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Welcome back everyone to another episode of On the Path.
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We're here again with another guest who Jackson is going to introduce for us this week.
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Yep, this is Devon Hill.
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He's from Orham, Utah.
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He is a teammate of mine on the Southern Virginia football team, plays cornerback.
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And yeah, Devon, tell us a little bit more about yourself, Dave.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm from Orham, Utah, which is actually where you're from as well.
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This is true.
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So but I've grew up there throughout my life.
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I have two older brothers, one younger brother, and and I also served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Texas Dallas East mission.
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And just like you said, I've played football at Orm High School.
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And now I'm here playing Southern Virginia, and it's been it's been fun.
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Heck yeah, you are, dude.
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Thank you.
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Heck yeah.
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Exciting, man.
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Happy to have you.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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I'm gonna take a second.
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Um thanks to Alan for coming and joining us today, first of all.
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Uh we're happy to have him.
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Uh he's a really awesome guy.
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I've heard really good things about him.
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Um, but I'm gonna take a second to introduce our theme for this week that we're gonna be discussing with Alan.
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And so last week in my institute class, we were talking about miracles and the miracles that Jesus Christ has performed throughout his life, and he performed many, as we all know.
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Um but one stuck out specifically to me, and it's the miracle of him walking on water.
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And it's not only the fact that Jesus is walking on water, like obviously that's insane, that's amazing.
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Um, but it's the faith that Peter had to step out onto the water as well.
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But there's also that moment when Peter started to doubt and he fell into the water.
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So we're gonna we're gonna read those scriptures and then we're gonna talk about them together today.
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So I'll read them.
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Um and we'll be reading in Matthew chapter 14.
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I'm gonna read verses 25 to 31.
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Um And it says, And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.
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But straight straight away Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid.
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And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
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And he said, Come.
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And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
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But when he saw the wind boistro boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
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And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him, and said unto him, Oh, O thou of little faith, where didst thou doubt?
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So, in these in these verses there's lots of lessons to be learned.
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Um I'd like for us to kind of uh stick on verse uh 27, kind of before Peter, uh just where it says, Be of good cheer, it is I be not afraid.
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And so one of my favorite things um or one of my favorite phrases in the book or in the book of Mormon, the Bible, and whatever scripture it is, is either fear not or be not afraid.
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Um, in your life in in sports, whatever it may be, when have you had a moment where you took that and like used it and applied it into your life was be not afraid, fear not?
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Yeah, um, I mean honestly, I I saw it a lot in in sports.
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Um obviously playing playing corner is probably the hardest position, in my opinion, either corner or quarterback.
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But you can be able to do your job throughout the whole the whole game, and you make one mistake and it could lose lose the game.
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Um But I think one thing that has helped me to be able to not be afraid in times of hardship or where our circumstances are um very very difficult is being very prepared in the temporal and spiritual things.
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So in football, I it's very important that we be prepared of who we are facing and to be able to see the scattering reports and watch a lot of film and so that when there is a situation where it's down to the line of whoever is gonna, you know, win, um the last minutes, then you know, you're you are prepared.
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You won't be afraid, right?
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And that's just in the in the gospel, right?
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Um especially on my mission.
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Um there were times where especially I served in Texas and there was lots of Bible bashers, and you feel like you you feel like you feel like you need to be very prepared of to be able to bash them, or feel like you need to prepare to be able to know what to say.
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I remember my very first lesson I had on my mission, um, and you know, I felt like I was I was prepared, but and then my before the lesson, my trainer's like, okay, you're gonna teach about faith and repentance.
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And when he said that, I'm like, wait, what's what's faith and repentance again?
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Like I I was going through, like, preach my gospel, I was like, okay, like what is it again?
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And we go into the meeting, and I'm like, uh, I don't know what to say.
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But then when it was my turn to like speak, one thing that I was prepared was was being able to rely on my savior and to especially rely on the Holy Ghost as my constant companionship and to be my mouthpiece.
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And I remember when when I just started to speak, like I knew that it was it was right, and the person that we were teaching hit it he he understood what faith and repentance was, and and that was like I think that was the the huge turning point of my mission was being able to trust in in the savior in in times of difficulties.
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Um whether that be on the mission or through sports or through school, like it's it's very important to make sure that we are always having the spirit with us.
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Even if we feel like we are not prepared or not, as long as we have the spirit, we can be able to know that we can find those miracles.
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Yeah, I love that.
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Uh it reminds me of uh it's funny you bring her preach my gospel because you know, even two years after I've returned home from my mission, I find you know, I find myself in you know life's path and the lessons I've learned just from preaching my gospel alone, right?
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But anyways, to the point, um President Nelson talks about like um Captain Moroni and you know like how the Lamanites were gonna come like destroy all different parts of the land of of Nephi or whatever it is that they lived at at the time.
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And instead of just you know um just relying on prayer and and things like that, it says that Moroni like prepared the people and like built walls and all these other things, right?
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And President Nelson talks about how that needs to be like our like mantra in these last days, right?
