Hello, everyone. Welcome to another follow him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with John,

by the way. Welcome, John. I thank you. John, let's take on a single question from this week's

Come Follow Me lesson. It comes from chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians, which, as you know, is all about

charity. So, John, how do I develop this gift? How do I get this gift from God? I want it,

but how do I get it? Well, such a good question. First, read the chapter and then you kind of get an

idea of the sense of how Paul is saying, you know, there's a lot of, a lot of traits we can focus on,

but without charity, that they don't mean much. So, I think it's something we ask for. Definitely,

I think it's something we study and ponder about, but I also think it's something we can try to

practice. And maybe at first, we are not feeling charitable towards our little brothers or

something, but sometimes an act of charity, even though we're begrudging, we can start to feel

the fruits of it and think, you know, I'm glad I did that. You know, is that ever happened?

Yeah, I think so. You can practice charity, and maybe that's a way of showing the Lord

that you want to have the gift that only he can offer. President Monson said, charity is having

patience with someone who's let us down. Charity is resisting the impulse to become offended easily.

Charity is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. Charity is accepting people as they are.

Charity is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time.

Charity is resisting the impulse to categorize others. So, I can practice those things,

right, John? And that can show the Lord I really want this gift of being charity.

Yeah. And when I think about how I want people to view me, I hope they view me through the lens

of charity, and that helps me to have it for others. You know, it's kind of that idea of if I judge

harshly, I may be judged harshly in return, but if I can extend charity and figure folks are doing

the best they can, maybe they'll look at me and say, well, I guess he's doing the best he can.

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