Hello my friends welcome to another follow him favorites. This year John and I are telling a single story that goes along with this week's lesson unless we have multiple stories then we might tell a bunch more but John John, this week we're in First Nephi 16 through 22 and you told me that you had a pretty awesome story

for chapter 17, right there in the beginning.

So what is this story you've been telling me about? It kind of goes along with at the end of first Nephi chapter 17 verse one. We're waiting through afflictions, very next sentence, and so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us.

It's like, wait, did you just switch moves here or something?

How do you do that?

Years ago, I had a book called Chicken Soup for the Soul at work.

You know how many of those there are, right? Chicken soup for the soul at work. You know how many of those there are, right?

Chicken soup for the left-handed aluminum siding installers sold, right? There's a

million of them. But this one was the soul at work. There was this guy named Jerry, he was always happy, always in a good mood and people would be bugged by that.

What is with you? Why are you always? And he said, well, I just, every morning remind myself I have a choice.

I can have a good day or a bad day so I

choose to have a good day if somebody yells me I can take it personal or I can put in

perspective so I put it in perspective well apparently he was a restaurant

owner and I didn't know this but to leave the

back door where the deliveries come open if you own a restaurant is a really bad

idea some robbers had been watching the place held him up a gunpoint, three of them.

So they come in the back door.

Yeah, came in the back door, he was shaking so nervously trying to open the safe that one of the robbers thought he was trying to make a move and shot him.

He's in the back of his restaurant. They shoot him, they run away and he's thinking there's

nobody here, nobody's coming and this one thought I choose to live

so he focuses on I choose to live somebody found him he said the ambulance dudes

were awesome they were gonna get you out of this he said the ambulance dudes were awesome they were going to get you out of this he said

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