Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Doctrine & Covenants 77-80 : followHIM Favorites

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

Five-minute clip of Hank and John's favorite part of this week's Come, Follow Me Study.John shares his experience with a return missionary who said, "My mission was not what I expected, but turned out more beautiful than I planned." Doctrine & Covenants 80:3 teaches "Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss.Hank shares President Gordon B. Hinkley's advice that "The habit of saying thank you is the mark of an educated man or woman." Doctrine & Covenants 78:19 teaches "And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious;"Please leave a review on the podcast.Join us on social media:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannelInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcast"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-piano

Hello everyone, my name is Hank Smith. I am the host of the podcast called Follow Him. I'm here with my co-host the wonderful John by the way John every week we do a follow him favorite where we take the full lesson and just say you got to choose one thing Yeah, the lesson this week is on sections 77 through 80 of the doctrine and covenants and you get to choose one follow him favorite So what is it? Okay, I'm going to choose and it's always hard, but I'm going to choose a section that is so short. I probably it's skimmed right past it

before and that section 80. And there's a couple of mission calls here, Stephen Brinett and Eden Smith, but there's a verse here. I'm going to tell you a story and then I'm going to read the verse. So we have a homecoming in my in my ward. I'll just tell you his first name because I don't have his permission But a return missionary named Cole gets up and he says I'm sorry I'm losing my headphones You want me to start over do you want to just do this?

I'll do this okay This is live television folks. So Cole gets up and he said he just began his homecoming, we call out of homecoming in such a wonderful way. He said, I had the privilege of serving during a worldwide pandemic. And I thought right away, I thought, man, the Lord's blessed him. He's got the right attitude. He said, I went to South Africa and then COVID hit and we were inside and then I went home back home and I didn't even know how long or will I get recalled what's going to happen. He said, I started working as a security guard, started training as an EMT, wondering what's the deal. And then he said, I got recalled to New Mexico,

Farmington, New Mexico. And he went on Indian reservation, what he called an Indian reservation. And he said that he spent a lot of time there using the skills that he had learned as a security guard in EMT. He thought he was so blessed, because I just learned how to do this. And I don't know exactly what happened, but he ended up learning those skills.

And then just to see what's getting comfortable there, got called back to South Africa. And he said at the end of his talk, my mission was not what I expected, but it turned out more beautiful than I planned. Oh, and look at this verse, section 80 verse 3, wherefore, go ye, preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south or to the east or to the west, it matter if not for ye cannot go a miss. And I thought of colon my ward and thought that. It didn't go the way expected that it was more beautiful than I planned. Wow, what a fantastic attitude. I know. Yeah, that

that's absolutely wonderful. I wish I could be more like more like coal. My following favorite is section 78 verse 19. The Lord says, he and I we could add she who receive with all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious. I grew up my teenage years were spent listening to Gordon B. Hingley and I remember him saying frequently, the habit of saying thank you, his hand would go up and down and he said that. Habitat of saying thank you is the mark of an educated person. The habit of saying, thank you is the mark an educated person. And so in our house, sometimes we'll sit down and we'll start eating dinner.

And I'll say, Hey, how do you tell if someone's smart? And all my kids would go, thank you, mom. Thank you, mom. Thank you for dinner because the way you can tell if someone's smart is if they have the habit, Yeah. Saying thank you. So, you know what I love about that too, Hank, is it's receiving all things, even a trial, a hard time. All right. All things.

That's a pretty high percentage word that you come around in the end and say, okay, I learned something. Thank you for that. And that ties into what Cole said, doesn't it? You received his changes in his mission with thankfulness when that's hard to do. And it's hard to do even if your headphones keep falling out. Yeah, or even if you move your arms and they like pop out and you're not expecting it. Yeah.

But you just keep talking like nothing happened, you know. Hey, we want you to join us on our full podcast because we do this the whole time. If you're really, if you're like, these guys are weird, I want to watch more. You can join us. It's called Follow Him. You can find it wherever you're, wherever you get your podcast.

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