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Not like be like super fearful and like but be prepared, right?
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It's like it's like the story or the parable of like the the virgins and like the the lamps and the oil, right?
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It's like you gotta have oil in your lamp, right?
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You don't wanna be the individuals that are uh kicked out or not let into the the wedding because of you know you didn't have oil in your lamp, right?
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And you know that comes from you know it's the primary answers, but you know, it's easy on our missions, yeah, right, to just to like sit there and be like, yeah, I can never lose these habits.
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Bro, it's been two years now.
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It's it's crazy how how hard it is sometimes.
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Oh, for sure, dude.
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Like, like every time I hear like be prepared, I'm like, I wish I had that name tag on, bro.
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God's talking, dude.
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I remember giving a talk just like a few months ago, and I'm like, man, this is not the same.
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This is not the same.
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I'm like, oh, I actually have to try now.
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The spirit's not clicking, but I just one thing that that stuck out to me was like sometimes we we need to make sure that we do our part because that's what the Lord asked us to do.
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Like He wants us to do as much as we can, and once we do that, we can be able to know that He'll provide us the way.
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You know?
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I actually had a funny experience this last Sunday um talking about being prepared.
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Uh so I'm in the bishopric in our YSA, and it's it's it's my it's my month to conduct, so you know, I have my speakers, I text them during the week, I was like, hey, here's your reminder, like you're speaking on Sunday.
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Um didn't speak, maybe maybe next month.
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Um but but I'm sitting there, church starts at 10:30, it's 1025, and none of my speakers have shown up.
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And I'm sitting there just freaking out.
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I'm like, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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The first counselor instead present sitting next to me.
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He's like, hey, the high councilman, if you go talk to him, he'll give a talk.
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Like, I don't want to do that.
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So I like quickly text all of them.
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I'm like, are you guys coming?
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Like, I need some help, please.
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But like, it was probably one of those moments where it's like they knew they told me they were gonna come, like I need to calm down and just be not afraid, right?
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Right.
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And 1028, the first one walks in, a minute after the next one walks in, and then two minutes later, the last one he texts me, he says, I'm 20 seconds away, I'll be there.
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Like, alright, I'm starting the meeting.
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So they all showed up.
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Um, but again, later that meeting, they all finished up their talks, and we still had 15 minutes, and I was like, crap, now I have to get up.
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And I just got up and shared this little thought, like this thought that's been stuck in my mind, talking about how God loves us enough to hurt us, right?
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Um, so I just shared a little thought on that for five minutes, and it ended up being okay, right?
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I just was stressed.
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I was worried that nobody was gonna show up and I was gonna have to talk for 45 minutes, but but you know, it's one of those things it's like, you know, when you're prepared and you send the word out like other like God will help you, right?
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He'll bless you and he'll make sure everything's okay.
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So I might have been stressed for five minutes, but everything worked out and I was okay.
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Um but yeah, it's kinda it's hard.
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It's not always easy to be prepared.
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Like if you come from home from a mission and maybe you fall out of some habits, maybe you keep some, and it's just it's you you stress over it, but overall, as long as you're keeping something, you're staying consistent in something, the Lord will bless you in certain ways.
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Um but let's let's talk a little bit about Peter now and his his uh his falling into the water, right?
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So we saw that he was prepared, right?
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He had gone through so many things, he's watched, witnessed so many miracles, he knew that Jesus was the Christ, he was the Messiah, he was the chosen one.
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But there was still something that grabbed his attention and started to fall into the water.
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Um I mean we saw that Jesus immediately saved him and says that very specifically in the scriptures immediately that he saved him, but he he doubted for a second, and it's it's interesting to think that Peter, one of the closest ones to Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry, doubted walking on water, being there with the Lord.
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So it's like I don't know what what what do you guys think about that?
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What are your your thoughts on those scriptures, on those verses?
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Um I just really think it's it's very important to think celestial, right?
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Because Peter, when he was walking on water, he was thinking celestial, his his focus was towards on Jesus Christ.
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That's part of thinking celestial.
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But when we get caught up in in the worldly things, which we all do, especially me, either the praise of the world or you know, the materialistic things, it can draw us away from from our savior.
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And when times do get hard, it it can get very foggy on where our resources are at.
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That's that's the blessing of being able to be on the mission, right?
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Because when you come home, when we do feel like we have fallen back, we know where our sources, even though we feel like life is, you know, that cloud comes in whenever we focus on temporal things or or the the worldly things, right?
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But we can be able to always know that where our main source is of light, which is which is Jesus Christ.
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And for me, it's to be able to focus my on my Savior at all times, whenever I feel like I have fallen back, is ask myself if I've if I'm doing the little things, right?
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Because just like those um that scripture in the Book of Mormon, small things can by small and simple By small and simple things can great things be brought to pass.
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And I truly believe that and have seen it in my life, and and it's just you know, saying your morning prayers, nightly prayers, and deciding your scriptures like it just always makes a huge difference.
