Hello everyone. Welcome to another follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we are in Alma 23 through 29 today, anti-Nefai Lehi's Amman, Aaron, kind of the end of their

mission and I have a story I thought fit really well with Alma 26 when Amman is looking back over his mission he says when our hearts were

depressed we are about to turn back the Lord comforted us. He says we have

traveled house to house replying on the mercies of God. We've entered

their houses and their synagogues. We've been cast out, mocked, spit on, hit,

stoned, cast into prison. I wonder if Aaron thought at that point, I was cast into prison, not we.

So I thought of a story. This comes from Elder H. Ross Workman. This is from a 2003 new era and he talks about his mission. He was a member of the 70 when he told this story. This was a long time ago he was in college he had a good

part-time job he was engaged and was going to be married in just a couple of months life

was good the future looked bright He says I was very surprised when my steak president

pulled me aside on a Sunday morning and said, the Lord wants you to serve a mission. He said,

I felt powerfully impressed that this call was from God. I acted

upon that impression and committed to serve. I was called to serve in the southern

state's mission. I quit my job, I left the

university, I postponed my wedding for two years. Wow. I said goodbye to my loved ones. I was leaving everyone and everything that mattered to me.

Here's his first few days. I traveled by train many hours to Atlanta, Georgia. Two missionaries

picked me up and drove me to meet the mission president. He greeted me for a

few moments and then told me I must leave immediately by bus to Montgomery, Alabama where I would be given instructions about my area.

The same elders who had picked me up, took me to the bus station, handed me a piece of paper with an address on it.

They told me to meet the missionaries in Montgomery.

They would tell me what to do.

All right, so he walks tentatively to the bus station,

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