence that he places in us. Yeah, me too. That's awesome. Okay, then rule number two of church is never cast anyone out of your public meetings. And I just want you to notice that in verse three it says never to cast anyone out. Verse four at the beginning not to cast anyone. Verse 5 not to cast anyone out. Verse six at the very end you shall not cast them out. If you look in those verses and as you read them, I think you're going to find things like this. Verse four, it's like don't cast anyone out in the sacrament meetings. And if they've trespassed, don't let them partake of the sacrament until they make reconciliation. I we were just um on a trip and we went to a mass, you know, while we were on that trip. And I thought it was interesting in the mass that they just said, "You are we are so happy that you are here. If you are not um uh a person of Catholic faith, please don't take the Eucharist. Don't take the take the sacrament." And I was like, "Awesome." I wasn't offended by that. I was like, there is some dignity that is, you know, to be kept. And so, but it seems like and in the case where the people attacked, I think that's a person that you would want to escort out of the room, right? Like you you probably should cast them out of of the meeting. Um, and there are going to be, you know, cases for that, but they're going to be extreme because it seems like the Lord is emphasizing here four different times. Don't cast anyone out of your meetings. Let them be a part of it. Let them hear the good news spoken. Let them be in a place where they can feel the love of God. Let them be in a place where they can pray. Let them be in a place where healing could occur. And it just seems like yes, there are two sides to every situation and different ways that you can do it. But if you're going to lean one way, the Lord says we're going to lean into never casting anyone out. And it's a message that has been his since the beginning of welcome people in and go find them. It reminds me of the parable in Luke of the party then the invitations and oh go find the people that are in the margins and go find the people on the outside and go find the people that and like all over the place invite as many people. He told his servant go get as many people as you can and bring them to the party so that we can celebrate together. And I think that to me is church. That is what I want church to feel like. I want to bring as many people as I possibly can to the table. I want everyone to experience what he has to offer us there. And I think that that is such a beautiful like when I was reading I was like okay don't cast anyone out. And then I paused and I was like wait what does that look like in my church life today? And I started thinking about like yeah like maybe it's being kinder to people sitting by new people on my church bench and talking to more people in Relief Society or whatever. And then I paused and I was like, you know what? Also, I think that maybe that is step one. Don't cast people out. But I think from the very beginning it has also been bring as many people in as you possibly can. Go out and find them. Go out and get them. This is not a church of casting out. This is a church full of outcasts. That's who should be welcome here. It's the opposite of that. And I think it's powerful to realize like that is where he wants to sit. Yeah. That's interesting that you say that because you know we say like okay the rule of church is don't cast anyone out as if there's a bouncer there or something like that and there's not ever going to be a bouncer right there's never not ever going to be a strong man who's throwing people out and so I love that you were consider and kind of asking that question to yourself what might it look like to cast somebody out right now like obviously I'm never going to physically like grab someone by the neck and throw them out I mean I could but like I'm not going to like I'm physically able from what I I just told you like David's trying to make us everyone. David's really strong. In the comments, tell David he's strong. You need some compliment, right? But what is it? What is it about my behavior? What is it about what I'm not doing? What is it about the things that I'm saying? Yeah. That might make someone feel like I don't want to be there. For sure. And and I think that's like that's good to think about like that I am conscious of that as I gather. Yeah. you know um that okay as part of this I think maybe in response to this as part of this too the whole context of this this section and next time's chapters are all about not being deceived and so the Lord's going to emphasize like the spirit and the trickiness of navigating situations and how much we need the spirit for that we will talk more about that in next week's chapters but but this idea of where he starts talking about giving spiritual gifts. Um, starts in verse 7. I think it's under the the context of not being deceived. The spiritual gifts are going to help us navigate that life. But I like connecting it to what we just taught, which is don't cast anyone out because if you did, you would also accidentally cast out the gifts that they have. For sure. And if you did that, you would be missing um a characteristic of the heart of God. You would be missing some manifestation of his personality because I believe that each of the gifts are that that it's almost like God's personality is this diamond and and all of the facets on it. Is that what you call those? The cuts. Yeah. Okay. I think that might be true. Right. that kind of make it sparkle and, you know, bedazzle or whatever. It's probably not the verb that I would have wanted to choose today, but I did. Okay. No problem. Right. All those little cuts on it, all like different facets, different kind of ways that the light is reflected, right? And I just feel like each of the spiritual gifts that God has given to us reflect his life and his light and his love and his