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

Naaman 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 Maconkey 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,

oh, I just staying on the covenant path is a great thing and a great accomplishment.

And be an example to those around you as 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. And

Naaman was asked, go wash in the Jordan and what was his response? Hank, the Jordan, that's

just yeah, it says Naaman was Roth. Here's he said, behold, I thought that he would come

out and call on the name of the Lord and strike his hand and recover the leopard. He has

this idea in his head of what this is supposed to go like and it doesn't go like that. But

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