Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the amazing John by the way. Welcome John by the way.

Thank you.

I just think you're the best. Hey, John, this week's question comes from Obadaya. Obadaya is a book in the Bible. It's only 21 verses long, but on the very last verse,

there's a phrase that says, and Savior shall come up on Mount Zion. So John, my follow him question of the week for you is what is a savior upon Mount Zion? What does that phrase mean to you?

You know, I used to hear that when I was a kid. I remember being told you can be a savior upon Mount Zion. What? And if you look at the verse, notice that Savior's it's a small s. It's not the savior. There's one savior

that is Jesus Christ, of course, but we can act kind of in that role. And what helps me what is a savior on Mount Zion is to look at that foot and out there. The topical guy says genealogy and temple work mission of Latter-day Saints and salvation for the dead.

So the idea of a savior, I think if I'm getting this right, is to do something for someone they can't do for themselves or maybe that they can't do right now for themselves. So we can go to the temple.

We can be a proxy for someone who did not have the opportunity to be baptized on the certain can be baptized for them or receive an endowment for them in that way. That's what I understand. We can be a savior upon Mount Zion. I guess Mount Zion means the temple. Am I getting that right?

Yeah, I think so. I think John, we love Jesus so much. We talk about him. And if we were to just sit down with anybody listening, they would say, I absolutely love Jesus. Well, why? Because of what he has done for me.

Well, in that same vein, we can become like you said, lowercase s, saviors for other people who will look at you very similarly as the way they look at the savior and say, I love you. Why?

Because what you have done for me in doing my work at the temple. And remember, there's some blessing that comes for us as well that Joseph Smith said, they can't be saved without us. I totally understand that they can't be saved without us. They don't have physical bodies.

But then he added, we can't be saved without them that they are doing work for us on the other side. And I think you're the one who taught me that Elder Holland, I think, said, never underestimate your family on the other side of the veil. Never underestimate what the other side of the veil is doing for you.

But in order, I think to take part in that and have more and more part of it is get yourself to the temple so you can be closer and closer to that veil and to that connection.

Yeah, I think that those people that we get to do work for, I think they'll want to find us one day in the journal of Horus Cummings.

He wrote that Joseph Smith said that those who had done the work for them, they would follow their feet, embrace their knees and manifest the most exquisite gratitude.

Which just is a fun thing to look forward to. You see those folks at the temple who go every weekend have done thousands of names and think of those people in the greeting they will get.

But I like that you said that I remember after my father passed away way back in 2004.

I was talking to Dr Robert Millett, brother Millett that we've had on our program before and put his arm around my shoulder and said, your father will be able to do more for you now than he could have here.

And I never considered that before. So I'm glad you brought that up. So we need each other and the Lord has arranged a way for us to help each other and part of that for us right now is to go to the temple.

We hope anyone listening right now will just get your calendar out and make an appointment to go to the temple. If you have free time today, don't wait any longer.

Go get in the car and go get your shoes on if it's not too far away and get yourself over to the temple so you can take part of this Savior's upon Mount Zion role.

And if that's a step you need to take, if you don't have a recommend right now, I know the Lord and the bishop are eager to give you one. I experienced that the Lord wants this person in the temple.

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