Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single

story to go with each week's lesson. John we are in Alma 32 through 35. Faith, the seed growing into a tree. When I was a new

seminary teacher, a wonderful talk was published called Weed Your

brain, grow your testimony by Talk was published called Weed Your Brain, Grow Your Testimony by John by the way still one of my favorite

talks of all time and that's not just because we're friends now. I loved that talk I heard it given live I bought the CD I still think you can get it at

desra at book.com it really is a life-changing talk John so what stories did you

tell there oh my goodness there's so, but let me just tell you, I bought a house in South Provo,

I couldn't seem to find a wife, I thought maybe if I get a mortgage, I'll be more attractive, and I wasn't, but now I had a mortgage. I moved to this house and there's this backyard and the weeds are about five feet tall.

I went to Ernst's Home Center that's going back. I bought some garden tools and I thought this is going to take me a couple

hours. Took me a couple of weeks. Yeah. Get those weeds out because they were deep and oh my goodness next door my neighbors had a Norwegian

elkown don't know why I remember that he would not stop barking all day long I'm out there weeding. I'm tried everything. I'm trying to scare him trying to be nice to him and finally I bought some dog biscuits and I chucked one over the fence and he was quiet for like three minutes.

Then so ungrateful came right back and started barking his head off at me.

I thought, do you ever get a horse? You ever lose your voice? And then I I thought hey and I crumpled up the dog

biscuits into a fine powder and I chucked it over the fence and that kept him

busy for 20 minutes he sniffed around looking for pieces

and it was a great moment in my life when I thought I am smarter than a dog but I

finally got all those weeds out and now Hank what's going to happen all those weeds are out if I just do nothing what's going to happen?

Oh absolutely it won't take long. They'll come right back again. And I'll tell you I feel like I learned

more lessons thinking about these agricultural stories and parables in the

scriptures then I would have just reading them over and over again.

And so these lessons are going to sound really, duh, really elementary, but let me give you some of them I learned from that.

Number one, if you want good things in your garden or in your life you have to

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