personality in different ways. And if I cast someone out of my meeting, then then I've also accidentally taken away that aspect of of who he is. Well, and I think that's one of the most beautiful lines. And I saw Lay for the first time the other day. And what you guys? I know. Can you believe that? Your first time. Okay. I know. Okay. I know. You have gone to New York and seen the most obscure. I'm late. I'm late, but I did see it. So, at least I'm happy to recover. I'm happy to recover. And that line lives in my head at the very end that just says to love another is to see the face of God. And I think that is the lesson that you will see through section 46 through and through. that he's going to be talking about gifts that are given to humans, but as you read them, you you just can't even help but think like that is the character of God. God did his best work with people and the best parts of people are God. You'll see it and you'll see his characteristics and everyone you meet and I love so much that of course he doesn't want to cast anyone out of his church because every single person we meet introduces us to who he is. So awesome. So here's some things I think we learn about spiritual gifts from section 46 uh verse 7 uh who talking about God who giveth liberally. That's something I'd mark in in 7 when we're talking about God being a giftgiver. Let's remember that he is a liberal giftgiver. So the line right before that ask of God who gives liberally and and this might come up somewhere else later but spiritual gifts are are the great compensation for living in a fallen world from him. And I'm just thinking about like if I'm facing a particular situation and a spiritual gift would help compensate and strengthen and give me wisdom or whatever it is in that situation. Ask for it. ask for that spiritual gift to be able to navigate whatever it is that you are facing. And and I'm actually just thinking to myself right now, the answer might be someone else in your life who has that gift. God might give you that spiritual gift and or he might bring someone into your life or help you discover or uncover that gift that's in somebody else that you know that could help. But however he does it, he's going to, we find out in verse 7, to do it liberally. The second thing we learn in verse 8 is that he gives us permission to seek them earnestly. And not just any of the gifts. Check out what it says in verse 8. Seek ye earnestly the best gifts that he just says, don't hold back on on your list. You know, like sometimes we might tell our kids to hold back a little bit on their on their Christmas list, you know, because we want to manage some expectations here. And the Lord is managing our expectations and saying, "I'm giving you permission to seek earnestly like with with all your heart and soul for the very best gifts that I have." I just love knowing that about him. Well, and there to me from like I I like drew an arrow from like verse 7 to verse 9 in my scriptures and I just wrote like an abundant mindset. That is something I feel like often I am missing in my relationship with God is sometimes I forget that he is abundant. He can do far more than I realize he can do. And I think so often maybe because I'm afraid, maybe I'm so scared of disappointment, I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe I need to dig a little deeper to figure that out. But there's something in me that when I pray and when I think and when I hope it is with a scarcity mindset that I'm like, okay, like if you have a little bit of extra, give me that. But like, oh, they're already getting so much, so there's probably not enough room for me. Or if I ask for that, what about the people that need it more than me? And this verses 7 through9 is evidence clear as day to me that we do not believe in a scarce God. We believe in a God who is abundant. And that is evident in all of scriptures and any miracle you see Jesus perform that is evident in the stories of his life that is evident that he is an abundant God. And I think it's really important to realize I think when we look at ourselves and especially when it comes to something like gifts it's really easy for us to fall into a scarcity mindset and say oh no like everyone else is doing really good but that's probably not for me. I shouldn't ask for more right now. I don't need it as much as other people need it. And I love that he is saying here clear as day to every single person. I'm not going to run out of goodness. Yeah. I'm not going to run out of opportunities to bless you. You actually don't need to feel like bad for asking for more because he is capable of doing that. And it I remember one day I was just praying was this past year and I um I wanted to like start praying for something that I wanted and then I felt bad and I was like actually and I was like saying this out loud in my prayer. I was like actually God never mind. Like I get it. like I don't need that. Like that's just kind of a want. And I like ended my prayer and I just heard the spirit so quickly say to me, "Far more often when you get up off of your knees, I was hoping you would ask for more than thinking you were asking too much." And I think that he wants to give. Yeah. It's just true. He wants to give. He wants to help you. Yeah. Permission is given here. Okay. Another thing that we learn verse 9 and 12 together is it is for the benefit of his children. This line in particular in 9 that all may be benefited that seek or that ask of me. Um verse 12 to some is given one gift and to some is given another gift that all may be profited thereby. There's just something about that right that is like this remember this is he says earlier remember the reason for which the gifts are given and they are to benefit each other there's something so sweet about God scattering the spiritual gifts among us right so that we in order to understand his character and heart we have to gather together and we have to help