Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the

amazing John, by the way. Hello, John, by the way. I think.

If you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year, we're taking a single question

from each week's lesson and talking about it. This lesson is on the book of Ruth and

the first three chapters of first Samuel. We're taking our question from first Samuel,

chapter three, in which Samuel hears the voice of the Lord, but doesn't know it's the voice of

the Lord. He thinks Eli is calling him. And so he goes to Eli. What did you want? And Eli says,

it's not me. Go back to bed. This happens a couple of times until Samuel finally realizes,

oh, wait, that's the voice of the Lord. A common question I get is, how do I tell the difference?

How do I know if it's the spirit, the voice of the Lord, or just my own thoughts? So I think

this is a good time to bring this up, John. How would you help someone say, how do I distinguish

between the Holy Ghost and my own voice? Such a good question. I remember hearing David Omake,

somebody saying that the conscience speaks through our own voice, or it sounds like our own voice.

Sometimes when the Holy Ghost or our conscience speak to us, it's in our voice. And I think one of

the really helpful ways is, you know, this Hank in the book of Mormon, what is it? Maron I7. Does it

lead you to do good? Does it lead you to believe in Christ? Sometimes if you're not sure, what is it

asking you to do? Is it asking you to do something good that drinks in your faith in Christ? And then

you can know if the perfect knowledge it's of God, if it's asking you to do something good, that's

consistent with what you know about the gospel. So that helps. But I just love if teenager

ears are asking the question, that right there is awesome. Just the fact that you're asking the

question, means you're on the right track. And you will, you'll get there. It's something you learn

over time. It's a very much a line upon line thing. I remember Elder Packer saying he listened

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