Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites you know that John and I are sharing a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John we are in Alma 8 through 12 this week I'm going to share a story but you know it as well as I do so please fill in

the gaps here. There's this moment in chapter 11 where this man Ziasram offers Amulak six aontes of silver which sounds

must be a lot right I guess it's a lot yeah if he will deny the existence of a supreme being, an amulek does not take him up on his offer.

So the story I wanted to share is about McKay Christensen. John, I know you know this story.

McKay Christensen was an incredible athlete.

Maybe he still is.

McKay, if you're listening.

He was highly sought after by colleges both in baseball and football. He held

California state records in both sports, absolutely incredible, but John there were many professional teams that wanted him to skip college and come

straight to playing professional baseball. Now can you imagine being a senior in high school you're 17 or 18 years old and

you're getting offers from professional baseball teams. I remember hearing

his dad say that he was helping him through this as they're

offering him this much money and this much money and he came to the point where he

had to tell the teams that were trying to pick him up that he was going to serve a two-year mission.

And many of the teams went away.

They thought, well, that's not for us.

But there was one baseball team who really wanted him to come play for them. I think his dad said

something like this, that they're both on the line and this baseball team manager, I guess, or owner, says, tell you what, instead of serving your

mission, come play baseball and we'll make that your mission. We'll talk about your religion as a member of this team and just to sweeten the deal

John he says I'll give you a one million dollar signing bonus and this was a while ago too. Back in the 90s. Yeah, that's what I spend to

fill the Sequoia today, but yeah keep going. One million dollars John can you imagine?

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