Sacrament Service
Bulletin
“we don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.” - Elder Joseph B Wirthlin
Hymn #284 - “If You Could Hie to Kolob” challenges the finite mind to understand the infinite. The verb “hie” is an archaic word meaning “hasten”. Because it was too difficult for congregations to sing, the 1985 Hymn Committee chose an English folk melody to set the text to. This hymn is in a minor key and ends on a note that doesn't fully seem to conclude, thus matching the lyrics of the hymn.
First Speaker
Service will strengthen your spirit and body.
“The responsibility mothers have today has never required more vigilance. More than at any time in the history of the world, we need mothers who know. Children are being born into a world where they “wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12). However, mothers need not fear. When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.”
Deuteronomy 6:7
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
“Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.” You are doing God’s work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you and He will bless you, even—no, especially—when your days and your nights may be the most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master’s garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.” And it will make your children whole as well.”
Next Speaker
Families are blessed when their family members serve missions.
Next Speaker
Be prepared to follow the promptings of the Spirit. Act and then you will receive a witness.
Elders Quorum
Lesson was based on Elder Uchtdorf's Oct 2018 General Conference talk, “Believe, Love, Do”
Don't wait for someone to say they have a need. Just do it.
John 10
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
“Of course, we must do more than merely have an intellectual understanding of the gospel for it to have this healing influence in our lives. We must incorporate it into our lives—make it a part of who we are and what we do.”
“In my experience, belief is not so much like a painting we look at and admire and about which we discuss and theorize. It is more like a plow that we take into the fields and, by the sweat of our brow, create furrows in the earth that accept seeds and bear fruit that shall remain.”
“The organization our Savior created on earth—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—helps us to do just that. It offers a place to practice living the way He taught and blessing others the way He did.”
“The Savior shows us the direction to move—forward and upward.”
As we lift others we are lifted ourselves.
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