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 94 through 97 this week. I know I've done a couple in a row, but I've got a great story for you. This is section 95, verse one, verily thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love and whom I love I also chasten

that their sins may be forgiven. John, I don't know if you've ever been chastened by the Lord.

A little divine discontent where you, you can do better than this.

You feel about this big?

But it's never shameful.

It's never you're the worst.

It's, hey, you can do better.

Here is the story, John, that I have for you.

This comes from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland.

And I love that he's pretty vulnerable here about when he was a young

father. Okay, here's how it goes. He says, early in our married life, my young family and I were

laboring through graduate school in New England. Pat, his wife, was the Relief Society

president, and I was serving in the state presidency. I was going to

school full time. I was teaching half time. We had two small children, little money and a lot of pressure.

He said one evening I came home from a long day, long hours at school. I was feeling the weight of the world, he says, on my shoulders.

Everything was demanding and discouraging and dark. He walks into his little student apartment,

and there's some silence there. So he turns to his wife, Pat. What's the trouble? Pat says, Matthew has something he wants to tell you.

Matt, what do you have to tell me?

He was quietly playing with his toys in the corner of the room.

Matt, I said a little louder.

Do you have something to tell me?

He stopped playing, but for a moment didn't look up. Then two... I said a little louder. Do you have something to tell me?

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