Hello, everyone. 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 27 and 28.

Section 27 has a lot about the sacrament, and I think that's where you're going to take us today.

I'm intrigued by things the Lord has us repeat, and the sacrament is one of those that is so beautiful.

I just love to listen to the words of the prayer.

Another thing I love, Hank, is airplanes and astronauts and space.

And I remind you that my name is John Glenn with two ends.

By the way, have you ever heard of a spatial astronaut named Don Lind?

I can't say I have.

Well, he was a Latter-day Saint.

I'm just going to read his experience.

Another experience very close to me was to have the sacrament in orbit.

We were in space for a full week, so of course we were up there on a Sunday.

Our bishop had given me permission to hold my own sacrament service. It was a little unusual.

You priests in the audience might consider what it would be like to try to kneel down in waitlessness.

You keep drifting off. That's funny, literally, right? We all drift off in meetings,

but not literally. Yeah. Yeah. Johnson, get down here. You're floating again, right? For privacy,

I held my sacrament service in my sleep station, something like a Pullman birth. I think that's a

reference to a train, a Pullman car where you have little places you can sleep.

I knelt on what you would think of as the ceiling and braced my shoulders against my sleeping bag so I would not float away.

It was a very special experience.

I will remember that sacrament service and the renewing of my baptismal covenants high above the earth all my life. It had some

of that special feeling that you usually have only when you go to the temple. And then he continued,

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