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🗓️ 30 October 2025
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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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