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Always makes a huge difference and helps us to know that whenever we are, you know, have fallen back or feel like we we are like Peter and fell through the water, we can be able to look up and call upon our Savior and he'll his arm of mercy is always extended towards us.
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That's the beautiful thing.
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Um that he's always inviting us to come onto him, always inviting us to change and to be better.
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Because he sees our full potential and and we need him to be able to help ourselves to know what our full potential is um spiritually and and yeah.
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Yeah.
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I love what you said, you quoted I think it's in 2 Ephi, uh, where he says like mine arm of mercy is extended towards towards you, right?
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You know, with Peter the past six months I've I've had many different uh learning experiences from the perspective of of Peter, right?
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And one of them, along with um, I don't want to call it a chastising experience, but a learning experience, right, from falling into the water um after he was walking, was uh when he denied the savior three times, right?
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Uh and then obviously fast forward to what was it, three years later, right?
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The saviors, um, at this point from the perspective of the apostles, he's dead and he's gone, right?
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Like we they have no idea where he's at, they don't know what's going on, and so what do they do?
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They return to their nets and they start fishing, um, as we all know.
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And fast forward, right?
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They see a figure off in the distance, right?
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And they're like, Who is this who's who's this guy telling us to just cast our net on the other side?
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You think we haven't thought of that?
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Like, what do you mean?
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And what do they do, right?
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They they give it a shot and they they do it, and it says like they they can't even fit it into the boat, right?
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Yeah, and then I think it's Peter that like recognizes that it's like the Lord.
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So they swim out, right?
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And you know, then they have that iconic, like I hate using the word iconic, that's not the right word.
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This unforgettable lesson, right, with the savior as they're eating the fish.
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You know, they're they're laughing, they're having a good time, and then the savior being, you know, the savior turns to Peter and he's like, lovest thou me more than these, right?
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And then Peter, as we know, is like, yay Lord, like thou knowest that I love thee.
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And then he repeats that three times, right?
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And what what I love about that whole lesson, right, relating it back to what you were saying, Ben, and what you were saying as well, Dallin, as far as fear, failure, and then redemption through the savior, right?
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When I think of my favorite attributes of the savior, my one of my favorite names is Redeemer and Advocate.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And specifically with the story, Redeemer, because like we often think, right, like it is on us.
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Our salvation is on us, right?
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In a sense, because of agency, for sure.
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Like we we we get to choose.
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But at the same time, like there's a reason why it says in the scriptures, like he's the author and finisher of our faith.
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Meaning, once we make those covenants, once, like Peter, we are bound to him, like, and we completely give our will to him, like our our destiny is in our hands at that point.
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And the point I'm trying to get at is it's taken me and will take me a lifetime, but I'm I'm starting to feel little nudges from the spirit to help me really understand what grace really means, right?
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It's it's not it's not what we think as okay, if I do everything I can, then the savior helps me out, right?
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It's it's no, once I've exercised faith in him, like then his arm of mercy is is extended towards us, right?
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And the same thing with Peter right here, right?
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The savior didn't necessarily punish him, right?
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Like the punishment was like you can imagine how guilty that dude felt.
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Like, yeah, you already felt the punishment, he already felt it, man.
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Yeah, he already felt it.
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The absence of the spirit, like for sure, right?
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And instead of the savior in that moment telling Peter, like, you're gonna deny me three times.
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Like, and like, you know, to us the savior could have been like, Yep, so therefore, like, why would I have you in my circle, right?
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Like, it didn't come as a surprise to him.
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Not and like, I think we need to understand that ourselves, right?
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Like, like, I guarantee you the savior knew that Peter was gonna fall in the water.
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Yeah, like, and it's not a surprise to him, right?
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And so when he asked him that question, oh ye a little faith, like it wasn't the savior saying, I'm surprised.
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Like it was it was for Peter.
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It was like it was like, don't you understand that I'm here?
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Like, no matter what, and I think that's a lesson that I'm learning is like, you know, I feel guilty all the time.
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Like, just to be open, like I feel guilty all the time for like, gosh, I must have betrayed him, like I can only imagine how he feels.
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Like, and then you read in the scriptures, like this, this not to be like crude, but this man, this dude is all knowing, like, and here we are putting a judgment and something finite on something that's infinite, and someone that's infinite, right?
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Yeah, and it's just so beautiful to like be taught by the Spirit and to really see like how our loving Heavenly Father and Savior like really interact with us.
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Yeah, no, that's super awesome.
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I love those points that you guys make.
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Um the Lord really is always there for us, He loves us and truly cares for us.
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Um I kind of want to talk more about this uh the preparation that we talked about before.
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And I'd like to hear Allen's uh point of view or his his explanation of as an athlete, as a student, as a student athlete, um how are you able to prepare yourself spiritually to take on the day, not just in classes, um, but also on the football field.
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Like what are you able to do or what do you do to prepare for for these situations?
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So I think one thing to say is that Southern Virginia is such a an amazing environment to be able to see those spiritual aspects of those miracles and and to be able to be prepared, right?
