Hello my friends welcome to another follow-in favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John were in Enus, Gerham, Amnai, Words of Mormon, tell me a story.

Oh, it's hard to choose something, but I love the story of Eness, especially the order in which he

prays for things.

He loses all interest in hunting. He says I prayed for

mine own soul, my soul-hungered, and then as he hears the Lord says thy sins are forgiven,

how is it done because of thy faith in Christ?

Then he says I begin to feel a desire for the welfare of my brethren and he

prays for them and then he says I prayed with many long struggling for my brother and the Lamanites.

So it goes from himself to his brothers to the Lamanites even the enemies at sometimes.

And then he prays for the records and I just think that progression teaches us something, you know, and it reminds me of one time I was at a youth conference and I remember there was a backstory going on which one of the leaders shared there was a rift with the youth in this

particular order stake I can't remember which it was a problem we had a really good

youth conference and this young sister got up probably 15 or 16 years old and I will never

forget this Hank she got up in the testimony meeting and she said you guys we've been talking about Zion in seminary and it sounds to me like we're supposed to be friends and the most wonderful spirit came into that meeting. She got teary and people in the

audience put their heads down and then one after another these kids started

coming up and they started saying if I've offended anybody I'm

really sorry and that became the whole thing if I've offended anybody I'm sorry and there

was this very Zion type one heart one mind

Feeling that just entered that room it was exactly what happened to Enus

Suddenly there were no enemies just my brother and we were all

brothers and sisters and somehow they realized it isn't us versus you, this is

the adversary versus all of us and we have got to be friends and they did it.

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