Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following Follow Him for

the last two years, you know that we do these little side tidbits called Follow Him Favorites.

It's where we take just a small portion of each week's lesson and talk about it so we

can post this on Instagram or Facebook or wherever you get your little tidbits of social

media. John, this week's lesson is called, I am responsible for my own learning or we are

responsible for our own learning. The question is, how do I gain and keep my own testimony?

What would you say to someone who's maybe coming home off a mission and saying, I've gained

a testimony, how do I keep it? Wow, I wish we had more time. Lots of thoughts come to

mine. One of them is the parable of the sower. But I think the parable of the sower, that's

the kind of soil you have. That's if your heart's open. But then you get to Alma and

he plants the word. And everybody knows after you plant a seed, are you done? No. Faith

diligence in patience. I call it FDP fertilizer. Faith diligence in patience, Alma says, you

got to take care of it. And he says, if it doesn't grow, that's not because the seed

wasn't good. It's because your ground is barren. The analogy of riding a bicycle is a good

one because once you know you just know how to ride a bike, you never have to think about

it again. And the testimony is not like that. It's like a tree. It's used Jesus as example.

And Alma's example, it's like something that you grow. And to keep it, it has to keep

being nurtured and watered and getting the nutrients out of the ground. It's an active

thing that you keep growing. I love to use those metaphors that the scriptures use about

keeping it growing. And faith diligence, patience, what else would you say, Hank, is part

of keeping it growing? I like what you're saying here because sometimes we say, oh, I lost

my testimony. As if, you know, I had it and I lost it. But you can't lose a tree. No one

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