followHIM - How can we "Come and see"? • follow HIM Favorites • Jan. 16 - Jan. 22

Episode Date: January 12, 2023

Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.Show Notes (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese): https://followhim.coFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannelThanks to the followHIM team:Shannon Sorensen: Executive Producer, SponsorsDavid & Verla Sorensen: SponsorsDr. Hank Smith: Co-hostJohn Bytheway: Co-hostDavid Perry: ProducerKyle Nelson: Marketing, SponsorLisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show NotesJamie Neilson: Social Media, Graphic DesignWill Stoughton: Video EditorKrystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, WebsiteAriel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-piano

Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the amazing John, by the way. Follow Him Favorites. We're these two disciples of John the Baptist. One of them turns out to be Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. They're following him because John the Baptist said, that's the Lamb of God. So they're following him. And he turns around and says, what seek ye? And they said, where do you live? It's kind of a funny question. Where dwellest thou? And then he answers, come come and see this is one of the first things we hear from jesus during his ministry come and see how do we do that today john how do we come and see oh there's so many things i like about that it wasn't just sit down i'm going to talk to you but it was come and see for yourself and reminds me of nephi wanting to

see what his father lehi saw and the angel comes and he says, look, look, there's, I think there's 13 different look things. He just shows Nephi. And I just have a friend who had an experience with that come and see that was so good. You can't see this because the camera's pointing this way. But if I turned it around, looked up, you would see a picture of my friend, Derek O'Malley and me are standing in front of an F-16. And that was one super fun day in my whole life when I got to go up in an F-16 and went past Mach 1. That was something I'd never done before, even in my car. And how did Brother O'Malley join the church? Was he born at church? No, he was driving northbound on I-15

and saw a billboard with a picture of the temple and three words. Guess what words, Hank? Come and see. Come and see. And he went down to Temple Square and walked into the visitor center, walked into that room

where that beautiful Christus statue is. I can't remember exactly how he described it, but as I need to look into this, he felt something there, come and see. And he came and he not only saw, but he felt and he wondered and he investigated the church and became a member of the church. I think brother O'Malley now is like a general. That's awesome. I get to text him sometimes because you're really close with somebody when they invite you to sit in the back seat of their F-16.

Yeah. How many times did you throw up on that? I only threw up three times, Hank. I was so tough. I love that Jesus would use such simple phrase. Just come and see. And we could use it too, don't you think? In our efforts to be a missionary, when you're talking with your friends saying, what do you guys do in your

church? Yeah. I went to young men's and young women's last night. I went to our activity or I went to sacrament meeting and someone's automatically, what's that? Come and see. Come and see. Yeah. You're invited. Do you have any friends here? Would you like to have a couple of hundred more? Come and see. I love it. So those words of Jesus, I think so simple, but so I can tell you about it, but come and see. And then you'll not only hear,

but you'll feel and you'll receive impressions. So yeah, there are a lot of levels we can look at that. But I love that one of my friends had an experience with a billboard that just said, come and see. That's awesome. And we find out one of those disciples is Andrew and he immediately goes, finds his brother and says, I have seen, I have seen now you come and see. We found the Messiah.

We found the Messiah. You've got to come and see this. So we hope that all of you, anybody listening, come and see when it comes to anything that has to do with the Lord. We hope you'll come and see our podcast, the full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. We think you'll like what you see when you come on over and join us there

and then join us next week for another Follow Him Favorites. Thank you.