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Today in class we talked about Jesus Christ and His resurrection. We talked about a lot of cool parts of the story straight from the scriptures. We read in John chapter 20. Some of my favorite scriptures in all of holy writ are found within this chapter. They are the verses where Jesus Christ speaks to Mary Magdalene after he is risen from the dead. We learned that the original translation indicated that Jesus meant "hold on to me not" or "let go of me." Usually, we read this in English and think that Mary has not yet touched him. When we read the JST version, we see that this scripture is not implying that Mary has not yet touch him. I had never thought of these verses in this way. When I learn new things when reading the scriptures, I feel so inspired. I have read these stories so many times and yet I still have the opportunity to learn each time I open the scriptures. We talked about how special it is that Christ's first resurrected word's were to a woman. That woman, Mary Magdalene, was then told to go tell the other apostles about his resurrection. This was interesting for this time because a woman's voice was not even allowed to be used to testify in court. I hope that through your own personal scripture study you can learn to find new things. I am happy I am able to share my thoughts with you. This was a really special class to end the semester on!