Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

We are in Mosiah 4, 5 and 6 today, John. King Benjamin, you know it well.

I'm going to read you a verse and tell you a story, see what you think.

Look at chapter 4, verse 10.

King Benjamin says, you need to repent of your sins, forsake them, humble

yourselves, and ask in sincerity of heart for God to forgive you, if you believe all these things, see that you do them.

If you believe all these things, see that you do them.

I was thinking about this, and it even says a little bit later that it does not requisite

that a man should run faster than he has strength.

And I thought of a story from Elder Joseph B. Wirthland, about 20 years ago in general conference.

It's called Life's Lessons Learned. He's just going through some things he learned. He said I learned a lesson on a football field at the bottom of a pile of 10 other players

It was the Rocky Mountain Conference Championship game and the play called for me to run the ball up the middle to score the go-ahead touchdown.

I took the hand off, plunged into the line. I knew I was close to the goal line, but I didn't know how close.

Then I was pinned at the bottom of the pile. So he's down, John. I reached my fingers a couple of inches forward and I could feel it. The goal line was two inches away.

At that moment, I was tempted to push the ball forward. I could have done it.

Everyone's on top of him. When the refs had

pulled everybody off, they just would have thought, there it is, and I'm the hero. No one

he says would have ever known. He said I had dreamed of this moment since I was a boy. Can you imagine John they pull off all the

the other players and there's Joseph B. Wirthland hero of the day. But then he said I remembered the words of my mother. Joseph do what is right no matter the

consequence. I wanted so desperately he says to score that touchdown but more than being a hero in the eyes of my friends I

Wanted to be a hero in the eyes of my mother

So I left the ball where it was two inches from the goal. He says I didn't know it at the time but this was a

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