followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 77-80 : followHIM Favorites

Episode Date: July 12, 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 a 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. 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 had skimmed right past it before, and that's section 80. And there's a couple of mission calls here, Stephen Burnett 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 ward. I'll just tell you his first name. Cause I don't have his permission, but a return missionary named Cole gets up and he says, Oh, I'm sorry. I'm losing my headphones. Do 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 it a 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 Indian reservation. And he said that he spent a lot of time there using the skills that he had learned as a security guard and 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 as he was 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. And look at this verse, section 80, verse three, wherefore go ye preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south or to the east or to the west, it mattereth not for ye cannot go amiss. And I thought of Cole in my ward and thought that it didn't go the way I expected, but it was more beautiful than I planned. Wow. What a fantastic attitude. I know. Yeah. That's absolutely wonderful. I wish I could be more like Cole. My follow him favorite is

section 78 verse 19. The Lord says he, and we could add she, who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious. I grew up, my teenage years were spent listening to Gordon B. Hinckley. And I remember him saying frequently, the habit of saying thank you, his hand would go up and down. And he said, the habit of saying thank you is the mark of an educated person. The habit of saying thank you is the mark of an educated person. The habit of saying thank you is the mark of 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 of saying thank you. You know what I love about that too, Hank, is it's receiving all things, even a trial, a hard time. 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. Yeah. And that ties into what Cole said, doesn't it? He 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 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 get your podcasts. So we hope you'll join us soon. Thank you.