each other out and I think there's something about the list of gifts if you notice in the list list of gifts There are some like let me show you some like combos of them. There is the gift of some are given the gift to know that's in verse 13 that Jesus Christ is the son of God and was crucified for the sins of the world. In 14 to others is given the gift to believe their words. And do you see how those two people kind of need each other that that God is giving different gifts and they are complimentary gifts to each other. Some others are wisdom and knowledge. Um, one of the gifts is to heal and one of them is to be healed. One of the gifts is to speak in tongues and another is the interpretation of tongues. I think God's not listing the only gifts that there are. I think the ones he's picking are really interesting because I think they're teaching us that the gifts are given so that we benefit each other, right? That just like it's almost like you only have half the gift and I have half the gift and we have to come together to really experience it. And I I think that is something the Lord is teaching when he's giving some examples of what those gifts are. And I think sometimes I really love what you said earlier about how maybe sometimes when you're praying the answer when you say I need this gift might come through another person. And I think sometimes that makes us hesitant because it's easy for us to get in comparison mindset and be like wait I needed that. And what if you changed that to I need you. I don't need that gift. I need you. I need your help. I need you to show up in my life. I need to be willing to say, I cannot do this on my own. And I think that is how God built his neighborhood on earth is full of people who need each other. Yeah. And how lucky that we're all here together, right? That's so cool. That's so cool. Okay. The next thing I think that we learned that we want to talk about is is this idea. Go back to 11. That Oh, wow. I heard you just ripped your scripture, Grace. I really loved this. Showing a lot of love. take it, put it in your pocket, carry it around. Well, that's how good that's how good this section is, right? Um, for all have not every gift unto them, for there are many gifts, and to every man and woman and child is given a gift by the spirit of God. So, two things there. Everyone gets a gift, but there are many gifts. And I love that you get this big long list of them there. But don't stop there because the Lord is saying that before he starts listening. There are many gifts. And listen to some of the words in 15. There are differences. There are conditions. Verse 16, diversities. There are manifestations. There's plural. All those are plurals. Like there's so many different manifestations of the heart and the goodness of of God here. And everyone gets one. They're personal. They're not random. And each of them are portraits of how God shows up personally for each of us. And so he says they're given to be shared and they're given in a way that leads people to trust God and love God and glorify God even more. So the tipin that we have for this week is um the other ones that you want to put in are just this these spots to list all of the gifts. But what you're going to notice on it is that there is a spot on there to list your personal gift, what your gift is on the teen one and the kid one. And I just think this would be an awesome um thing to talk about after church on the Sunday when we talk about that about spiritual gifts and and to go through and talk about what spiritual gifts do you have? Which ones do you notice in each other? If you live in a family, that would be awesome. If you're having class with people who know each other well, that might be nice too to say like in fact I remember being in a class one time where we wrote our name on the top of a piece of paper and we passed it around and when it got to like you you would see David at the top and you wrote down what gift you noticed in me and we passed that around and you could do that in a class and you could do that in family. You could do it with close friends. You could open your patriarchal blessing. Um you could ask your parents. You ask the people who know you well, what spiritual gifts do you notice in me? And the reason I love the adult one so much is we listed some gifts that aren't listed in section 46 that are other gifts that you might consider like the gift of hope or the gift of hospitality or the gift of devotion or the gift of creativity or the gift of contentment or the gift to weep. Um there are many gifts and to each one of us are given one. And I love this idea of trying to see in each other and see in ourselves the gifts that God has given. I So these are going these are going to be awesome. And remember, they all have a blank back. So there's so much that could be written on those. Yeah. 100%. And I think it's really beautiful to me that this section begins with like kind of like the rules of church and the gifts are included in that because I think if God were to say what he hopes church would feel like, I think he would say heaven. And I think that these gifts of the spirit are one of the things that fuel heaven, that make us fill heaven on earth. And I a couple years ago went to Argentina on a humanitarian trip. And I was in charge of like 19 teenagers while we were there. And when I was on the plane over, I was just like kind of thinking like, what should I do on this trip? Like what how can I make it good? And for some reason, the only thing I could think of was compliments. And I was like, "Okay, like I'm just going to make a goal that like within like the first 48 hours, I'm going to talk to every single kid on the trip and I'm going to find something that I could give them like a genuine compliment about." And I like went through and after like after like I started like getting going, it was like one of the easiest things I've ever done in my entire life. And