Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. If you have been

following Follow Him Favorites this year, you know that we are answering a single question

from each week's Come Follow Me lesson. Well, this week we're in the latter half of

First Kings, First Kings, 17, 18, and 19. I'm here with my co-host, John, by the way.

Welcome, John. Thanks. And we are going to look at a question. I want to build faith. How do I build my faith?

These stories are full of people doing amazing things because they have such deep faith in God.

If a young person came to you, John, if young single adult, a YSA, if someone came to you and said,

how do I build my faith to become Elijah Lik? How do I do that? Wow. So many places you could go

with that. I know that one of the things that President Henry Beiring said that blessed me a lot was

that the reason you write things down in a journal is not for your trips and your trophies, but it's

to document the hand of God in your life. Because I think it's easy to forget that when the Lord has

done something for you, write it down and you remember it a little bit longer and you can go back

and see that. So anyway, that would be one thing. Just don't forget, keep a catalog of the things

the Lord has done for you, maybe in a journal or write it down. But I think another thing is to do

the gospel. I think we focus on knowing the gospel a lot. And years ago, I was trying to write a

book on testimony and every general conference talk that I read about testimony included John 717.

I bet you know what it is. Many men will do than he will know of the doctrine, right? It wasn't

just to know the doctrine, but do the doctrine in order to know. And I think when we do the gospel,

our faith and the gospel increases because we start to see evidences of it. It was Naomi Randall

who wrote, I am a child of God, teach me all that I must know. It was President Spencer W. Kimball

who said, let's change that out to teach me all that I must do. And then we've talked about

President Dalin H. Oaks in October of 2000, the challenge to become. And I think they should change

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