Hello, everyone. 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're almost done with the Book of Mormon. Our lesson this

week is in Maroni chapter 10, the last chapter in the book of Mormon. We've made it quite a ways.

And I have a story for you. It has to do with

Maronai chapter 10 verse 4. Most people know Maronai's promise, right? Something that comes up a lot.

Sometimes we say, oh, you just need to read the book of Mormon, pray about it, and God will tell you

if it's true. And it seems there's a lot more to it than that. We look at God's mercy, ponder God's

mercy. And then Marona makes this statement, ask God the eternal father in the name of Christ if these

things are not true. And if you will ask with a sincere heart with real intent, I have a story for you.

It doesn't turn out as well as you'd hope, but it actually does, I hope, teach this lesson.

Right.

Way back when I taught seminary at Copper Hills High School, if anybody knows where that is, go Grizzlies.

I was there for quite a few years.

In this one year, we had a foreign exchange student come in from Denmark.

Her name is Bella.

And because Bella's host family, the daughter that was in the host family about the same age as Bella, she took seminary.

So Bella took seminary.

I knew up front, this wasn't a matter of let's try to convert this girl.

So this particular seminary class of which she was a part of, they adored her, John.

I mean, she spoke kind of broken English. She was really fun. They said, Bella, have you ever had an Oriole milkshake? And she says, what is that? We got to get her an

Oreo milkshake, right? Absolutely. Have you ever had Sour Patch kids? They're basically given her

diabetes. Everyone bought her a treat every time. Her friend in her host family, she would

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