Hello everyone. Welcome to another follow-in favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we are in Alma 13 through 16 today and you've told me you got a story so take it away.

There's a great phrase that Alma uses in a very difficult circumstance.

I mean a horrific circumstance where Alma and Amulick are witnessing people being

killed in a fire, it's horrible, and Amulick says, behold perhaps they will burn us also and Alma says this is Alma 1413 be it according to the will of the Lord but behold our work is not finished

therefore they burn us not that idea if if I'm still alive my work is not finished is

fascinating to me and I remember a talk elder Brooke P. Hales gave you can find it

in your May 2019 ensign and he talked about a woman named Patricia Parkinson who was born with normal eyesight

but at age seven she started to go blind she attended Utah schools for the deaf and blind in Ogden

that was at nine years old.

She had to be at a boarding school away from home.

And then at 11 completely, lost her eyesight,

moved home permanently at age 15, and listened to what she did.

Her work's not finished.

She went to college, graduated with an undergraduate degree

in communication disorders and psychology,

after a heroic struggle against doubting university admissions officials,

entered graduate school, completed a master's degree in speech language pathology. She now works with 53 elementary school

students and supervises four speech language technicians in her school

district.

She owns her own home, listening to this Hank,

and her own automobile.

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