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

Hi, Hank. Thank you.

We're going to have a great Follow Him favorites today. You know the routine, John. We're going to take on one question from this week's lesson.

We're in the latter half of second Corinthians. And in the manual, this question comes up.

How have you found simplicity in Christ and his gospel? Because often, John, there's a lot, right?

As you get to know the scriptures and the church and the policies and doctrines, and it can be a little bit overwhelming at times.

But yet we're supposed to find simplicity in it. So how do you do that?

Well, we can get into our Sunday school classes or elders corn, whatever. And I really have some spirited discussions about this or that or so many principles, so many doctrines.

If only somebody would have just said, well, here's the first principles and ordinances of the gospel, right? Here's where you should start.

Thankfully, that went worth letter articles of faith, right? Joseph Smith says, here's the first principles. And I just love it. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, faith in Christ.

That is the first principle, second repentance. And then he gave us some ordinances. But when you get overwhelmed, go back to that.

How's my faith in Christ? And am I learning of him and listening to his words? I mean, thankfully he said that because it can be overwhelming.

I remember Elder Ustra talking about airplanes. You might remember Elder Ustra talking about airplanes at some time, John.

But he talked about turbulence. Do you remember this? He talked about turbulence. And he said often, the best thing to do when things get turbulent as a pilot is to slow down, right? Just slow down a little bit.

And I think that may be what we're talking about here to find simplicity and you're feeling overwhelmed, slow down a little bit and come back to basic beliefs.

I like what you brought up with the articles of faith, because you can start an article, faith one. I believe in God. Yeah. I believe in his son. I believe in the Holy Ghost.

I believe I can be saved through the atonement of Christ.

What's that? Be still, my soul. The Lord is on my side. That's faith in Christ. You're okay. I got you. Be still. Know that I am God.

All that other stuff will figure it out together. But start with first principles. I'm right here and I'm with you.

I love that, John. And we've talked about this many times on the podcast. The Lord says, my role is to save and I am mighty to say, so I could do my own work.

I'm pretty good at this job. You're not, but I am so rely on me because I got this. I got you. I got this.

And then try to learn all you can try to experience all you can, but come back to the idea that I say, I said, I hope that's a good answer. That's simplicity.

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