Hello everyone, welcome to this week's Follow Him Favorites.

If you've been following this year, you know that John and I take a single question from

this week's lesson to use as our follow him favorite.

This week we are in the Book of Judges.

The question this week is about Samson and how important it is to date well, to marry

well, to surround yourself with good influences.

Does it matter who my friends are and who I date and who I marry?

How much does it matter?

I think the story of Samson can answer that dramatically.

Don't you, John?

It's a tough one to talk to kids about taking a hard look and saying, do I need to change

my friends?

I love that word that you use, take the influences.

You know the example I like to use with teenagers is driving because they're all very excited

about getting the drivers license and stuff.

If you're in somebody else's car, you're going where they're going.

Are you an influencer or are you influenced?

And President Emmerusso Ballard said once, we must influence more than we are influenced.

Really requires a bit of honesty to say, what are my friends doing to me?

Are they taking me where I want?

Are we all helping each other get where we want?

If my friends driving the car, it's okay because we both want to go to a good place or

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