hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites if you've been following us this year you know that we take a single question from each week's lesson John this week's lesson is on the last handful of chapters in Isaiah so we chose a question for my zaiah 58 where did Isaiah says we need to call the Sabbath a delight and yet for a lot of our listeners especially our young listeners the Sabbath is a delightful John how do you help someone who's a little bit younger say I want to make the Sabbath day holy I want it to be a delight but it just seems to make me bored what do you do what how do you help someone see the Sabbath is more of a delight I love the way you asked the question make it at the light and I think first you make a decision I'm going to make it this way I'm going to make my Sabbath wonderful I think I learned so much from a talk pink I was down at BYU in like 1990 and president Nelson was Elder Nelson gave it to
 called reflection and resolution and my memory is in that talk he quoted Ezekiel 2020 which sounds like good Vision 20/20 that also sounds like a year we just had that wasn't that great but he said that is Ezekiel 2020 says hello my status and they will be assigned between me and D that you may know that I am the Lord your God in the whole idea was it star sign to God that we're thinking about him and I begin to think what if God was watching me on the Sabbath would he be able to tell that I was thinking about him that I made a decision to make the Sabbath different I used to think it's a day of rest and then I became a bishop for a while and I I wasn't very restful I don't think and I thought I needed to change the way I thought a rest to it was resting from worldly things and worldly stuff to think about and worldly shows or movies it was about making God a bigger part of it and reading something different
 finding somebody we could go serving minister to and things like that and that made it more of a challenge to me I think if you really want to make it a delight you can get on your knees and ask the Lord how can I make this more of a delight and I bet he'll give you some answers and if it might be not only in what you how you spend your time but who and what you think about during that time no absolutely if we can learn to see this as an opportunity to do things differently I know that perhaps your family doesn't play video games or doesn't watch TV or doesn't do something that they usually do on the other days of the week on Sunday and you can focus on that and focus on what you're missing but it's going to be more of a delight to you if you see it as an opportunity to do things differently for example I love to write emails to missionaries on the Sabbath because I just don't have a lot of time during the week and so the pausing of that day gives me a chance to
 what does missionaries who love letters they love hearing from people back home I also think as I've read the New Testament I see Jesus healing a lot on the Sabbath and so I thought if it heals a relationship if it heals a marriage if it heals someone by ministering then that will become a delight to you if you're doing some healing on the Sabbath I think the Savior would be delighted if we could do that but I can see why it's difficult I have five children and why can't we do this why can't we do this why can't we do this I think Elder Holland said if you focus on what you can't do that's pretty pathetic view of the Sabbath let's focus on what we can do and how we can make this different and be creative doesn't mean you have to just sit around and say I'm bored I'm bored I can be time to say okay this is a chance for me to be a little bit creative and find things that will be both delightful for me and for the Lord so instead of saying what
 and I do what can I do and it's a totally different way to look at it and how can I set the day apart I love the idea of being set apart not set aside everything I supposed to be set aside to be set apart but spending the day apart and saying I'm going to make this a better day I'm going to make this a delightful day and we I think both of us don't want to start giving list of things to do cuz everybody's different we got people all over the country and all over the world how can you make it a delight and do some healing some blessing and make it joyful and do like a good way to start absolutely I think the one not to do that I think the Lord would be okay with it if we made it a single item list it would be don't judge others on how they practice this a new focus on you and what you can do to make it a delight and then if other people let them do it in their way don't worry too much about what other people are doing
 make a delight for them you just don't know what's going on in their life so John and I are hoping that you feel more motivated to say I want to keep this commandment because sometimes we feel like we're sacrificing a lot we're sacrificing what we would normally do if we had the day to choose for ourselves for my God this is what I would normally do but remember sacrifices often turn into investment that pay dividends sacrifices off and turn on member president was saying that sacrifices what seems to be a sacrifice what you think is a sacrifice is actually investment going to pay you back for a long time in the future I think we both been to the Holy Land and when you see the Orthodox Jews coming to the Western Wall to usher in the Sabbath day I watch them and I think we're doing it wrong we got to have more joy and more Delight in the Sabbath and that site alone motivates me to say I'm going to work on making the Sabbath at the light that's beautiful all right you know where to find us will be
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