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One thing that I've really learned on the mission that I will forever apply into My daily life is to be able to serve others.
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Like find the one, seek the one, right?
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Just like Russell and Nelson.
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Um I always in my morning prayers, I always ask Heavenly Father to bless me with opportunities to serve the one, or to find the one, or to seek the one, whoever it may be.
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And, you know, and being able to focus on others instead of yourself is the true medicine of all things.
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And I've truly seen it on the mission, and especially right now in my life, that, you know, nobody, you know, it's not about you.
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It's not about you.
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But once we figure out that we are here to serve others, just like Jesus Christ, that's that was his whole divine mission was to serve others.
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And that's all he did.
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And he lived a perfect life.
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And if he wants us to strive to live a perfect life, we should be able to serve others as one of our number one priorities.
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And it's it doesn't have to be big.
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Um it could just simply say, you know, just say hi to someone that you don't know and just compliment someone.
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And I've truly seen a huge change ever since I've done that.
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And I think, you know, and Southern Virginia is a beautiful opportunity to exercise that the type of environment that you are around with, with others who are also striving to serve others and who are also disciples of Jesus Christ.
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And it's helped me to find a lot of joy and and helped me remember like what my purpose is, right?
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And who I am as a person and who I identify.
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I'm not a football player, I'm not a you know, I'm not a a classmate, I'm not, you know, I'm not a guy just on this podcast, like I'm I'm a child of God, right?
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And so once we start focusing on others and to be able to serve one another, then we can be able to know that you know what our true identity is.
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And that's what helped has helped me to always be prepared for for whatever, right?
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If somebody needs help on on the road or or with homework, it it creates a lot of friendship as well.
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Like I've made a whole lot of friendship around here at Southern Virginia, and not only it it's blessed me and my life, and I'm I'm sure it's blessed others to be able to know that they are seen, right?
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Because we live in a fallen world and we live in a world where it's you know it's it's very lonely, right?
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We experience lots of loneliness, especially through social media, and feel like we're we're not enough.
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But when we start being able to focus on others, we can be able to see that, so yeah.
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I I love that.
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It's it's pretty cool to see how we are able to find solace in daily well, I guess President Nelson just called it spiritual momentum, really.
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Yeah.
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Like, yeah, like service is definitely I don't know, man.
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Like, I wish there was a different word for service because it makes it sound so like I don't know, like you know what I mean?
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Like when like I feel like like there's a worldly idea to the term service, yeah.
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And when I hear like anyone who has who's a Christian or like make covenants with the savior, yeah, and they use the term service, I think it's really like mourn with those that mourn, comfort those that sin and need of comfort, right?
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Like it's that Christ-like love that you're talking about.
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Yeah, and you're you're a great example of that, dude.
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Like it's been cool to see like as your teammate and shout out Todd Nuttle back at home, right?
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Back in the 801.
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801, baby.
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This one's really Todd.
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No, dude, like hearing hearing him and like some of your other peers like talk about like you as just an individual disciple, like for sure, dude.
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Like it's there's no coincidence that you're here and like you know, definitely, definitely one of the Lord's instruments and in helping others for sure, dude.
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So I yeah, I can I can testify that what my companion has said is true.
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I appreciate you, bro.
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For sure.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Um so we're gonna wrap things up here a little bit, but Don, I'm gonna throw you on the spot one last time.
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Alright, sweet.
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Um, so kind of our theme of this season, season two of On the Path, is to love, share, and invite.
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What is something you would like to invite our listeners to do in the next week?
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Ooh.
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That's a that's a big, that's a big one.
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You're timed too.
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Um I think I would love to invite y'all.
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I mean, I guess just what we've been talking about is to be able to find the one.
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Um not only find the one, seek the one, and nourish the one.
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Um because it's truly helped me to step back from my reality of life and to be able to focus on others and to be able to see the true blessing and and the joy that comes with it.
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Um so yeah.
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So yeah, that's the find the one.
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Find the one.
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Find the one.
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Awesome.
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I love it.
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Well, Dal, thanks for coming on, man.
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Appreciate you guys.
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This is this is amazing.
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We love you.
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So let's get it dub this weekend, yeah.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it, man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, thanks everyone again for tuning in to another episode.
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Thanks again to Dalin for joining us for this one.
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Um, like he said, we invite you guys to find the one.
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Find the one that's feels lonely, lost, confused.
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Um, help them know that we love them, you love them, and that the Lord loves them as well.
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Um, Jesus Christ is there for each and every one of us, no matter what situation we're in in our lives right now.
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Um but make sure you share this with friends, family, share this with whoever needs to hear it, whoever needs an uplifting message this week.
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And um continue to check the the the Instagram account, uh check our check our social medias for for upcoming um episodes, for for updates throughout the week.
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Um but yeah, thank you again for everyone, uh, for your continued support and and everything.
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And always remember everyone to stay on the path.
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Jesus loves you.
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Jesus loves you.
