David Hoffman is engaged to Flavia Thompson, but she and his brother, Dick, get married on a whim instead. David instead serves a mission, but he learns while there that his mother has fallen ill. He returns home and blesses her, and she recovers. David and his neighbor Golda White look after David's mother and the house, and David develops a reputation as a hard worker and a faithful member of the Church. He is called to be the next bishop, but must marry first, and he asks Golda to marry him.