Hello my friends welcome to follow him favorites this year for come follow me John and I are answering a question

That goes with each week's lesson and this question John is one that we're not just gonna hit this week

We'll be hitting it for the rest of our lives

Because this this happens all the time happens. I get this question frequently

I think I just got it yesterday

It it comes in different forms, but really what it is is I was trying so hard to be good

I was doing my best and this bad thing happened to me right we're talking about Joseph of Egypt who was it was doing his best

And here all of these terrible things happen to him and the question is why

Why do these bad things happen to people who are trying to be good?

I'm sure this is something that comes up in in with your friends family students

Because it comes up with mine all the time. What do you what do you think what do you say boy Hank?

We could talk about this both of us for hours

I think sometimes you have to look at what are bad things because sometimes we cause our own problems

Sometimes other people misuse their agency terribly

tragic stories about that sometimes things are pretty random

But some better ways that I try to approach it is what do we know for sure?

We know God loves his children, but we don't know the meaning of all things to quote Nephi, right?

And the thing that's wonderful is God can even turn bad things into something wonderful

When we look at the story of Joseph at the end, he says like three times in a row God sent me before you to prepare you to

To save you and I mean the brothers could have been going no we sold you we remember the

He sure it was me

But Joseph has this great perspective. He's like I get it now

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