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Welcome back everyone to another episode of On the Path.
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We're here again with another guest who Jackson is going to introduce for us this week.
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Yep, this is Devon Hill.
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He's from Orham, Utah.
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He is a teammate of mine on the Southern Virginia football team, plays cornerback.
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And yeah, Devon, tell us a little bit more about yourself, Dave.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm from Orham, Utah, which is actually where you're from as well.
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This is true.
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So but I've grew up there throughout my life.
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I have two older brothers, one younger brother, and and I also served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Texas Dallas East mission.
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And just like you said, I've played football at Orm High School.
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And now I'm here playing Southern Virginia, and it's been it's been fun.
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Heck yeah, you are, dude.
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Thank you.
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Heck yeah.
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Exciting, man.
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Happy to have you.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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I'm gonna take a second.
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Um thanks to Alan for coming and joining us today, first of all.
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Uh we're happy to have him.
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Uh he's a really awesome guy.
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I've heard really good things about him.
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Um, but I'm gonna take a second to introduce our theme for this week that we're gonna be discussing with Alan.
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And so last week in my institute class, we were talking about miracles and the miracles that Jesus Christ has performed throughout his life, and he performed many, as we all know.
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Um but one stuck out specifically to me, and it's the miracle of him walking on water.
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And it's not only the fact that Jesus is walking on water, like obviously that's insane, that's amazing.
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Um, but it's the faith that Peter had to step out onto the water as well.
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But there's also that moment when Peter started to doubt and he fell into the water.
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So we're gonna we're gonna read those scriptures and then we're gonna talk about them together today.
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So I'll read them.
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Um and we'll be reading in Matthew chapter 14.
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I'm gonna read verses 25 to 31.
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Um And it says, And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.
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But straight straight away Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid.
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And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
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And he said, Come.
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And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
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But when he saw the wind boistro boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
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And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him, and said unto him, Oh, O thou of little faith, where didst thou doubt?
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So, in these in these verses there's lots of lessons to be learned.
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Um I'd like for us to kind of uh stick on verse uh 27, kind of before Peter, uh just where it says, Be of good cheer, it is I be not afraid.
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And so one of my favorite things um or one of my favorite phrases in the book or in the book of Mormon, the Bible, and whatever scripture it is, is either fear not or be not afraid.
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Um, in your life in in sports, whatever it may be, when have you had a moment where you took that and like used it and applied it into your life was be not afraid, fear not?
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Yeah, um, I mean honestly, I I saw it a lot in in sports.
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Um obviously playing playing corner is probably the hardest position, in my opinion, either corner or quarterback.
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But you can be able to do your job throughout the whole the whole game, and you make one mistake and it could lose lose the game.
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Um But I think one thing that has helped me to be able to not be afraid in times of hardship or where our circumstances are um very very difficult is being very prepared in the temporal and spiritual things.
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So in football, I it's very important that we be prepared of who we are facing and to be able to see the scattering reports and watch a lot of film and so that when there is a situation where it's down to the line of whoever is gonna, you know, win, um the last minutes, then you know, you're you are prepared.
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You won't be afraid, right?
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And that's just in the in the gospel, right?
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Um especially on my mission.
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Um there were times where especially I served in Texas and there was lots of Bible bashers, and you feel like you you feel like you feel like you need to be very prepared of to be able to bash them, or feel like you need to prepare to be able to know what to say.
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I remember my very first lesson I had on my mission, um, and you know, I felt like I was I was prepared, but and then my before the lesson, my trainer's like, okay, you're gonna teach about faith and repentance.
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And when he said that, I'm like, wait, what's what's faith and repentance again?
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Like I I was going through, like, preach my gospel, I was like, okay, like what is it again?
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And we go into the meeting, and I'm like, uh, I don't know what to say.
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But then when it was my turn to like speak, one thing that I was prepared was was being able to rely on my savior and to especially rely on the Holy Ghost as my constant companionship and to be my mouthpiece.
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And I remember when when I just started to speak, like I knew that it was it was right, and the person that we were teaching hit it he he understood what faith and repentance was, and and that was like I think that was the the huge turning point of my mission was being able to trust in in the savior in in times of difficulties.
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Um whether that be on the mission or through sports or through school, like it's it's very important to make sure that we are always having the spirit with us.
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Even if we feel like we are not prepared or not, as long as we have the spirit, we can be able to know that we can find those miracles.
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Yeah, I love that.
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Uh it reminds me of uh it's funny you bring her preach my gospel because you know, even two years after I've returned home from my mission, I find you know, I find myself in you know life's path and the lessons I've learned just from preaching my gospel alone, right?
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But anyways, to the point, um President Nelson talks about like um Captain Moroni and you know like how the Lamanites were gonna come like destroy all different parts of the land of of Nephi or whatever it is that they lived at at the time.
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And instead of just you know um just relying on prayer and and things like that, it says that Moroni like prepared the people and like built walls and all these other things, right?
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And President Nelson talks about how that needs to be like our like mantra in these last days, right?
