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This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson.

John, we are in the book of Exodus this week, and I have a story for you.

It's a simple story, but it really has stayed with me.

Do you remember in Exodus chapter 17, Moses has his hands up. And as long as he has his hands up,

the Israelites win this battle. Yeah. It says his arms are very heavy and he's, you can't do it

under his own strength. So two people, Aaron and her, H-U-R, come under his arms. Do you remember

this? And they, they hold up his arms. It said it stayed up his

hands. Listen to this story. This is told from President Iring, but it was a long time ago when

President Iring was a singles ward bishop. This is what he says. He says, you may have had the

experience of being made stronger

by the people you were called to serve. That's exactly what happens in this story. When I was Bishop of a

young single adults ward, a young man came in for counsel. He was a freshman at a very good university.

So a week after they'd had their talk, he schedules

another appointment. This young man comes in. He's a new member of the church. He's only 18 years old.

John, sometimes we learn things from new members. The fact that they don't know how things maybe

are supposed to run or

traditionally run, that they do something and you think, why don't we all do that? So he comes

into his bishop's office and says, Bishop, could we pray before we talk? And could we kneel? And I

would like to say the prayer.

Okay.

He says, his request surprised me, but his prayer surprised me even more.

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