Welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, come follow me this week. We're in sections 121, 122, and 123 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

These are very important, very critical, big sections. The story I thought of goes with what the Lord tells Joseph in the

very beginning of section 121. He says, my son, peace be to thy soul, thine adversity and thine

affliction, so they are real, shall be but a small moment. But the time, it seems huge and awful, which it really is. Later,

the Lord is saying, you'll look back and it will be a small moment. In fact, he says later,

it will be for thy good. It will give you experience. The story comes from General Conference, October 1999. Now, I know you'll

remember this story, John, and a lot of our listeners will, but there's got to be a few out there who

have never heard it. This is Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, who at the end of a talk called the High Priest

of Good Things to Come, says, forgive me for a personal conclusion,

which does not represent the terrible burdens so many of you carry, but it is meant to be

encouraging. 30 years ago last month. So, John, we're now talking, even earlier than 1999.

Yeah.

I guess this would be 1969.

He said, a little family got in a car to cross the United States to go to graduate school. No money, a really old car, and everything they own in the smallest U-Haul trailer available.

Bidding their apprehensive parents farewell, they drove exactly 34 miles up the highway,

and their car erupted.

Pulling off the freeway onto a frontage road, the young father surveyed the steam,

matched it with some of his own.

That's good writing.

Left his wife and two children, the youngest just three months old, to wait in the car while he walked three miles or so to the southern Utah metropolis of Canaraville,

population, I think, 65.

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