Hello my friends welcome to this week's follow him favorites this year we are telling a single story to go with each week's lesson

John this week we're in this huge chunk of second Nephi in the Isaiah chapters and I have a

story I think you'll like. Are you ready? Yes absolutely. All right you know in

chapter 12 where Isaiah talks about many people flowing to the house of the Lord, right?

The mountain of the Lord, let's go to the go to the temple. I want to tell you a story about a miracle, at least I believe it's a miracle that happened in the

Akra Ghana temple about 10 years ago. There's a man named John EcoMensa. He's in his 80s. He joined the church 10 years previous to this, so 20 years ago, lived alone in a town called Nacaca. I think that's how you say it. He'd been a member of the church, I think, for 10 or 15 years,

and now he's making trips to the temple. He's in a waiting area at the temple.

The other man sits down next to him and they strike up a conversation starting with oh where are you from and the man says oh I'm from secundi and he said oh I'm from secundi what part of secundi are you from and the man said oh I'm from right where the schools are and there's this growing sense of

recognition to where the man says what is your name this is the younger man he

says to John Ecominta what is He says to John Ecomensa. What is your name? And John Ecomensa, are convert, he said,

oh, I'm John Ecomensa. The younger man says to Brother Ecomensa, that is my name too.

What?

So what had happened is that years and years and years ago, decades previous to this,

John Ecomensa Sr. had had a falling out with his

mother-in-law who was also like a matriarch of his tribe, his town. And she had exiled him and he had to leave behind his wife and infant son.

Over the decades he had moved far away and been working when he ends up joining our church.

On the other side of this is his son, John Ecomensa Jr, who grew up never knowing his father, right, never, they never talked about him.

He ends up getting married to his wife, Deborah. He was at the University of Accra in Ghana and he picked up a Leahona magazine.

So get this, John, when he gets home from school talking to his wife Deborah, she says,

now, John, this is the same day he picks up this magazine, she says,

I want to tell you about a church I learned from a friend.

She told him the name of the church was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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