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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

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0:00.0

Hello my friends welcome to follow him favorites this year we're going to share a single story from each week's lesson

0:07.6

John we are in second if I one and two today and you've told me you have a great story so where are we going to go? I do it's not my story you

0:17.1

might remember the name elder Robert E. Wells he wrote a book years ago called

0:22.1

hasten my work and in this story he told He wrote a book years ago called Hasten My Work.

0:24.0

And in this story, he told about a man who took the train home from work every day.

0:29.0

And there was a bookstore, he used bookstore right by the train station.

0:32.0

And so he'd usually buy a book and read it on the

0:34.0

train well this time he only had change in his pocket and he came into the bookstore

0:38.2

and said what is the cheapest book in your store and the, well, there's a bunch in that box down there I was going to throw away. You could have one of those for a quarter. I think it was. And he found a book with approximately 531 pages in there and picked it up and started to read.

0:57.8

This is what he got to.

0:59.5

Just love this paragraph.

1:01.2

On the bus he started to read the old beaten book of Mormon. He did not mind the double

1:04.8

columns with every verse number because he felt it gave a certain dignified importance to each

1:09.3

thought. He did not mind the lack of illustrations, nor did he expect any in such a book.

1:14.7

But the spirit of the contents intrigued him.

1:17.2

He liked the old-fashioned and unique way the story began.

1:20.5

He followed it carefully, pondering over what he was reading. This fellow got all the way to

1:25.8

2 when something strange began stirring within him. Now this is Elder Wells. Second Nephi II is probably the single most

1:35.2

doctrinally profound, deeply philosophical and spiritually potent chapter in the

1:40.0

entire volume. Now noted writers on the Book of Mormons such as Dr Sidney Sperry and Dr Hugh Nibly have commented on the

1:47.6

outstanding nature of this chapter.

1:50.5

Back to Elder Wells, if I had to single out one chapter in the Book of Mormon as having had the greatest impact in importance to me, it would be this one.

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