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This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson.

John, Exodus 1 through 6.

You have a story and I'm ready to hear it.

Yeah, we remember that both Moses and Enoch said something similar in the Pearl Great Price, that I'm slow of speech,

I'm of a slow tongue, I can't talk. Well, in Exodus 412, the Lord says, now therefore go, and I will be with

thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say. Interesting phrase, I'll be with thy mouth. I thought,

what is that gift of tongues? He helped him. I do have kind of a gift of tongue story. You know, Hank, that I am intrigued by

World War II history. I have a book called A Distant Prayer, and it's by Joseph Banks and Jerry

Barrowman. Elder Ben Banks was Joseph Banks, I believe, youngest brother. When I read this book,

I thought, okay, this is not like Hogan's heroes. He was on a B-17 crew, shot down, spent

time in a German prisoner of war camp. Towards the end of the war, the Germans say the Russians

are coming, we're going to evacuate the camp and march you out of here.

They march for like six weeks and then the Germans were ordered to the Russian front. So now

these prisoners are on their own. They're alone, if I remember right. They have a big white

P.W on the front and the back and on their pants that means prisoner of war. Well, this story is so cool. They're marching

through these towns. They don't have a map of Germany. He said he tried to remember one the best he could.

We crept along slowly and deliberately, these group of prisoners of war, hardly making a sound,

maintaining 10 feet between each member of our team.

Roland was a great leader at times like this because he never got excited or panicked.

Suddenly, I was startled by a voice in the darkness as I instinctively turned to look, a door

open from a house on my left, the light from inside shone on me, and it was such an unexpected

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