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Not like be like super fearful and like but be prepared, right?
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It's like it's like the story or the parable of like the the virgins and like the the lamps and the oil, right?
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It's like you gotta have oil in your lamp, right?
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You don't wanna be the individuals that are uh kicked out or not let into the the wedding because of you know you didn't have oil in your lamp, right?
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And you know that comes from you know it's the primary answers, but you know, it's easy on our missions, yeah, right, to just to like sit there and be like, yeah, I can never lose these habits.
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Bro, it's been two years now.
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It's it's crazy how how hard it is sometimes.
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Oh, for sure, dude.
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Like, like every time I hear like be prepared, I'm like, I wish I had that name tag on, bro.
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God's talking, dude.
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I remember giving a talk just like a few months ago, and I'm like, man, this is not the same.
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This is not the same.
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I'm like, oh, I actually have to try now.
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The spirit's not clicking, but I just one thing that that stuck out to me was like sometimes we we need to make sure that we do our part because that's what the Lord asked us to do.
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Like He wants us to do as much as we can, and once we do that, we can be able to know that He'll provide us the way.
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You know?
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I actually had a funny experience this last Sunday um talking about being prepared.
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Uh so I'm in the bishopric in our YSA, and it's it's it's my it's my month to conduct, so you know, I have my speakers, I text them during the week, I was like, hey, here's your reminder, like you're speaking on Sunday.
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Um didn't speak, maybe maybe next month.
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Um but but I'm sitting there, church starts at 10:30, it's 1025, and none of my speakers have shown up.
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And I'm sitting there just freaking out.
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I'm like, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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The first counselor instead present sitting next to me.
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He's like, hey, the high councilman, if you go talk to him, he'll give a talk.
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Like, I don't want to do that.
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So I like quickly text all of them.
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I'm like, are you guys coming?
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Like, I need some help, please.
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But like, it was probably one of those moments where it's like they knew they told me they were gonna come, like I need to calm down and just be not afraid, right?
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Right.
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And 1028, the first one walks in, a minute after the next one walks in, and then two minutes later, the last one he texts me, he says, I'm 20 seconds away, I'll be there.
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Like, alright, I'm starting the meeting.
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So they all showed up.
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Um, but again, later that meeting, they all finished up their talks, and we still had 15 minutes, and I was like, crap, now I have to get up.
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And I just got up and shared this little thought, like this thought that's been stuck in my mind, talking about how God loves us enough to hurt us, right?
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Um, so I just shared a little thought on that for five minutes, and it ended up being okay, right?
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I just was stressed.
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I was worried that nobody was gonna show up and I was gonna have to talk for 45 minutes, but but you know, it's one of those things it's like, you know, when you're prepared and you send the word out like other like God will help you, right?
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He'll bless you and he'll make sure everything's okay.
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So I might have been stressed for five minutes, but everything worked out and I was okay.
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Um but yeah, it's kinda it's hard.
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It's not always easy to be prepared.
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Like if you come from home from a mission and maybe you fall out of some habits, maybe you keep some, and it's just it's you you stress over it, but overall, as long as you're keeping something, you're staying consistent in something, the Lord will bless you in certain ways.
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Um but let's let's talk a little bit about Peter now and his his uh his falling into the water, right?
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So we saw that he was prepared, right?
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He had gone through so many things, he's watched, witnessed so many miracles, he knew that Jesus was the Christ, he was the Messiah, he was the chosen one.
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But there was still something that grabbed his attention and started to fall into the water.
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Um I mean we saw that Jesus immediately saved him and says that very specifically in the scriptures immediately that he saved him, but he he doubted for a second, and it's it's interesting to think that Peter, one of the closest ones to Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry, doubted walking on water, being there with the Lord.
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So it's like I don't know what what what do you guys think about that?
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What are your your thoughts on those scriptures, on those verses?
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Um I just really think it's it's very important to think celestial, right?
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Because Peter, when he was walking on water, he was thinking celestial, his his focus was towards on Jesus Christ.
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That's part of thinking celestial.
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But when we get caught up in in the worldly things, which we all do, especially me, either the praise of the world or you know, the materialistic things, it can draw us away from from our savior.
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And when times do get hard, it it can get very foggy on where our resources are at.
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That's that's the blessing of being able to be on the mission, right?
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Because when you come home, when we do feel like we have fallen back, we know where our sources, even though we feel like life is, you know, that cloud comes in whenever we focus on temporal things or or the the worldly things, right?
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But we can be able to always know that where our main source is of light, which is which is Jesus Christ.
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And for me, it's to be able to focus my on my Savior at all times, whenever I feel like I have fallen back, is ask myself if I've if I'm doing the little things, right?
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Because just like those um that scripture in the Book of Mormon, small things can by small and simple By small and simple things can great things be brought to pass.
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And I truly believe that and have seen it in my life, and and it's just you know, saying your morning prayers, nightly prayers, and deciding your scriptures like it just always makes a huge difference.
