Hello, everyone. Welcome to follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with

each week's lesson. John, we're in Doctrine and Covenant Section 29, which is all about the

second coming. When you think second coming, you think could happen any time. I better be prepared.

All right. This comes from Howard W. Hunter, who told the story of a

quarterback on a high school football team. This young man managed to make the team, but it was

clear he was not going to be an All-State or All-American player. Indeed, it didn't look like

he was going to be all anything, except perhaps all battered and bruised, he was the fourth of four quarterbacks.

By season's end, he had never been called into a game and had given up hope.

During the final game of the year, he pulled off his shoes, wrapped himself in a blanket,

and settled down on the bench to watch his buddies play. Midway through the game, he heard

the coach shout his name. He was startled and wondered if he had been mistaken. Then it came again,

right from the coach's lips. Hey, you, get in there and move the ball. What should he do? His first

impulse was to lapse into a coma. His second was to pretend he didn't hear.

His third was to say, wait, wait, while I put on my shoes.

He did the only manly thing, strapping on his helmet as he ran.

He made straight for the huddle.

His white stockinged feet were conspicuous to the players on both teams, as well as the spectators and the

coach, who also must have been ready to lapse into a coma. He called the play, but the shock of his

first game was obviously a little disconcerting. By the time he took the snap from center, he had

forgotten the play. His teammates moved to the right, but he

gamely went left. There alone against the world, he met the opposition head on and was swallowed

up in a snarl of onrushing lineman. He later said, no one expected me to make a touchdown.

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