Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we have Christmas this week, and I know you have one of the best Christmas stories ever.

Well, it's probably one that a lot of people have heard. I even think the Tabernacle Choir did a retelling of it. And I love the story. And actually, Hank, I first saw it on a movie that BYUu productions made called The Gift years ago before BYUU TV. So here's the gist. There's this young man. He's going through the catalog. What can I get dad for Christmas?

Every morning, dad wakes him up at like 5 a.m. to go milk the cow, shovel the hay for the other animals, do all that stuff.

It's hard. He's just a kid. One day, he's about to wake up and he hears his dad talking to his mom. His dad says,

I hate to wake him up so early. He's a young man. He needs his sleep. He's just growing.

And his mom's like, I know, but he needs to learn to work. And he has this feeling,

my dad loves me. Yeah. He goes and takes care of the cows and everything.

And then he has this idea, I know what I can give my dad for Christmas.

I can do the work on Christmas Day in the morning.

I can do all of the work and I can surprise my father.

And it's really a fun movie.

Hank, have you ever set the alarm and you just keep checking to see if it's really going to go off this time?

Did I miss it?

Did I miss it?

Did I miss it?

He keeps waking up.

It's 1 a.m.

I think it is 2 a.m. when he crawls out of bed, quietly puts on his galoshes, he walks across the crunchy snow,

trying not to wake anybody up, opens up the door. He says the cow looks surprised. I don't know.

The only expression I've seen on a cow is exactly the same look every time, right, no matter what,

but he sees the cow. He says the cow looks surprised.

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