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Always makes a huge difference and helps us to know that whenever we are, you know, have fallen back or feel like we we are like Peter and fell through the water, we can be able to look up and call upon our Savior and he'll his arm of mercy is always extended towards us.
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That's the beautiful thing.
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Um that he's always inviting us to come onto him, always inviting us to change and to be better.
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Because he sees our full potential and and we need him to be able to help ourselves to know what our full potential is um spiritually and and yeah.
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Yeah.
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I love what you said, you quoted I think it's in 2 Ephi, uh, where he says like mine arm of mercy is extended towards towards you, right?
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You know, with Peter the past six months I've I've had many different uh learning experiences from the perspective of of Peter, right?
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And one of them, along with um, I don't want to call it a chastising experience, but a learning experience, right, from falling into the water um after he was walking, was uh when he denied the savior three times, right?
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Uh and then obviously fast forward to what was it, three years later, right?
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The saviors, um, at this point from the perspective of the apostles, he's dead and he's gone, right?
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Like we they have no idea where he's at, they don't know what's going on, and so what do they do?
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They return to their nets and they start fishing, um, as we all know.
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And fast forward, right?
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They see a figure off in the distance, right?
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And they're like, Who is this who's who's this guy telling us to just cast our net on the other side?
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You think we haven't thought of that?
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Like, what do you mean?
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And what do they do, right?
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They they give it a shot and they they do it, and it says like they they can't even fit it into the boat, right?
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Yeah, and then I think it's Peter that like recognizes that it's like the Lord.
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So they swim out, right?
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And you know, then they have that iconic, like I hate using the word iconic, that's not the right word.
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This unforgettable lesson, right, with the savior as they're eating the fish.
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You know, they're they're laughing, they're having a good time, and then the savior being, you know, the savior turns to Peter and he's like, lovest thou me more than these, right?
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And then Peter, as we know, is like, yay Lord, like thou knowest that I love thee.
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And then he repeats that three times, right?
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And what what I love about that whole lesson, right, relating it back to what you were saying, Ben, and what you were saying as well, Dallin, as far as fear, failure, and then redemption through the savior, right?
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When I think of my favorite attributes of the savior, my one of my favorite names is Redeemer and Advocate.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And specifically with the story, Redeemer, because like we often think, right, like it is on us.
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Our salvation is on us, right?
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In a sense, because of agency, for sure.
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Like we we we get to choose.
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But at the same time, like there's a reason why it says in the scriptures, like he's the author and finisher of our faith.
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Meaning, once we make those covenants, once, like Peter, we are bound to him, like, and we completely give our will to him, like our our destiny is in our hands at that point.
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And the point I'm trying to get at is it's taken me and will take me a lifetime, but I'm I'm starting to feel little nudges from the spirit to help me really understand what grace really means, right?
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It's it's not it's not what we think as okay, if I do everything I can, then the savior helps me out, right?
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It's it's no, once I've exercised faith in him, like then his arm of mercy is is extended towards us, right?
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And the same thing with Peter right here, right?
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The savior didn't necessarily punish him, right?
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Like the punishment was like you can imagine how guilty that dude felt.
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Like, yeah, you already felt the punishment, he already felt it, man.
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Yeah, he already felt it.
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The absence of the spirit, like for sure, right?
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And instead of the savior in that moment telling Peter, like, you're gonna deny me three times.
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Like, and like, you know, to us the savior could have been like, Yep, so therefore, like, why would I have you in my circle, right?
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Like, it didn't come as a surprise to him.
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Not and like, I think we need to understand that ourselves, right?
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Like, like, I guarantee you the savior knew that Peter was gonna fall in the water.
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Yeah, like, and it's not a surprise to him, right?
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And so when he asked him that question, oh ye a little faith, like it wasn't the savior saying, I'm surprised.
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Like it was it was for Peter.
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It was like it was like, don't you understand that I'm here?
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Like, no matter what, and I think that's a lesson that I'm learning is like, you know, I feel guilty all the time.
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Like, just to be open, like I feel guilty all the time for like, gosh, I must have betrayed him, like I can only imagine how he feels.
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Like, and then you read in the scriptures, like this, this not to be like crude, but this man, this dude is all knowing, like, and here we are putting a judgment and something finite on something that's infinite, and someone that's infinite, right?
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Yeah, and it's just so beautiful to like be taught by the Spirit and to really see like how our loving Heavenly Father and Savior like really interact with us.
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Yeah, no, that's super awesome.
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I love those points that you guys make.
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Um the Lord really is always there for us, He loves us and truly cares for us.
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Um I kind of want to talk more about this uh the preparation that we talked about before.
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And I'd like to hear Allen's uh point of view or his his explanation of as an athlete, as a student, as a student athlete, um how are you able to prepare yourself spiritually to take on the day, not just in classes, um, but also on the football field.
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Like what are you able to do or what do you do to prepare for for these situations?
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So I think one thing to say is that Southern Virginia is such a an amazing environment to be able to see those spiritual aspects of those miracles and and to be able to be prepared, right?
