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

John we are in Alma 36 37 and 38 today in chapter 36 in

chapter 36, 37 and 38 today. In chapter 36, Alma tells the story of his conversion and I have a story for you.

I heard this story the very first time and I looked into it and found a lot more details from

Joseph B. Werthlin from way back in 2006. He tells the story of Henry de

Leer. Henry de laer was late to a horse auction one day way back in 1956.

All the good horses had been sold and the few that were still there were old and the company was going to probably salvage them.

I don't know if you know what salvaging a horse looks like, John.

Might not be what we think it is.

Yeah, but it sounds pretty bad. Yeah.

Harry was a horse master at a local girl school. He saw this horse. It's described as an

uncared for graygelding with ugly-looking wounds on its legs.

The animal still bore the marks of a heavy work harness, had a hard life.

All these scars had a hard life, all these scars had a hard life, but Harry figured he's a pretty cheap horse so I'll buy him.

He bought him for 80 bucks. By the time he gets the horse home, he covered in snow so Harry's children named him

Snowman. John listen to this Snowman ends up being a pretty good horse the girls

like to ride him he was steady and he didn't startle.

And he made rapid improvement as a workhorse. In fact, a neighbor said, I'll pay $160 for it.

Harry's excited, right? He turned around an $80 horse into $160 horse, but the problem

is, John, that Snowman goes to the neighbor's house but ends up every day back at Harry's property.

Harry brings him back to the neighbor and says,

you ought to close your gates and get your fences fixed because

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