I'd be really intentional about my conversations. It changed the way I spoke to them because I was trying to like discover more about their heart and their soul rather than just being like, "Oh, like you look really great today. Like I'm loving your coat or whatever." Yeah. And I started being intentional in my conversations. I started noticing. I started looking. I started being more observant. And then I started telling them these compliments. And I am not kidding. I don't know if I've ever experienced heaven on earth more than in Argentina with those kids. I love those kids like they are my own. Like they are my favorite people on earth. I will support them till the day that I die. I feel like I truly experienced heaven with them. And I think that that is a really powerful lesson to me about who I'm going to church with and how I treat them and the people around me. And that I think he wants us to experience heaven on earth. And I think these gifts are a way of allowing us to help each other experience that. And I just think what a cool opportunity and like a little fake excuse to be like, "Oh, let me notice some gifts in people this week. Let me write notes. Let me give compliments." I think that'd be a really cool lesson to go through and just like talk about these are the gifts that I've seen in you. This is how I've seen you respond to things. This is maybe if you're like a mom or a dad, you want to write notes or if you just like I just think there's something really beautiful in church is about experiencing a glimpse of heaven. And I think noticing these gifts in each other is one of the most powerful ways to bring heaven here. So cool. That's so cool. And I and I was just noticing as I was going through the our little um read it live it that we have where there's just a verse from each of the day from that reading of that day and then a little like thing that you can you know think about four of them come from section 46 for the week. So I love that if you're using these in the morning just at breakfast time to read this little thing you're just thinking about it all week long. So I love that this week in particular had smaller amounts of sections. so that you know we could maybe focus on it a little bit more which would be great. I love this one, by the way, in here where it says, "To some was given the gift of faith. To some the gift of healing, to some the gift of miracles, knowledge, or to prophesy. They're all different, but one thing is the same. They are all gifts of love from God. Say thank you." And and we see that in verse 26 that all these gifts come from God for the benefit of the children of God. He is acting as a father when he is a giftgiver, right? It's one of the of the ways that we see his fatherly heart to say, "I want to help you through the your experiences in this world. I want you to feel heaven down there. You're away from home. You're you're pilgrims and strangers, you know, um the book of uh Hebrews says down there, and I want to give you a glimpse of home and and a glimpse of heaven and and and the spiritual gifts are for that." So he says, "Seek for them earnestly. Look for them earnestly. Point them out earnestly seems to be what the call of this what of this section is. He's like, "Yeah, listen. We're talking about the problems that can happen in church at the beginning." That is true. And sometimes there are, but let's talk about just the great benefit of gathering together as a community of faith with the spiritual gifts in tow and and you know just the beauty of of what that um what that looks like. Um, remember that story? I think I may have told it on here before of um a I was listening to this man who was a a new pastor in this little town in southern United States and he went to a baptismal service and they did it at the lake and so they're there on the beach and the people are getting baptized and joining their little church and then they come up onto the beach and there's a bonfire and they're all standing around it get warm getting warmed up and then the leader of of um of that little church takes a minute and talking to the new converts, he starts going around introducing to other, you know, other people to them. And and as the people go around the circle, oh, sorry, introducing themselves. As they go around the circle introducing themselves, um, one person would say, he said something like this, "My name is Susan. If your kids ever need help with their algebra homework, call me. My name is Fred. If you ever your car ever breaks down, you call me. My name is so and so. If ever you're needing some help with conflict resolution, you call me. And they went around and they just expressed what gift it is they had to offer, whether it was physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. And he said, I sat there and I watched that. And when the circle kind of dispersed, there was like kind of the guy there who was putting the fire out. And he just says, uh, do you know what we call this around these parts? We call this church. This is what it looks like to take care of each other, to walk each other home. PS, have you heard, speaking of that line, Eminis, new song? No, you guys, our friend Emma is a songwriter. Go look her up. She's got this really rad jazzy Christian vibe. And she wrote this song called Walking Each Other Home. We will listen to it right after. I'll also put on the dailies. I will put that for the song for the dailies because it is it is so it is so good. Um verse 32 is where I was getting us to. He says, "And you must give thanks unto God in the spirit for whatsoever blessing you are blessed with because whatever it is will be a blessing. And when we realize it in its true living color, it will cause us to praise and to thank and to give thanks. When we when we realize it and and we get to use that gift to bless and benefit and profit each other." So cool. So cool. And I feel like such an interesting you're gonna see