My Sabbath Day Musings

I haven't made it known on my blog yet that last Sunday I was sustained as the ward RS Pres. This is the third ward in which I have held that calling. Each time, the ward has totally had a differnt dynamic than the other wards in which I have been the RS Pres. That is a good thing I think, because I have to be on my toes and listen to the Spirit as I serve.

Today is a good example of what I mean. It is Fast Sunday and I started out my morning with prayer, of course. One of the things I asked for in my prayer was for an opportunity to share the gospel with someone. Then, I went to church and met and greeted people. I went back to my bench before the meeting started and sitting in front of me was a family that visits from time to time when they come down from Prescott. I spoke to them and told them that I had a new calling. She got excited and told me that her son and his non-member wife were now living in our ward and expecting her first baby in May and would I visit with them because her son really wanted to be active and to have his wife joing the church as well. She told me all about them and texted her son and told him that I would contact them, etc. Well, It is wonderful to see a prayer answered so quickly and I am really looking forwart to sharing the gospel with someone and taking part in an entire family being able to have the gospel in their home to teach to their young children. I am going to call them this afternoon and see if I can go over this week. Kathy Bentz said that she would go with me and I also know that there is a young couple in our ward who live just a little way from them who I think I can introduce to them.

We had a very wonderful testimony meeting today. Glen really felt the urge to stand and bear his testimony. He was really filled with the Spirit and he touched me and many others. He also gave a great lesson in Sunday School on the law of consecration. There wasn't enough time to cover everything about it, but one of the things we had discussed during the week was about how Satan uses counterfeit devices to lure us away from the way of the Lord. For example, many people think that socialism is the way to care for the poor and the needy. But, that way of doing things is counterfeit to the law of consecration which involves our free will as we choose to live that way and turn ourselves and all that we have over to the Lord. Satan also uses immoral sex as a counterfeit way for people to find love and use divine power to procreate. It has really struck us lately how important it is to be in tune with the Spirit so that we can recognize the counterfeits out there that would take away our agency.

I am beginning to recognize the blessings in my life already as I strive to serve in whatever capacity my Heavenly Father needs me in. I know that nothing I do can ever repay Him for all he has done and continues to do for me. I am so grateful for a family, especially a husband, who supports me and waits for me when I have to talk to people or visit them and who love me even though, unlike the rest of the ward, they know my shortcomings. Thank goodness the Lord is there to fill in the gaps for me when I fall short.