Hello, my friends, welcome to follow him favorites. We are taking a single question from this

week's Come Follow Me lesson and talking about it. John, this week's lesson, we're in the beginning

chapters of Second Kings. And there's a story in here about a man named Naiman who expects something huge and gets something quite mundane,

something quite boring. So here's my question for you. What do you do when you have big expectations

for spiritual experiences, for God, for life, you have these big expectations. And the answers

are really quite what you might call

just typical, kind of not what you expected. What do you do when those expectations aren't met?

Gosh, that's a good question. I think that it was Elder Maxwell that said,

God doesn't send lightning a thunder when a still small voice will do type of a thing.

And I think sometimes our expectations are that our experiences will be like the scriptures.

And I like what somebody said once.

I think it was Elder McConkey way back in the day that said some things that happened

to these ancients were so miraculous they got written up in the scriptures,

which is telling us they weren't typical.

They were extreme.

They were huge.

But for many of us, boy, just staying on the covenant path is a great thing and a great accomplishment.

And be an example to those around you is a great thing and it might sound

mundane or simple or those are the answers I always hear but Heavenly Father needs people who

quietly just move forward and live the gospel and in retrospect that is a great thing that and

Neyman was asked go wash in the Jordan, and what was his response? Hank,

the Jordan, that's just...

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