Sacrament Service
A couple who are going on a mission to the Heber Valley Camp spoke to us.
First Speaker
“Service to others deepens and sweetens this life while we are preparing to live in a better world.” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W Kimball, 85–86.)
Don’t get so caught up in what you want to do that you miss what God wants you to do.
“God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs. Therefore, it is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. The people of the Church need each other’s strength, support, and leadership in a community of believers as an enclave of disciples.” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W Kimball, 82)
Often we pray for God to help others and do nothing to help them ourselves.
“Service makes us strong in our faith and useful in His kingdom. Service gives us purpose and courage in life. It brings us closer to God and helps us refine our divine nature.” (Elder Carlos H. Amado, “Service, a Divine Quality”, April 2008 General Conference)
If you are struggling, go serve someone.
1 Nephi 19
18 And I, Nephi, have written these things unto my people, that perhaps I might persuade them that they would remember the Lord their Redeemer.
Helaman 5:12
12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
Elders Quorum
Lesson based on Patrick Kearon - “Welcome to the Church of Joy” and Brook P. Hales - “Mortality Works!”
2 Nephi 2 23-25
23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.
25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
There's a concept in material science called work hardening. Work hardening, in metallurgy, increases in hardness of a metal induced, deliberately or accidentally, by hammering, rolling, drawing, or other physical processes. Although the first few deformations imposed on metal by such treatment weaken it, its strength is increased by continued deformations.
Humans are strengthened in a similar way. We go through trials. Sometimes they initially weaken us, but as we continue to work through them we become stronger.
Hebrews 5
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
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