Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the incredible John. By the way, welcome John.

Thanks, Hank.

And this is where we do a short clip with this week's lesson. John, we're in Matthew chapter 5.

And I think a good question from Matthew chapter 5 that Matthew chapter 5 answers is,

how can I find lasting happiness? So John, let's use Matthew 5 and answer this question. Where do I find lasting happiness?

It may not come from what we think it's going to come from. When it comes from the Savior, it may come from a backwards point of view.

Yeah, the beatitudes have been called the happy attitudes because blessed are the, you know, could have been translated.

Happy are they? Yeah, I was just wondering if the people that were there were like, what a blessed or an experienced blessed are they that mourn? How's that blessed?

Yeah, how am I happy? Yeah. One of the things that I've heard you talk about so beautifully, Hank, is the idea of happiness is a mode of travel. It's not a destination.

So the book of Mormon says we lived after the manner of happiness. And that's how do we discover what that manner is?

And something that I love that you've done, Hank, is talking about people who put a deadline on it. And as soon as this, then I'll be happy.

Yeah, we do that so often. As soon as I graduate from high school, I'll be happy. As soon as I'm out of college, I'll be happy. As soon as I'm married, as soon as I have kids, as soon as I, the kids move out, right?

As soon as I'm retired, it just keeps going. The happiness is out there somewhere else.

And I've always thought that unless happiness is where you are, it's never going to be somewhere else.

You've got to find it in the situation you are currently in. The come follow me, manual says this. Everybody wants to be happy, but not everyone looks for happiness in the same places.

Some search for it in worldly power and position. Others in wealth or in satisfying physical appetites.

Jesus Christ came to teach the way to lasting happiness, to teach what it truly means to be blessed or to be happy.

So what you can do is you can go into Matthew chapter 5 and you can kind of grade yourself on what the Savior outlines here, being poor in spirit,

mourning, being meek, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, being merciful to other people, being pure in heart,

not having any ulterior motives, being a peacemaker in your home, and maybe you're persecuted for Jesus's sake.

He says that's going to lead to long-term happiness for you, lasting happiness.

And being a light to the world, trying to be an uplifting influence to the people around you,

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