Hey, welcome to follow him favorites. John and I share a single story to go with each week's

Come Follow Me lesson. John, we're in the book of Joshua this week, and you've told me you have a story.

Yeah, I think one of the most memorable verses of Joshua is Choojee, this day whom ye will serve.

Yep.

Right. And there's also verses about hearkening and

I just think there's so many different things that are trying to get our attention today that are

distracting one of my favorite elder richard g scott quotations was Satan has a powerful tool to use against

good people it is distraction distraction. Disraction. Yep.

Choosing what to give our attention to. So I picked up this little book by David Jeremiah about living in the last days, and this is what he wrote. One of the worst train accidents

in American history happened in the fall of 2008 near Chatsworth, California. A MetroLink

commuter train ran a red light on the tracks and

collided head-on with a freight train, killing 25 people and injuring 135 others. What went wrong?

When investigators probed the accident, they found that the engineer received seven text messages

and had sent five himself during the fateful ride. It is amazing to think that something as

simple as a cell phone could be so distracting to a veteran engineer that it cost so many people

their lives, including the engineer himself.

But that is what distractions do.

They can trip up the most competent and experienced people and wreak havoc in all manner of ways.

Just so you know, I get distracted too.

We have all got to just keep our eyes on the Savior. That has been such a theme we've been hearing to walk with me and to keep our eyes on Christ. Every day, remind yourself, am I distracted?

Right. Am I staying focused? Sometimes I'll ask my BYU students. How many of you have deleted

an app? It took too much of your time and almost all of the braids your hand. And I'll say, and how many of you have deleted an app? It took too much of your time

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