Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Mohawk Boy • followHIM Favorites • Mar 11- Mar 17 • Come Follow Me

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

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Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. John and I are bringing out a single story from this week's lesson. John, we're in second, you fight 26 through 30 and you told me you have a great story, so I'm going to turn it over to you. My wife and I were newlyweds. We were called immediately to be Sunday School teachers for the teenagers. We were thrilled with that calling. We met our students and everything.

I can't remember how many weeks, how many months into with that calling. We met our students and everything. I can't remember how many weeks, how many months into our new calling. A kid came in that we didn't recognize, sat down in the class and he had a bright red Mohawk and some piercings and whatever. And I tossed whatever lesson that I thought I had. And I spent the time on that. There's a God who loves us and he's real and John I

gotta tell you that I love that like I wish I could I wish I could pull that off right like well not off his head but like my own head I wish I could put it on my own I don't know there's just something about the color I like it yeah it was kind of bright we didn't need to turn on the lights in the room it was intense. And the next week, he came back. Awesome. And again, I just thought I'm gonna stay on this other lesson. I started to learn more about what was going on. And this time his Mohawk was Kelly Green. Totally. Kelly Green. Okay. Yeah, Kelly Green, Brad Green. I just kept telling him,

we're so glad you're here. So glad you've come to our ward and really glad to have you really want to make sure you feel welcome and everything. And the next week he came back and his mohawk hank. It was leopard skin. I don't know how he did that. I know it doesn't come out of the bottle that way. I don't know how he did that. Kelly Green to leopard skin to leopard skin.

And he was there and we're so glad you're here. Just really want to make feel welcome and thanks for being here. And and the. And he was there. And hey, we're so glad you're here. Just really want to make Phil welcome and thanks for being here. And the next week he was gone. I didn't know what to say, but I said to my teenage students there, listen you guys, it's one thing if the teacher is all nice and loving and welcoming, but he's at your high school. And I don't know who's in your friend group, but you guys, if we don't put our arms around him literally figuratively we will never see him again you guys have to have got to do this and I'm so proud of them because they did and he came again and he came again and again and I never ever got out addressing

grooming lesson or anything like that I just kept doing what we were doing and the other hair grew out kind of a natural brown shade. The piercings came out. I never said anything. It was awesome. He became my home teaching companion. And what I just, what I love about this was there's these lines in second E526 that are repeated. I feel like Nephi saying, are you getting this message? Cause he keeps saying the same thing over and over again. Second Nephi 26-24, he doth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world, for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life, that he may draw amen unto him. Wherefore he commanded none that they shall not partake of the salvation. Okay, first time. Second time. Verse 25, that he cried to any saying, Depart from me, Behold I say unto you, Nay, he saith,

Come unto me, all ye ends of the earth by milk and honey, without money and without price." Now he's going to say it again. Third time, hath he commanded any they should depart out of the synagogues or out of the houses of worship, behold I say unto you, Nay. Okay, fourth time. Verse 27, hath he commanded any that they should not partake of his salvation? Behold I say unto nay he hath given it free for all men and hath commanded his people that they should

persuade all men to repentance. Fifth time verse 28. Behold hath the Lord commanded any that they should not partake of his goodness. Behold I say unto you nay. I feel like he's trying to tell us something John. It seems like he's trying to get through to us here, right? And I just love that idea. And I read it four times and I go, I think Nephi's trying to say that the Lord never said, go away. And then I was reading Hank in 3rd Nephi,

which I know you do too all the time. Jesus comes physically in 3rd Nephi chapter 11. They hear a voice before that. But in 3 Nephi 11, he's there. He teaches them in 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. He says, I have to go. They beg him to stay with their eyes. So he does. And in 3 Nephi 18, 25, he says this, you ready for this? And you see that I have commanded that none of you should go away, but rather have commanded that you should come unto me that ye might feel and see. Even so shall ye do unto the world.

And I thought, that's where Jesus comes back. And after all that day says, did you notice I never told anyone to go away, but I told them to come and see and do that to the world. Be that way with the world. That's why I'm so proud of my students because that is exactly what they did. That's fantastic. What a great story.

Sometimes we don't tell people to go away, right? Like that we would never do that. But sometimes by the our tone and the way we treat people, we're kind of saying, we don't really care if you're here. What a great lesson. What a great Sunday school class you had. I was so proud of him because I thought,

it's one thing if the old guy teacher is this way, but you guys have to do this. And I don't know who your friend group is at your school or what you think it is, you've got to do this. This is so important and they did they were wonderful. So, so I loved my teenage students. One day an Apostle's gonna stand up in general conference and say I was that boy. The Leopard skin Mohawk.

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