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Episode Date: January 18, 2024

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Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. We're doing a single story out of each week's lesson this year. John, we're in first Nephi 14 today, and I want to show you a verse, verse 12, and I'm going to tell you a story. Nephi says, I see the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few. It's an interesting point right there where you wanted to say its numbers were great and huge. He says its numbers were few. It reminds me of Jacob five. He called the servants and they were few. They're open for a different, you're open for a different word. I thought about this word and I want to share with you a story and maybe bring out this idea of It's okay to be one of the few

Here's the story John. I have a friend named Phil Phil Reschki who told me a story about his brother Dave They were living in Colorado where Phil said Dave his older brother was really popular and a student body officer and really Loved by the high school and Phil was a sophomore, you a younger one, kind of the ones that in the background sometimes. He said it was after a football game where everybody went to this big pizza place and standing room only. Everybody in the high school kind of floods this pizza joint after a game. Phil said at one point, a cheerleader had said, Hey, everyone, everyone listen to me. And so the place got quiet. And everyone's looking up at this girl. And she said, everyone,

it's Dave Reschke's 18th birthday today. We want to celebrate. He's an adult or something like that. And at that time, I don't know the laws, John, but you could drink alcohol when you turn 18. One of the servers brings out a huge frosty mug of beer and everybody's watching and they sing happy birthday. And right at the end of the song, they hand this mug of beer to Dave and Phil is sitting at a booth the way's away and he's just watching and knowing that he and his brother are the only members of the church

in this restaurant. And he's watching him. And he said, my brother stood up and held this mug up really high with a big smile on his face and filled for a second thought. Oh, no. Is he going to drink it? He is. He can drink this. And he said, my brother was such confidence stood up and said, And he said my brother was such confidence stood up and said, you guys, thank you so much for remembering my birthday He said, you know, I love you and you know that I love this school and everybody's cheering Woo, and he said, but you know me better than that and He sat it down on the table and went back to what he was doing, went back to chatting and having a great time. And Phil told me he said, I was sitting in that booth going, I know now who I want

to be. Phil told me on the way home. He asked his brother. He said, Dave, I thought you were going to drink that for a second. He said, Dave got after him. And he said, I thought you knew me better than that too. Yeah. He said, Phil, I didn't make that decision tonight. You need to make decisions long before those moments come. When I read that verse, I saw the saints and their numbers were few. We encourage all of our listeners, you might be alone, but you'll be okay. You're not truly alone. It reminds me of the Old Testament story. They'd be with us or more than they'd be with them. You can't see them, but we're okay. But they're there.

Beautiful. Join us next week. We'll be back for another follow him favorites, stories. you