Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with

each week's Come Follow Me lesson. John, we are in First Kings 12 through 23 this week. It's all about

Elijah, and I have a story for you. It fits when Elijah, you know this story, when he has this,

basically the first reality TV show, and he puts these two altars together and says to the priest of Baal, call upon your God,

I'll call upon my God, we'll see what happens.

The priest of Baal call upon their God and nothing happens.

And, you know, Elijah says, maybe he's busy. Maybe he's on vacation.

On vacation. Yeah. Maybe he, maybe he's asleep. Then he puts water on his altar, 12 barrels of water,

and has all these rocks and wood and the offering. He prays for the Lord to show the people. And it says,

then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice. And the wood and the stones and the dust

and the water. It takes everything. And when the people saw it, they fell on their

faces and they said, the Lord, he is God. The Lord He is God. They're like, I believed before, but now I'm

100% in. Well, this is a different type of story, but something that happens right before your eyes.

The date is October 9, 1846.

Navu is under siege.

John, you know this.

There are mobs literally firing cannons at the saints trying to get them all to leave Navu.

Many of them had already left earlier in 1846.

This is October. And really, the only people who are left are those who don't have enough money,

the poorest of the saints, to get west. Brigham Young had everybody take on the Navu covenant

that we wouldn't leave anybody behind. But that's going to

take a while to get everybody over. But they have to leave. I mean, they're being shot at. They only

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