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The Name that Found Her • followHIM Favorites • November 3-9 • Come Follow Me

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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

Hank Smith, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Follow Him, Doctrine And Covenants, Christianity, Courses, John Bytheway, Follow Me

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, 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, we are in sections 125 through 128.

0:12.8

Pretty much all on Baptisms for the Dead. You have a story for me.

0:17.9

You know what? I love about this story is almost everybody has a story like this.

0:21.7

It's a wonderful place where the spirit world touches our world and it happens to a lot of people.

0:26.9

But this one, I just loved it. This was written by sister Vicky Taylor, who was a Caribbean area

0:32.0

communications senior missionary. There are so many names in here and country names that I'm going to mispronounce.

0:38.7

We apologize in advance. Yeah, here we go. Augustina Constantine Dorson was born July 1st, 1863,

0:45.3

on the Sarah Plantation in the district of Coroni, west of Paramaribo, in the country currently

0:52.9

known as Suriname. She was born the day slavery was officially abolibo in the country currently known as Suriname.

0:54.8

She was born the day slavery was officially abolished in the country

0:58.3

that was then known as Dutch Guyana, located in the northeast part of South America.

1:04.0

Augustina's mother, Molly Dorson, and Molly's sister Eva Dorson, were slaves on that plantation.

1:11.4

Life for the slaves was hard and did not change for 10 years after slavery was abolished,

1:16.5

because the government had to repay each plantation owner for each person freed.

1:22.2

The family eventually moved to Paramaribo, a larger town in Dutch Guyana, to find work.

1:28.8

Fast forward, Hank, these wonderful brothers and sisters start doing family history.

1:34.9

You heard the name Eva Dorson was one of the slaves.

1:38.3

Early in the morning, September 13, 2024, Sister Lusanne Labretto attended the temple to do baptisms for their ancestors.

1:48.4

Lusanne was given five names to be baptized for. She sat quietly in the chapel, waiting for her

1:53.6

husband to change clothes while the rest of the group entered the baptistry. But as she waited,

1:57.8

she felt strangely restless. She was being urged to go inside and start the baptisms immediately.

2:03.6

She said, I literally felt I was being pushed forward.

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