Hey, welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with

each week's lesson. John, we are studying the family proclamation this week, and I have a story

for you. This comes from a good friend of mine named Keith. Keith was a teenager growing up in Alaska. He said he and his best

friend were strong members of the church. They kept their standards. They had a lot of friends who

weren't members of the church who didn't have the same standards, but they were able to uphold each

other when some of their friends would do things that, oh, that's, that's probably not what

we're going to do, right? Hey, we're going to go home now. Goodbye. And they would always go together.

And Keith said his friend was kind of the stronger one of the two, he felt when it came to the

gospel. But one evening at one of these parties, his friend,

who he said was the stronger of the two, he looked over and he was drinking alcohol.

He was kind of shocked by it and didn't know what to think and they ended up leaving the party

later and he thought about it all week.

Like, well, he did that and he's, you know, he's the strong one. My friend Keith made the decision

that week that he was going to break the word of wisdom. Wow. He was going to drink.

So the night comes that they're going to go out with their friends again. And he says goodbye to his parents and goes out.

And he said, when we got to the house, we had been there not very long, just a few minutes when the phone rings.

Now, John, this is back when the phone was attached to the

house if we have a listener out there who says what wait why was the phone attached to the house

you have to ask your grandma this was this was a long time ago it's not keith's house but the person there

says hey keith it's for you. And he's for me.

Why would the phone be for me at this house?

Yeah, I don't know.

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