Hello everyone welcome to another follow him favorites. John and I are telling a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John today we're in Mosiah 11 through 17, Abinnidae.

You've told me you have a story, I want to hear it.

Yeah, I do.

If you remember, Hank, they tried kind of to stump Abinnadai

with an Isaiah question, what does it mean how beautiful upon the mountains of the

feet of him that bring of good tidings and publisheth peace and I remember this story

about shoes that I just had never forgot and actually it's kind of fun Hank because you might

remember E FY books back when they used to make a book well we have a new general

authority 70 named elder David L.ner. He was an E. F. Y counselor with me back in the day.

I know Dave. Yeah. I should say Elder Buckner. Right, we better call him elder Buckner, but he wrote a chapter in this book and he tells this wonderful story.

He said not long ago, Elder Em Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was assigned to preside over and speak at a church conference in La Pause, Bolivia.

Members traveled from far off towns and villages to attend.

A number of members had to sacrifice much time, effort, and money to get to the meetings.

Prior to the meeting, Elder Ballard stood in front of the chapel to greet some of the arriving brethren and he noticed that many of them looked

dishevelled and pretty tired and you noticed that some of them had a discoloration on their shirts

from mid-chest and above their shirts. From mid-chest and above their shirts were white and clean from mid-chest and below they were stained with a reddish coloring. When they

approached to shake Elder Ballard's hand,

they informed him that they were so pleased

to have arrived in time to meet him,

and they spent many hours traveling to the meetings

much of the time on foot. They were required to

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