Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John, we're in Sections 41 through 44 today, and you've told me to

come to Section 42 because you have a story. There's a phrase in here, thou shalt not be idle.

He that is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the labor.

But that idea of being idle. What does that mean exactly? Well, soon after my wife and I were married,

Hank, we had a couple of kids who kind of outgrew our car. Conan got a Toyota forerunner. And we wanted to

name it Elias. We thought that would be funny if people went, oh, Elias was a forerunner.

Very scriptural vehicle. We went on license plate that said Elias, somebody had already had the

idea and taken it. This was great, but have you ever been up Parley's Canyon before, Hank?

Kind of a grade that you have to go up. We put it on cruise control, you know, it's 65 or whatever, but it just wouldn't make it.

It was what people sometimes say, this car is gutless, you know, it doesn't have enough power.

Just, yeah. And then, okay, Hank, you know my son, Matthew. It was time to have another, and we

thought we need a minivan. And Kim wanted to postpone the evil minivan day as long as possible but we went

and we got a Honda Odyssey at 2002 as I recall oh okay you sold a lot of books that year

all right it was used but uh of course to test drive it went up parley's canyon with my wife

what is what is this going to be like? I wonder if this

will make it on cruise. Went right up Parley's summit without coming out of cruise control.

I thought it was so awesome. When we got up there finally and we stop at a stoplight and both had this impression.

What's the word we use when an engine is running, but it's not delivering any power?

That's idle, right?

It's idling, yeah.

And it was this great scriptural connection that we made.

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