Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with

each week's lesson. John, we are in sections 71 through 75 this week. I know there's a lot about

mission calls in Section 75. You've told me you have a story that fits. Yeah, I do. Right at the beginning,

in Section 75, verse 6, William McClellan is called to go to the Eastern countries. Then the Lord

says in verse 8, no, go to the South countries. Yeah. I like how Elder Bednar has clarified that

you're called to serve and then you're assigned to labor and those are different things.

Yeah.

We got really acquainted with that here in the 2020s, didn't we?

I was in my home ward.

This return missionary gets up with his first sentence, I thought, oh, wow, this kid gets it.

Elder Cole Forsy, he said, I had the privilege of serving during a worldwide pandemic.

Hmm, the privilege. Yes. Elder Forsyth's mission began in South Africa. Then the pandemic hit. He was transferred home, where he could do nothing but wait.

For four and a half months, Hank, what do you say in your prayers?

Am I done? Do I go out?

Can you imagine?

Yeah.

Four and a half months of what do I do?

He worked as a security guard and began training as an EMT, completely unsure if he would be recalled.

Finally, a new call came, Farmington, New Mexico, which is a lot like South Africa.

Yeah.

Which, no, is a different place where he served on a Native American reservation.

Cole said he was amazed at how helpful the training he received

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