Goddfrey Hammit.

Brother David Hoagland has, his entire life, remained committed to his faith: a Mormon, he gave two years of his life to serve a mission for the Church, and proceeded, on his return, to dedicate the following forty years to teaching in the Church’s seminary program. Now in his sixties and recently retired, Brother Hoagland has time to look back on the acts of faith that have informed his life, large and small, religious and otherwise. Among these is his enduring friendship with his mission companion, Elder Willson, with whom he has kept up a decades-long correspondence. Going through these letters in anticipation of Elder Willson’s approaching visit–the first in over a decade–Brother Hoagland begins to consider the sacrifices he has made in the name of remaining worthy of a final salvation. The hint of a future that might have been had with Elder Willson begins to emerge as Brother Hoagland considers what, more than God, we worship, and what, more than Heaven, we are worthy of.