Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I will share a single story

to go with each week's lesson in the Come Follow Me Manual this year. Now, John, the very first

lesson this year is called the Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you go down in the manual, there's a talk that is referenced.

It's from Elder Uchtdorf.

It's called Are You Sleeping Through the Restoration?

And it made me think of a story for this week's following favorites. So, John, I'm going to

expose a little bit of my own lack of spirituality here. Anybody who listens to the show enough

knows that that's not a surprise. So this was back when Sarah and I didn't have any children.

We flew out back east to see her sister and her sister's husband. This is Amy and Derek Booth. They had a little boy named Broderick, who we call Brody. So Brody was just a little two-year-old, I think, at the time. we decided, since we were out there, that we should drive

over to see the sacred grove. So the five of us drove out to see the grove. In my head, I had this

idea that the sacred grove would be a specific spot, 30 by 30 foot area where there would be a plaque or something that says this is where

Joseph knelt and prayed. Now, John, I've been there many times and so of you. It's not that way

at all. It's a big vast area with pathways running through it. Well, John, can you imagine me

not knowing that?

And being kind of irreverent,

I threw a Brody on my shoulders.

He would direct me using my ears as handles.

We were running and playing through these pathways.

He was steering me into trees.

And there's people who were sitting on benches who looked up at us being really noisy and laughing,

looking at us like we were crazy.

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