Hank Smith: 00:02 Hello everyone. Welcome to followHIM Favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with this week’s Come, Follow Me lesson. John, we are in Ether 6-11 this week, I know you have a great story you’re excited about.

John Bytheway: 00:17 When they get in those little barges, it says at the end of verse 4 of Ether 6, “Commending themselves unto the Lord their God.” It was just like, okay, we’re strapping inside.

Hank Smith: 00:30 They get in the boats and put their seatbelts on and say, “Okay, Lord.”

John Bytheway: 00:35 Yeah, “I’m trusting you.” Years ago, you know this Hank, I love airplanes, and I compiled, I didn’t write them at all, I compiled stories of LDS pilots, and this one pilot’s name was Ken Swain. He was a 737 pilot. You’ve flown on 737s. As they were coming into approach in Buffalo he had this feeling, “I’m going to come in a little bit faster.” So he came in instead of 160 miles an hour, he came in at about 185. He also thought, “I’m going to be a little bit higher.” And I won’t give you all the details, I just have to tell you that he just got this feeling, “I’m going to come in a little higher and a little fast.” Well, they actually have technology now that can let you know about this. Have you ever heard of a wind shear?

Hank Smith: 01:18 Is that wind going across?

John Bytheway: 01:20 Down or whatever. Just a violent wind. He said, “I’m coming in. I’m a little high. I’m a little fast. My co-pilot looked at me and said, ‘You’re never going to get this on the ground.'” He said, “We’re coming over this tollway,” I think at Buffalo suddenly they hit a wind shear. It pushed them down pretty far. But he had extra altitude, he had extra speed, and he was able to put it down on the runway a little hard. He pulled off the taxiway and his co-pilot looked at him and gave us the title of the chapter, he said, “I’ll fly with you anywhere.”

  01:59 And the cool part about this was I was up at Heber Valley Camp. You’ve been up there before, Hank. One time there was a young women’s camp there, and I got to go speak, and this guy walks over and he’s cooking up a storm at the Coleman stove there and he says, “Hey, I’m Ken Swain.” I’d only had emails from him before, but I met this pilot. When you get into an airplane, you’re commending your hands into the life of those pilots. You got to trust them. I’d fly with this guy anywhere. If the Lord’s going to take us, we’ll fly with him anywhere, so we can commend ourselves unto him.

Hank Smith: 02:31 Can you see them getting out of the barges a year later? Brother of Jared looks up and says, “I’ll sail with you anywhere.”

John Bytheway: 02:38 Anywhere.

Hank Smith: 02:39 That was amazing.

John Bytheway: 02:40 Perfect.

Hank Smith: 02:42 Yeah. Well, we hope you’ll join us on our full podcast. It’s called followHIM, you can get it wherever you get your podcasts. We’re with Dr. BJ Allen this week, and he is a lot of fun as he walks us through these chapters. Come join us over there, and then come back here, we’ll do another followHIM Favorites.