such an interesting turnaround in section 47 because we're gonna get the story of John Whitmer and he is asked to do like the um like the history like the record keeping. Is that really why did I want to call it record keeping? Is that okay? Okay. Good. I was giving him an official title and he didn't even want to and he said no. And he's like no no no no no no. And finally, um, they get this revelation and which is so cute that he's just like he gets the revelation from God and he's like, "Okay, yeah, I'm going to do it." But what I think is the most beautiful part of that section to me is that it really is a moment that you're like, "Wait, he is called of God for this and he is going to be lifted up and he's going to be given gifts and he's going to have the opportunity to do this." But I think it's so interesting that after this whole entire section about all these unique gifts, you get the individual story of someone Yeah. who was given one and his gift. Oh yeah. And maybe someone who is a little bit disappointed in what his gift is. When we look at the gifts, some of them might feel a little bit like, oh, flashier or I wish I had that one. Or they're a little bit more loud. They're a little bit more noticeable. They're a little bit more appreciated by our society in general. Yeah. And being the historian, you know, is sort of like the, you know, Yeah. I want to be a part of the story. I don't want to have to write it down. Exactly. Right. where and and and sometimes we might think that about our own spiritual gifts or or our callings where we're just like, "Ah, that one's that one just that's not the one I I I'm not really stoked about it. I want to say no." Right? And even like a little bit more of a behind thescenes gift that's like, "Oh, that's not really going to be like seen by very many people." But what I think is really cool is that um it got its whole section in scripture that we're still reading hundreds of years later. So, yeah. And yesterday I started I just started down this trail and I you haven't um finished it yet just trying to find out what things did Whitmer write down that we wouldn't have in our collection of stories that we wouldn't have what stories of God do we know because you know he did that and I just don't think he knows the benefit of that opportunity and and that gift and that responsibility that he was that he was given. Well, and I love that something that he might have thought was over overlooked or like not as important, God thought was worthy of scripture. Yeah. And I think that's like an important lesson that you might see it a little differently than God does. And if maybe you're feeling a little bit disappointed or a little bit dissatisfied with where you feel like you're at and the gifts that you feel like you have, maybe ask God what he thinks about those gifts because I would say that he probably thinks they're worthy of sacredness. So cool. Let's say one thing about section 48. It feels like sort of a practical section also like 47 does, but all these people are coming in from from New York, from the coast area, all into Ohio. They're all heeding that call from the Lord to come. So, you can imagine logistically how tough this is to find land for people, to find, you know. Yeah. Like what a great benefit it's going to be to have all these people come in. But logistically, it's going to be really hard. And so this is in particular to Edward Partridge who is the bishop, right? Addressing him who's in charge of like um remember that consecration of properties and and trying to figure out all these things. But there's just two things in here that I that I think would be so awesome to point out. One is verse two. I love this line so much. In as much as you have, you shall impart. I took away the word lands because I think we can just fill in our own blank there. In as much as you have, you shall impart it to the other people who are coming. I love that God says that's rule number three of what it looks like to be church is that we take care of each other. Um and and then one other thing, verse six, when he starts talking about the lands that they give and and you will begin to be gathered in your families, every man according to his family, this line, according to his circumstances. And I just love that we have a God in heaven who is aware of our individual circumstances. All these people are coming in, but they're not they're not cookie cutter. Everybody's different. Everybody has different circumstances. And I want and and if we can, can we connect that 486 and cross reference it back to a verse in in section 46 where it just says this in verse 15. To some is given by the Holy Ghost to know the differences of administration. Right? As it will be pleasing unto the same Lord according as the Lord will suiting his mercies according to the conditions of the children of men that to some is going to be given the spiritual gift of how to administer the gifts of the atonement of Christ to individual people to suit it according I would I love that word suit in English used here because it's also we also talk about tailoring custom fitting something for someone. And and I just I think it's beautiful that we have a God who understands the differences in our life, the conditions of our life, and he's going to suit his mercies according to those conditions. Beautiful. And and we're we're going to see that. We're going to we're going to notice that. And I think it's going to be a a a beautiful lesson that we'll learn about the Lord in in the scriptures as we study him, but more importantly as we see them in our own lives. Watch him suit, you know, them to each of us. They're not random. Again, they're portraits of how God shows up personally for each person in their life according to their conditions. So, so good. Okay, next week's kind of a to be continued. It's more kind of along these along these same lines, but it's going to be so good. We'll see you then.