Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I share a single story with each week's

Come Follow Me lesson. John, we're in chapters 25 through 33 of Genesis. You have a story. Is it about

Jacob and Esau? It is. We've often heard he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. I didn't know what that meant.

I thought, is it like a pod of message? I guess so. It's a bowl of beans. The whole idea was that

one of these things is not like the other. It reminded me of a music and the spoken word. I love the

tabernacle choir, Hank, the little messages they give in there.

And I remember this one. This was amazing to me. A few years ago, executives at a large theme park

hired consultants to help them understand how to capture the attention of small children.

The consultant spent hours in a park observing children to see what most interested them.

What they learned surprised them.

The children seemed to be most captivated, not by the exciting rides, not by the costumed

characters, not by the colorful displays, but instead by their parents' cell phones.

Especially when the parents were using them.

And I made me laugh because I thought of those Fisher Price toys we make.

Well, we'll make it in full color.

It'll look like a cell phone, but we'll make it in full color.

Maybe that'll help.

Nope.

I want the black one.

Nothing.

As one of the consultants reported, those kids clearly understood what held their parents' attention,

and they wanted it too.

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