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 85, 86, and 87, and I saw a verse in section 85 that reminded me of a story.

I'm going to read the verse to you and then tell you the story. This is actually

verses one and two, where the Lord says, I want a record kept of all the consecrated people.

All the consecrated people. I want you to write down all those things that transpire for them.

Verse two, their manner of life, their faith, and their works. Well, it made me think of this

story. It's from Elder Quentin L. Cook. He talks about being 25 years old and going to two

funerals back to back. I want you to hear this. He said I was 25 years old. I had just graduated from

Stanford Law School. John, that's huge. He said, I just started employment with a law firm.

I spent my workday with highly educated people who had amassed significant material possessions.

I don't know if I fall into that category, John, amass significant material possession.

I have a private jet, but it's this long.

And it says Mattel on the bottom, right?

Flies around my office every day.

He says they were kind on the whole, gracious and attractive people.

He said the church members I associated with were much more diverse. Very few of them had material

wealth. They were also wonderful people and had meaning in their lives. He says it was this point

where he had two funerals back to back.

One was a man he calls in this story, this is the March 2017 enzyme, I believe.

He calls the first man rich and the other man faithful.

He says these two funerals are cemented in my mind because they clarified, I think to him as a

young man, the significance of the choices people have in front of them. Elder Cook that we

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