Welcome to Follow Him favorites.

This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson.

John, Exodus 7 through 13.

You've told me you have a story that fits.

What is it?

Yeah, you remember after all these plagues, boy, Moses says the coolest thing.

Exodus 13, 3, Moses said into the people,

remember this day in which you're come out of Egypt. That idea of remembering a day, Hank,

when's your anniversary? That would be March 18th. You remember that day. Absolutely.

Mine's November 28th. When's your birthday? That would be May 12th. You know, October 8. So you just, you remember those things. They're important days. Elder Dale G. Renland in April of 2020, he gave a talk and he told this amazing story. He said, I became acquainted with Thomas Nielsen, a remarkable man who needed a heart transplant. He was 63 years old, that hits home, and lived in Logan, Utah in the United States, following military service during

World War II. He married Donna Wilkes in the Logan, Utah Temple, became an energetic and successful

brick mason. In later years, he especially enjoyed working with his

oldest grandchild Jonathan during school vacations. The two developed a special bond, in part

because Tom saw so much of himself in Jonathan. Tom found waiting for a donor heart frustrating.

He was not a particularly patient man. He'd always been able to set

and achieve goals through hard work and sheer determination. Struggling with heart failure,

with his life on hold, Tom sometimes asked me what I was doing to speed up the process.

Jokingly, he suggested avenues I could pursue that would make a donor heart available to him sooner.

Remember, Elder Rendland is a doctor, right?

Yeah.

One joyous yet dreadful day, an ideal donor heart became available for Tom.

The size, the blood type, were a match.

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