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One thing that I've really learned on the mission that I will forever apply into My daily life is to be able to serve others.
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Like find the one, seek the one, right?
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Just like Russell and Nelson.
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Um I always in my morning prayers, I always ask Heavenly Father to bless me with opportunities to serve the one, or to find the one, or to seek the one, whoever it may be.
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And, you know, and being able to focus on others instead of yourself is the true medicine of all things.
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And I've truly seen it on the mission, and especially right now in my life, that, you know, nobody, you know, it's not about you.
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It's not about you.
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But once we figure out that we are here to serve others, just like Jesus Christ, that's that was his whole divine mission was to serve others.
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And that's all he did.
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And he lived a perfect life.
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And if he wants us to strive to live a perfect life, we should be able to serve others as one of our number one priorities.
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And it's it doesn't have to be big.
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Um it could just simply say, you know, just say hi to someone that you don't know and just compliment someone.
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And I've truly seen a huge change ever since I've done that.
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And I think, you know, and Southern Virginia is a beautiful opportunity to exercise that the type of environment that you are around with, with others who are also striving to serve others and who are also disciples of Jesus Christ.
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And it's helped me to find a lot of joy and and helped me remember like what my purpose is, right?
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And who I am as a person and who I identify.
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I'm not a football player, I'm not a you know, I'm not a a classmate, I'm not, you know, I'm not a guy just on this podcast, like I'm I'm a child of God, right?
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And so once we start focusing on others and to be able to serve one another, then we can be able to know that you know what our true identity is.
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And that's what helped has helped me to always be prepared for for whatever, right?
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If somebody needs help on on the road or or with homework, it it creates a lot of friendship as well.
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Like I've made a whole lot of friendship around here at Southern Virginia, and not only it it's blessed me and my life, and I'm I'm sure it's blessed others to be able to know that they are seen, right?
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Because we live in a fallen world and we live in a world where it's you know it's it's very lonely, right?
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We experience lots of loneliness, especially through social media, and feel like we're we're not enough.
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But when we start being able to focus on others, we can be able to see that, so yeah.
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I I love that.
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It's it's pretty cool to see how we are able to find solace in daily well, I guess President Nelson just called it spiritual momentum, really.
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Yeah.
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Like, yeah, like service is definitely I don't know, man.
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Like, I wish there was a different word for service because it makes it sound so like I don't know, like you know what I mean?
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Like when like I feel like like there's a worldly idea to the term service, yeah.
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And when I hear like anyone who has who's a Christian or like make covenants with the savior, yeah, and they use the term service, I think it's really like mourn with those that mourn, comfort those that sin and need of comfort, right?
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Like it's that Christ-like love that you're talking about.
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Yeah, and you're you're a great example of that, dude.
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Like it's been cool to see like as your teammate and shout out Todd Nuttle back at home, right?
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Back in the 801.
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801, baby.
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This one's really Todd.
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No, dude, like hearing hearing him and like some of your other peers like talk about like you as just an individual disciple, like for sure, dude.
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Like it's there's no coincidence that you're here and like you know, definitely, definitely one of the Lord's instruments and in helping others for sure, dude.
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So I yeah, I can I can testify that what my companion has said is true.
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I appreciate you, bro.
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For sure.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Um so we're gonna wrap things up here a little bit, but Don, I'm gonna throw you on the spot one last time.
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Alright, sweet.
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Um, so kind of our theme of this season, season two of On the Path, is to love, share, and invite.
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What is something you would like to invite our listeners to do in the next week?
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Ooh.
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That's a that's a big, that's a big one.
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You're timed too.
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Um I think I would love to invite y'all.
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I mean, I guess just what we've been talking about is to be able to find the one.
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Um not only find the one, seek the one, and nourish the one.
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Um because it's truly helped me to step back from my reality of life and to be able to focus on others and to be able to see the true blessing and and the joy that comes with it.
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Um so yeah.
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So yeah, that's the find the one.
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Find the one.
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Find the one.
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Awesome.
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I love it.
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Well, Dal, thanks for coming on, man.
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Appreciate you guys.
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This is this is amazing.
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We love you.
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So let's get it dub this weekend, yeah.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it, man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, thanks everyone again for tuning in to another episode.
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Thanks again to Dalin for joining us for this one.
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Um, like he said, we invite you guys to find the one.
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Find the one that's feels lonely, lost, confused.
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Um, help them know that we love them, you love them, and that the Lord loves them as well.
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Um, Jesus Christ is there for each and every one of us, no matter what situation we're in in our lives right now.
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Um but make sure you share this with friends, family, share this with whoever needs to hear it, whoever needs an uplifting message this week.
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And um continue to check the the the Instagram account, uh check our check our social medias for for upcoming um episodes, for for updates throughout the week.
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Um but yeah, thank you again for everyone, uh, for your continued support and and everything.
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And always remember everyone to stay on the path.
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Jesus loves you.
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Jesus loves you.
