Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorite. John and I are telling a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John I have a story for you, Mosiah 7-8-9-10. It's the story of Limhi and he has tried for so long to get out of bondage to the Lamanites.

He's tried to fight his way out. He sent a search party to go find Zara Hamla. He's tried everything possible and I think he thinks that's it. It's over. We have no other options. It's not going to happen.

And I wonder if the people of Limhi were thinking there are no miracles.

God does not answer prayers. So I had a story. This is from Elder Bruce Hayford. We've had him on the podcast.

Well, back in 1979, Elder Hayfin was at BYU and he told this story. He said when he was younger,

he was on his mission in Germany and he had a bit of a hardened heart because he wasn't teaching very many people.

It was rare, he said, to see anybody join the church and not a whole family. He got a new companion and this

guy was a brand new missionary. He was not just fresh in the mission, he was

fresh in the church. He was ready to convert people he thought he had converted other aifen says all the

flight attendants on the plane from New York to Germany he said within a couple of days of his arrival, I was

called into a meeting in another city, so I had to leave him with another

inexperienced missionary and I went with's missionary's companion to this city for this meeting.

He said, I got back late. So the next morning I asked him how the day was.

He broke into a big smile and said that he had found a family that would

surely join the church. Like I told you before he said it was rare to see anybody

joined the church let alone an entire family. He says I asked him for more details but he had

forgotten to write down the name or the address. All he could remember was that the family lived on the top floor of a big apartment's house.

Great, he said as he contemplated all those flights of stairs. He explained that he knew so little German that he had just

exchanged a few words with the woman who answered the door but he did say she

wanted us to come back and he wanted us to go find her that day.

I explained to him that the people who do not slam the door in our face are not necessarily planning to join the church.

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