In considering the lesson this week on doing our part to share the gospel, I had an occasion to be speaking with Karen Armstrong. I was asking a question about someone she knows and she was sharing with me her week. She is helping an elderly neighbor who had fallen and hurt herself - taking her to doctor appointments etc. She was going out with the missionaries and helping me find women whose names are on the roster but we do not know who they are. She also was contacting another less active for me and finding a way to spend time with her.
She is a "light upon the hill" (Matthew 5:14-15) that the Savior speaks of as the BEST way of doing missionary work!
What an example she has been for me this week! I could use many of you as "lights" in our relief Society, but this week I have been receiving my "vitamin D" from Karen Armstong.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Sharing the Gospel
Sisters, we will continue our discussion on missionary work this next Sunday by discussing lesson #13 entitled The Importance of Sharing the Gospel. Building on Shirlee's great lesson we will talk about four main areas:
1. The responsibility we all have to share the Gospel.
2. The examples we are to those around us.
3. How we can help prepare young people to serve missions.
4. Senior missionary service.
I hope that each of you will take some time to read through this lesson (it's pretty short) and come prepared to share your experiences as they relate to these four areas of missionary work. If you can't think of any experiences you might have had then maybe this week we can work toward having some! Let's open our mouths sisters!
Angie
1. The responsibility we all have to share the Gospel.
2. The examples we are to those around us.
3. How we can help prepare young people to serve missions.
4. Senior missionary service.
I hope that each of you will take some time to read through this lesson (it's pretty short) and come prepared to share your experiences as they relate to these four areas of missionary work. If you can't think of any experiences you might have had then maybe this week we can work toward having some! Let's open our mouths sisters!
Angie
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Fruits of Our Labor
As I woke up early to chop up fruit for our Fourth of July celebration, I was again reminded of the way our miraculous church functions.Today we were asked to bring cut fruit to the party. Each of us brought our small portion of fruit to be combined into a big batch of fruit to be enjoyed by all. Our callings are very similar to this. We must each perform our callings to our utmost ability. Only then can we enjoy good spiritual fruit. May you each enjoy the sweet blessings that God has in store for you today!
By Rachel Roark
By Rachel Roark
Desire to Share the Gospel
Dear Sisters,
Please, please read chapter 12, "An Enthusiastic Desire to Share the Gospel," from our RS manual. To me this lesson is all about loving ourselves and loving our neighbor. When we love someone else we want to share our knowledge with them as well as our joy. As we live the gospel we feel joy and that ought to be contagious. As I studied missionary work I was very moved by "We Are All Enlisted" an October 2011 talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in the Priesthood Session of General Conference. This talk inspired me and I felt a lot of happiness. For the first time I felt I desired to serve a mission myself. I wonder if you will feel this way too.
Love,
Shirlee
Click HERE to read Chapter 12 of the George Albert Smith manual.
Click HERE to read the above talk by Elder Holland.
Please, please read chapter 12, "An Enthusiastic Desire to Share the Gospel," from our RS manual. To me this lesson is all about loving ourselves and loving our neighbor. When we love someone else we want to share our knowledge with them as well as our joy. As we live the gospel we feel joy and that ought to be contagious. As I studied missionary work I was very moved by "We Are All Enlisted" an October 2011 talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in the Priesthood Session of General Conference. This talk inspired me and I felt a lot of happiness. For the first time I felt I desired to serve a mission myself. I wonder if you will feel this way too.
Love,
Shirlee
Click HERE to read Chapter 12 of the George Albert Smith manual.
Click HERE to read the above talk by Elder Holland.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
GOD'S PLAN FOR HAPPINESS!
Isn't life great? It is summer in Texas, and time for the Birthday of America. Holidays are times to spend with friends and family, and tomorrow, we get to spend time with friends that compose our Ward Family.
Thanks to several sisters who came and talked with me after, called me on the phone, and even two who took the time Sunday evening to send me a note about our R.S. lesson Sunday. Thanks for your kind words. I know that when you study and pray about a lesson, that you beome passionate, and so I am grateful for the feedback. I hope that I am not "preachy". I so appreciate those sisters who mentioned that it touched them and gave them a desire to change. Boyd K Packer said that "the object of teaching is to change behavior". I know personally the humility and hard work that any kind of real change requires.
When I was working on the little bookmarks, and found those fabulous butterflies, I immediately thought of what a change a butterfly goes through from that little green/gray worm, to it's chrysalis stage, and finally becoming a magnificent butterfly.
We come to earth a helpless baby, with a forgetting veil drawn over our minds so that our homesickness from our Heavenly Father, doesn't prevent or distract us from using this "privilege" of mortality to it's fullest measure. We learn and grow and make mistakes and repent, and keep working to become what our Heavenly Father wants us to become. Then one day, we will stand to be judged for our earthly efforts. I pray we will all have BECOME Celestial Candidates radiating a Celestial light. That Christ, our ultimate judge, will welcome us back home again. Then - we will remember all things - - and we will be so happy!
Thanks to several sisters who came and talked with me after, called me on the phone, and even two who took the time Sunday evening to send me a note about our R.S. lesson Sunday. Thanks for your kind words. I know that when you study and pray about a lesson, that you beome passionate, and so I am grateful for the feedback. I hope that I am not "preachy". I so appreciate those sisters who mentioned that it touched them and gave them a desire to change. Boyd K Packer said that "the object of teaching is to change behavior". I know personally the humility and hard work that any kind of real change requires.
When I was working on the little bookmarks, and found those fabulous butterflies, I immediately thought of what a change a butterfly goes through from that little green/gray worm, to it's chrysalis stage, and finally becoming a magnificent butterfly.
We come to earth a helpless baby, with a forgetting veil drawn over our minds so that our homesickness from our Heavenly Father, doesn't prevent or distract us from using this "privilege" of mortality to it's fullest measure. We learn and grow and make mistakes and repent, and keep working to become what our Heavenly Father wants us to become. Then one day, we will stand to be judged for our earthly efforts. I pray we will all have BECOME Celestial Candidates radiating a Celestial light. That Christ, our ultimate judge, will welcome us back home again. Then - we will remember all things - - and we will be so happy!
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