Hello everyone, welcome to this week's Follow Him Favorites. We're doing a little something

different this year. Maybe you've seen it by now, where we pick a question that we've received

from youth or even our own students and kind of bringing that up as part of this week's lesson.

So John, the question that I've received from students is this idea in, and it comes up in

different places. But in Moses 7, the Lord says, there was no poor among them. It comes up in

fourth Nephi, comes up a little bit in the book of Acts. This idea of there's no poor among them.

And I've had students say before, am I supposed to be giving everything I have away? If I don't do

that, am I am I a bad person? If I see a homeless person on the street and I don't go over and

give them money or get them and take them to dinner and you know, that's what Jesus would do.

Like, where's the line between me living my life and moving forward and trying to reach this

ideal? So do you have any thoughts on that? What would you say? Wow, that's a great one.

And it comes up, I teach down at the BYU Salt Lake Center. We're like on Fort Thwest,

Third West. We see a downtown Salt Lake. Yeah, some of that. And I think sometimes I like to

look at the end of the sermon on the mount, take no thought for the mar what you shall eat,

what you shall wear, what you shall put on. Right? Literally, we're supposed to go to the park

and play Hackeysack and expect, you know, who's going to we don't have to we should just have

others feed us. And then and then the book Mormon makes it clear he was speaking to the 12.

I'm going to take care of you. But we all we have to do that. We have to provide for our families.

We look at the proclamation to the world on the family. I'm supposed to be a provider.

But then I can also have a donation of pay my tithing and fast offerings. And and that is one of the

fun, you know, challenges of life. What is the right balance here for me to take care of my family,

my home, provide for my children, and also do what every Christian wants to do. And that is help

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