Hank Smith:                      00:04                   Hello everyone, welcome to followHIM Favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week’s lesson. John, we are in Moses chapter seven this week. It’s all about Enoch, and I know you have a great story for us.

John Bytheway:               00:17                   It speaks of Zion. You ask anybody, I think most of us know Zion means of one heart, of one mind. It’s not just a place, not just a cause, we went through all those last year. I was at a youth conference once, I think it was in Florida, there was some contention. Wards are composed of just people doing their best. There were some problems, some friend groups, stuff like that. This girl got up in testimony meeting and she just said the coolest thing. She said, you guys, we’ve been talking about Zion in seminary and it sounds to me like we’re supposed to be friends. With a little bit of emotion. The whole room, the whole chapel changed. One after another these kids got up and apologized if they’d ever offended other kids that were there. It was one of the most beautiful meetings I ever remembered because it happened one after another after another.

                                           01:12                   I just thought if the adversary’s going to get us, it might not be from the outside in, it might be from the inside out. Get us gossiping about each other and judging each other harshly and things like that. This girl gets up there and says that, and the Spirit of the Lord entered the room. It’s one of those times in my life when I can say, that was a Zion feeling from head to toe. I’ll never forget it. If you need to get up and apologize for something that happened at Ward basketball, you could do that too.

Hank Smith:                      01:44                   Well, John, think about it. If every young person understood, and every older person too, but every young person understood their ability to create unity in their quorum, in their class, in their ward, in their stake, it’s within their grasp, but just like it was for that girl, it said, let’s be of one heart. Let’s be of one mind.

John Bytheway:               02:03                   Yeah, and it worked. Hank, I think about, is it section 38? Be one and if you are not one, you are not mine and the alternatives of not being his are really bad. So let’s try to be of one heart and of one mind, and that just means we repent and we take people where they’re at.

Hank Smith:                      02:24                   God put us on the same team for a reason. Let’s play like we’re on the same team. Our friend Kirby Heyborne, he likes to say, I got your back. I got your back. I think we can do that for our, in our wards, in our classes, in our quorums. I got your back one whole one night. Sounds to me like we’re supposed to be friends. I love it. We hope you’ll join us on our full podcast. It’s called followHIM. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We’re with Danny Ricks this week out of BYU Idaho Religion Department and you are going to love him. Talk about energy and enthusiasm. That is contagious. That guy has it. And then come back here next week and we’ll do another followHIM Favorites.