Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm

here with the wonderful John, by the way. We are the host of a podcast called Follow Him.

But each week we do a little clip called Follow Him Favorites where we answer just a single

question from this week's lesson. John, we're in Exodus 24, 31 through 34. And we're

going to focus in on a question from chapter 31, which is all about the Sabbath day. Why is

the Sabbath day important? Because I remember when when I was a kid, I would have told you

that Sabbath day was a big day of like, don't do that. Don't say that. Don't watch that. Don't laugh

at that. Don't look at that. Don't play that. So there was a lot of don't do that on the Sabbath

day. And it kind of built up a little bit of resentment in me. I remember not loving Sunday.

So what is Exodus 31? And what do you have to say about how can we make the Sabbath day a better

day, right? A day that we look forward to instead of a day we we're fearing. There's a couple of great

lines in here that I know President Nelson has talked about. And that is that the Sabbath will be

a sign between me and the that's Exodus 31, 13, also Exodus 31, 17. It's also an Ezekiel 2020,

which is the one I like because 2020 is easy to remember because it sounds like good vision.

Like the Lord's watching you. Kind of like if the Lord had a hidden camera on you and we're watching

you, would he be able to tell that your Sabbath day is any different than the other days? And it's

a sign between me and you throughout your generations. And I don't know that helped me a lot. I

thought about my first year of marriage. I looked at my Franklin Day planner. This is going back. It

wasn't electronic. It was on what we call paper. It was on papyrus that I got from the Nile.

I just remember looking at the date August 9th and going, that's something. What is that?

And I'm so glad. I remember that was the anniversary of our first date. And so I stopped. I bought a

rose or something. Just, you know, I spent five bucks or something, but it had such an impact on

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