Hello my friends welcome to follow him favorites this is where John and I are sharing a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John we are in 3520 through 26 and I have a story for you.

Although you may remember it, it was given in general conference 24 years ago,

turn of the century, October 2000.

If you go to 3rd to 3520, verse 41, the Lord says,

Go ye out from the midst of her, meaning Babylon wickedness,

Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Well, Elder Holland in this talk

called Sanctify yourselves tells this story about being clean.

He says, let me share a story with you suggesting how soon and how unexpectedly these moments

can come that you need to be clean. He says on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 30th,

1998, a little league football team in Incham, Idaho was out on the field for its midweek practice.

They had completed their warm-ups and were starting to run a few plays from scrimmage.

Dark clouds were gathering, as they sometimes do in the fall, and it began to rain lightly, but that was of no concern to a group of boys who loved playing football.

Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere nowhere an absolutely deafening crack of thunder

split the air inseparable from the flash of lightning that illuminated

literally electrified the entire scene.

At that very moment a young friend of mine, A.J. Edwards, then a deacon in his ward of the McCammon, Idaho steak.

Was ready for the ball on the handoff that was sure to be a touchdown.

But the lightning that had illuminated earth and sky struck A.J. Edwards from the crown of his football

helmet to the soles of his shoes. The impact of the strike stunned everyone, knocking players to the

ground, leaving one player temporarily without his sight,

and virtually everyone else dazed and shaken. Instinctively, they started running for the

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