Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I share a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John we're in Mosiah 25 through 29 or 28 this week and I have a story for you from

CS Lewis they did a movie on Chronicles of Narnia ten years ago maybe longer

than that now where it brings in this boy Eustis, and he fits quite

closely to Alma the younger, because Eustis comes to Narnia, which is this magical land and you've got As land, this Christ figure. I know you know that part.

But Eustus, he's a difficult person. He wants to ruin almost everything. He hates the people there. He hates the other people he came with, his cousins. He wants to be away from all, he's very selfish, very prideful.

At one point in the book, he gets away from the group, far away from them, finds himself in

like a dragon's cave, and in this dragon's cave is all sorts of

treasure and he loves it he's so excited to be so rich and to be away from these

these people that he's with he falls asleep basically in this dragon's treasure and

Lewis writes he had greedy dragonish thoughts in his heart and he became the dragon. So when he wakes up, he's the dragon. He comes down to talk to his friends and of course he can't talk because he's a dragon and they try to kill him. And eventually one of the friends, her name is Lucy she she figures out who it is

here's a couple of quotes from the story it says an appalling loneliness came over him it was very dreary being a dragon. He shuttered whenever he caught sight of his own reflection. He was ashamed to be with others.

And his friends try to help him, but they think we can't stay here forever. We might have to leave him here, right? We might have to leave him on this island, you know, being a dragon. I don't think dragons can go on the boat with you, right?

They can. They just can't breathe because they start the boat on fire.

Just don't sneeze, right? So they wake up one morning and he is back to his

original form. He's definitely a changed person but he's back to his

original form and they asked him what happened. Now think of that with

Alma the younger when he wakes up and they asked him basically what happened happened yeah what happened so

here's what he said he said I was lying awake wondering what on earth would become

of me when I looked up and saw a huge lion coming slowly toward me, it told

me to follow it. It led me into the mountains. There was always light wherever the lion went. So at last we came to the top of a mountain and there was a

garden there, trees and fruit and everything. And in the middle of it there was a very big round

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