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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget about the upcoming 2022 LDS Film Festival<\/a>, which will run 2-5 March at the SCERA Theater in Orem, Utah.\u00a0 The Interpreter Foundation\u2019s new docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em>, will receive its premiere there, on the evening of Friday, 4 March, and tickets are now available<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Three new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, all of them from the regular weekly Interpreter Radio Show:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n The 16 January 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show has been freed from commercial interruptions, archived, and made freely accessible for your delectation and delight.\u00a0 This episode featured Bruce Webster and Mike Parker, who discussed Book of Mormon geography during its first hour. The second portion of the show was devoted to a conversation about the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #9 (Genesis 24\u201327). The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 January 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n Steve Densley, Matthew Bowen, and Mark Johnson were featured on the 23 January 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show.\u00a0 In this installment, the three amigos discuss Matt Bowen\u2019s recent Interpreter<\/em> journal article on Nephi\u2019s wordplay describing the Abrahamic covenant. The second hour of the program is a roundtable discussion of the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #10 (Genesis 28\u201333).\u00a0 If you\u2019re in Salt Lake County, you can listen to the Interpreter Radio Show every single week of the year, on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 Wherever<\/em> you are, though, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0 And, happily, since previous programs, cleansed of commercial and other breaks, are archived and made available to you at no charge, you can listen to them anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 January 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n The 30 January 2022 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show was led by Terry Hutchinson and Martin Tanner. In this episode, they interviewed Ben Spackman<\/a>, discussing with him how to understand the background of the Old Testament and how to improve individual scripture study. The second portion of the show was a roundtable devoted to the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #11 (Genesis 37\u201341).\u00a0 These two rich hours are now available at your convenience and at no charge.\u00a0 The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, if you live in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t, you can still listen to it live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I would like to express my gratitude to all of those who volunteer to host the Interpreter Radio Show, and particularly to Martin Tanner, who not only serves as a host but also coordinates the overall effort and the volunteers.\u00a0 I\u2019m also grateful to Bob Lavender, of LDS Agents<\/a>, who sponsors the weekly program.\u00a0 And we\u2019re about to undertake some specific measures to improve the audio quality of the live program (and, derivatively, of its archived recordings), which has often been less than optimal.\u00a0 Onward and upward!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We spent much of the early part of today out of Lahaina, watching whales in the channel between Maui and Lanai.\u00a0 There were lots and lots of them.\u00a0 (I\u2019m still watching them spout from where I currently sit, back on land.)\u00a0 Mostly, they were mothers and babies, most often accompanied by what the naturalist aboard our boat repeatedly called their \u201cmale escorts\u201d or the moms\u2019 \u201cMaui boyfriends.\u201d\u00a0 We saw quite a bit of everything, including the usual cruising while spouting, both mothers and babies gently floating while seemingly asleep, loud pectoral fin slapping (\u201cpec slapping\u201d), and even, in the distance, some full breaches \u2014 although, alas, each time that happened I was looking somewhere else.\u00a0 Probably the most interesting thing, which lasted something on the order of five minutes, was when a trio of mother, calf, and \u201cmale escort\u201d took an interest in our boat and swam at a very shallow depth nearby us on both the port and starboard sides and, twice, right under us.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Afterwards, we had a really good lunch \u2014 our serious meal for the day \u2014 at the Lahaina Fish Company<\/a>, on Front Street in Lahaina.\u00a0 The service was exceptionally friendly, as well; I wish I could remember the server\u2019s name\u00a0 And the view was excellent, right on the water.\u00a0 We could see spouting whales from where we sat, and a large sea turtle swam by us at a distance of about fifteen or twenty feet.\u00a0 Mostly, we\u2019ve eaten simply here, in our condo.\u00a0 But the other restaurant that I can recommend from this stay here in western Maui is Leilani\u2019s on the Beach, at Whalers Village<\/a> in Kaanapali, which also has a good sea view (and we were there at sunset).\u00a0 We had fresh line-caught island fish at both places, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.\u00a0 At the Lahaina Fish Company, we decided to share a dessert \u2014 the mana pie (something like a pecan pie, but with macadamia nuts instead of pecans) and local ice cream \u2014 and it was well worth it.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I offer these recommendations just in case somebody out there is thinking of visiting Maui in the foreseeable future \u2014 and not merely because my travelogues drive a few of my anonymous critics absolutely nuts, obliging them to send me multiple obscene and insulting emails.\u00a0 Of course, my general experience with restaurant recommendations is that, as soon as I make them, the chef is replaced by some cook who\u2019s just been discharged by the Marines.\u00a0 Or something of that sort.\u00a0 So, as stock pickers and investment fund prospectuses like to say, past experience is not necessarily a reliable guide to future success.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Many years ago, I ran across a story in a magazine that, its author claimed, really happened.\u00a0 And I believe him, since I think I\u2019ve met the very librarian involved.\u00a0 He was, he wrote, doing research on St. David, the patron saint of Wales.\u00a0 But he couldn\u2019t find everything he was looking for.\u00a0 So he went to the library\u2019s reference desk and explained his difficulty.\u00a0 She listened attentively and then remarked, \u201cWow.\u00a0 I knew that they were intelligent, but I didn\u2019t know that they had their own religion<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A longtime faculty colleague of mine (for whatever it may be worth, the holder of a doctorate from a very elite eastern American university) has an analogous story to tell.\u00a0 He was researching the literary figure of Don Giovanni or Don Juan.\u00a0 In this case, too, he went to a reference librarian, seeking help to find more bibliographical resources.\u00a0 With a look of patient condescension, the reference librarian advised him that he should always use full<\/em> names in his library sources, thus:\u00a0 Donald<\/em> Giovanni or Donald<\/em> Juan.\u00a0 Sheesh!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Posted from Kaaanapali, Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 Don\u2019t forget about the upcoming 2022 LDS Film Festival, which will run 2-5 March at the SCERA Theater in Orem, Utah.\u00a0 The Interpreter Foundation\u2019s new docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, will receive its premiere there, on the evening of Friday, 4 March, and tickets are now available. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21664,56,259,5691,114,4877,1968,18631,27858,27861,18568,27870,21617,27855,19543,18752,27873,5688,21643,21646,27849,27864,27867,27852,921,6384,21713],"class_list":["post-94077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-lavender","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-witnesses","tag-eight-witnesses","tag-interpreter-foundation","tag-interpreter-radio","tag-interpreter-radio-show","tag-lahaina","tag-lahaina-fish-co","tag-lahaina-fish-company","tag-lanai","tag-lds-agents","tag-lds-film-festival","tag-leilanis-on-the-beach","tag-martin-tanner","tag-maui","tag-robert-lavender","tag-three-witnesses","tag-undaunted","tag-undaunted-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon","tag-whale","tag-whale-watching","tag-whalers-village","tag-whales","tag-witnesses","tag-witnesses-film","tag-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon"],"yoast_head":"\n