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Episode Date: September 25, 2025

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Hey, welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson. John, Doctor in Covenants 10 and 110, the Curtland Temple. You've told me you have a story for these two sections. Yeah, and it's more of a way to think about how the temple can bless us. 109 was the dedicatory prayer. 110 was the appearance of the Savior afterwards. Do you remember, Hank, a sister Ardeth Cap?

I'm going to guess General Young Women's President. General Young Women's President, she came up with a young women theme, the values that have been through inspiration, updated and modified a little bit for a worldwide church. Her sister, Sharon Green Larson, was in the Young Women General Presidency. She told the best story about this young woman. She said, her name is not Heather, but I'm going to call her Heather. Heather goes to this party, she said. she gets there she walks in everything's fine for a while then the music gets worse the exact word sister larshan shared was friends started disappearing into darkened rooms suddenly heather gets that

feeling hank that we've all talked about i shouldn't be here okay this isn't a holy place what do i do she said i had to make a choice either these people or my standards i couldn't have both i knew i didn't want what I was hearing and the movies that were playing to get in my thoughts, no matter how much I wanted to be with these popular people. I knew I didn't belong there. She said, I called my mom. That's an embarrassing call. What's mom going to say? Or dad, oh, honey, just watch all the evil, but don't participate. No, probably not. So she says, mom's on her way. I go to the front door. She's probably gone, am I wrong? Should I just stay? What should I do? I don't know where this took place, Hank, but you can probably think of a few places where it could have been.

She looks out the window, and there is the temple gleaming on the hillside. She said, this was the Lord saying to Heather, you're making the right decision. Hank, she looks out the window and sees America First Credit Union. I don't think the same story happens. Yeah. I don't think she's going, you know, I should get a home equity loaded only 8.9% APR on a proof credit. But she saw the temple, she had that feeling, that's my destination, that's where I want to end up, that's what I want life to mean. She said, that's the way the Lord was saying, yep, you're doing the right thing.

It just reminded me, Hank, of Elder Ballard saying, if you can't go to the temple, just go to the grounds. If you can't go in one day, just go to the grounds and walk around and feel the spirit of that place. That story just reminded me of those sections. Yeah, that's fantastic. Sometimes you have to go home without friends, but with the Holy Ghost. Yeah. Right? You don't want to go home with friends without the Holy Ghost.

Thanks for saying it that way. Hank, the Holy Ghost is the best friend in the world. And if your best friend leaves the party, go with him. Go with him. That moment, she's probably thinking, maybe I'm overdueing this. And then to see the temple, no, I'm good. Nope, nope, I'm good. Mom, come get me.

Awesome. Yeah, come get me and take me out for ice cream. Yeah. Hey, we hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with Dr. Anthony Sweat this week on sections 109 and 110. Like we said, he's incredible.

He walks us through these sections and points out beautiful, beautiful doctrines along the way. Then come back here next week. We'll do another following favorite.