Yes, Lord, I will follow thee, Elder Eduardo Gavarret

Great Lesson on Sunday ...

One of our new talks from our last General Conference. 

 Rochelle taught it.  YEA!! 

This talk was delivered (for the very first time in Conference) in Elder Gavarret's native language.  He was pretty excited to be able to be one of the first.
He starts out his talk sharing a story of his mission days.  It was the year 1975, and he was serving in the Uruguay-Paraguay Mission.  During his first month in the mission, the zone leader held an activity to demonstrate a gospel principle.  Each missionary in the zone was blindfolded, and were told that they were to follow a path leading to the cultural hall.  They were to follow the voice of one particular leader, a voice they heard before starting to walk.  However,  they were warned that during the journey, they would hear several voices that would try to confuse them and get them to stray from the path.
After some minutes of hearing noises, talking, and --in the midst of it all---a voice that siad "Follow me,"  he felt confident that he was following the right voice.  When they arrived at the cultural hall of the chapel, he was asked to take off his blindfold.  When he did, he realized that there were two groupls and that he was in the group that had followed the wrong voice.
He expressed that this experience has stayed with him to this day.  He told himself that "Never, ever again will I follow the wrong voice.
The Lord invites us using various verbs:  "Come unto me," "Follow me," "Walk with me!"  In each case it is not a passive invitation.  It is an invitation to act.   It is addressed to all mankind by the one who is the Prophet of prophets, the Teacher of teachers, the Son of God, the Messiah.
We had some great discussion!!  Thanks to Rochelle!!!  We love our teachers!!!!  They're the BEST!!