Hello everyone welcome to another follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John we're in Alma 1 through 4 I think we tagged on Mosiah 29 with that as well

you've told me you have a story for Alma 4 what is it? You know how an Alma

410 it says the wickedness of the church became a great stumbling block right

and what is that it's something we trip over it it impedes our progress right yeah I

can't move forward with it my way yeah and President Hinckley told this story in the April

2006 conference I have to warn you first it's a bit of a gut punch you know

okay but so's that verse the wickedness of the church becoming a

stumbling block hey that's not what we're after so this is what President

Incley says about a young man who is not a member of the church and he says

his parents who were active in another

faith and he recalls this young man that when he was growing up some of his

LDS associates okay get ready for the gut punch belittled him him, made him feel out of place, poked fun at him, he literally

came, these are President Hinckley's words, he came to literally hate this church in its people,

he saw no good in any of them. Then his father lost his employment and had to move in a new

location at the age of 17 he was able to enroll in college and for the first time in his life felt the warmth of friends, one of whom named

Richard asked him to join a club. And he said for the first time in my life

someone wanted me around. I didn't know how to react, but thankfully I joined. It was a

feeling that I loved, the feeling of having a friend. I had prayed for one my whole

life and God answered that prayer. And then he talked about having a tent partner in a summer job.

I don't know what that means. I guess you have a job where you work in a tent, right?

Okay?

...