Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's

Come Follow Me lesson. John, we're in Ruth, and the beginning of First Samuel, you have a story for us.

Yes, in fact, there's two verses in Samuel that I really love. One of them, Samuel Speak,

Thy servant Heareth, and another one, for them that honor me, I will honor.

So President Monson was a mission president up in Ontario, Canada, and he had this one area

and all the elders called it Stony Kingston, because they'd only had one convert in six years.

Nobody baptized there.

That was the rumor that went around. Nobody to teach.

It's horrible. He says, I was praying about this dilemma. And my wife, Sister Monson, gave him this

book to read, a child story of the prophet Brigham Young. It tells the story about Brigham Young

in Kingston, Ontario. He labored there for 30 days and

baptized 45 people. Without explaining it to the mission, he closed the area. Then he started spreading

this rumor that a new city was going to be opened where Brigham Young had proselyted before.

And everybody speculated about it, he said.

Letters pleaded for the assignment to the Shangri-La,

isn't it, Montson said.

So he selected a few missionaries, two of them knew, two of them experience.

They were chosen for this high adventure.

The members of the small branch pledged their support.

And the missionaries, yes, speak thy servant here. So they go. In three months, it became the most

productive city of the Canadian missions. The gray limestone buildings stood still. The city had not

altered its appearance, but the change was one of attitude and a label of faith.

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