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. Thank you. Good to be back.

You know the drill, John. Follow Him Favorites. We answer a single question from this week's

lesson. John, the question is from Luke 22. There's a verse where the Savior says to Peter,

I have prayed for thee that thy faith failed not, and when thou art converted, strengthen thy

brethren. Now, we know that Peter has a testimony. He's bored his testimony many times, and yet

here the Savior is saying, when you're converted. So the question for this week is, what's the

difference between those two things? What's the difference between having a testimony and being

converted? What would you say? You know, we all have used a voltage converter, maybe we travel

or a catalytic converter on our car. It kind of changes something into something else. So I

wonder if it's part of you're becoming a different person, a new creature, like Paul might say,

to be converted. My dad used to say, there's a difference between being convinced and converted.

Maybe when you're converted, you start changing and becoming something different than you were. How's

that sound? Yeah, you know in the book of Mormon, how often it talks about, and they, whatever

group of people were converted unto the Lord, converted unto the Lord. And I take that to mean

that something inside of them has changed. The idea of a convertible, a car that can change versus

a testimony, which a testimony is very knowledge-based. It's things that I know, whereas conversion is

something like you said, is I, something I've become. Yeah, I like that you used the book of Mormon

idea. It never mentions in the book of Mormon converts to the church. We say that sometimes, but the

object of our conversion is the Lord. Book of Mormon teaches us. So trying to become like Jesus,

a lifelong thing. And please don't think conversion is, you know, it's a mighty change of heart,

but it doesn't mean an instant change. Absolutely. Yeah. President Henry B. Eiring said,

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