Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Home Teaching Drug Deal • followHIM Favorites • March 10-16 • Come Follow Me

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

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Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I are sharing stories that go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson. John, we are in section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants. You know this section, tell us what it is. Yeah, section 20 is really long. It's kind of the constitution of the church. This is how it's organized. This is what you do. Like the first handbook of instruction. Like this is how we're going to run things. Well, there's this part of the new handbook here where it says that we should visit the house of each member and exhort them to pray vocally in secret and attend all their family duties.

So this becomes the home teaching program eventually, and as we know it now, the ministering program in the church. This wins the award, absolutely, for making an appointment before you go to teach at someone's house. BUD DARRELL ZADOK, CHIEF CHIEF OF THE CHURCH This is an article written by Paul Raleigh, who tells the story of Daryl Zadok Budd. He says that brother Budd is

known for his cheerful spirit and good sense of humor and colorful writing style. Paul Raleigh says that when he heard this story he had to write an article about it, quote, it's too good not to pass along. Alright, so here's how it goes John. Budd and the elders' corn president in his LDS ward were home teaching to lapsed members, so inactive members, when they came upon a home containing a member more lapsed than they could have imagined.

They were welcomed into the woman's apartment, which she shared with her boyfriend. As we were preparing to say the closing prayer at the conclusion of our visit, we heard someone pounding on the door and yelling, It's the police! Open the door! I thought, that's a funny joke. Then there was more pounding, Bud wrote. Before the boyfriend could open the door, it flew open and ten armed men wearing Kevlar vests bearing

the word police swarmed in, ordering everyone to the floor. Bud wrote, I thought to myself, this is going to make a great story. This is going to be on a podcast one day. As Bud lay face down on the carpet, the elders corn president stood up from where he was sitting on the couch, thinking he could explain why he and Bud were there. The kind officers, who were spouting language the two LDS home teachers were not used to hearing, did not seem to like this action, and one very large officer stepped toward Bud's companion, who then found himself looking directly into the muscle of a gun with a bright

light shining in his eyes. The officer placed his finger over the trigger and shouted, I said get on the ground. The portly elderscorn president quickly complied, but to Bud's chagrin there wasn't enough room between the couch and the coffee table, so he landed on Bud. I never thought I would need to support the president like that, Bud continued. I assure you, I really felt the weight of my calling. While they were on the floor, the cops, who were part of the narcotics task force, continued to shout orders and threats.

The humor of the whole situation hit me full force, and I started laughing, wrote Bud. They were handcuffed and searched for weapons, not including their scriptures. The Elderborn president finally blurted in one breath that they were the home teachers from the ward, causing the officers to look at one another in puzzlement. They asked for church ID and were quickly shown temple recommends. Bud writes this, I knew my temple recommend could get me in the house of the Lord, but I never dreamed it could get me out of going to the big house. Alas, they couldn't save the couple they had gone to enlighten. The lost sheep we were hoping to bring back to the fold sadly ended up going to a different

pen. All right. John, back to section 20. That we are to, what was it? Visit the house of every member and exhort them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all family duties. So to everyone out there, what's the lesson? Make an appointment before you go over.

We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with Dr. Casey Griffiths this week, who is a doctor in confidence expert, and he does a great job walking us through this section and then come back next week. We'll do another follow him favorite.