Elder Robert D. Hales, while speaking at Brigham Young University, gave two illustrations that show how the wrong kind of friends or peers can influence us:
“There’s a marvelous lesson to be taught by those who live in the islands. When they catch crabs, they place them in a small, flat basket. If you place one crab in the basket, it crawls right out. If you place two crabs in the basket, every time one crab starts to crawl out, it is pulled back in by the other crab. …
“I would hope that we could understand another lesson I learned … from my uncle. It was about coyotes and sheep. It’s very clever. Mother and father coyote send those little coyote pups out to play and frolic. And the little lambs who are secure in the fold look over there and say, ‘Boy, doesn’t that look like a lot of fun?’ And they leave to go play with the coyote pups. Then the adult coyotes come down and kill them” (“This Is the Way; and There Is None Other Way,” in Brigham Young University 1981–82 Fireside and Devotional Speeches [1982], p. 67).
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