As i mentioned before in earlier blog posts i was asked to be one of the Sunday School teachers in the singles ward. I have been preparing for my fist lesson which is lesson 15 titled: "Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts." I will be teaching about gifts of the spirit. Now i have been taught about the gifts of the spirit all my life and i know that they are mentioned 3 times in 3 different books of scripture. Corinthians, Doc and Cov and the Book of Mormon. I could recite to you what theses gifts are as well. Yet, tonight as i have revisited this topic and really tried to see what the Lord would have taught to the YSA ward in a week about gifts of the spirit, i have been touched beyond description with the spirit. There is a video presentation that brought me to tears called, "A Man without Eloquence." Here is a link to watch it.
https://www.lds.org/
How simple it was for this timid man to use his precious gift of the spirit to touch a future Prophet of the Lord! Another story that i read in the lesson manual is as follows:
“As we were busily preparing for a Christmas dinner, my teenage sister excitedly reached into the cupboard for the silver-rimmed china. The lovely … set had been Grandmother’s wedding present to Mom and Dad and was used only on special occasions. But as my sister removed some of the precious plates from the cupboard, she bumped her arm and the china slipped from her hands. Her desperate attempts to recover the plates were in vain, and the crash of china shattering on the floor was as heartbreaking as the look of helpless horror on her face.
“Mother’s meal-preparing hands stopped in midair, and the festive chatter of a bustling household ceased as we all stood frozen in awful silence. Without turning around to see the damage, Mother quietly slipped out of the room. Then … the rest of us tried to resume the tempo of our holiday duties.
“Except my sister. She stood motionless, a big tear trickling down her cheek. As another tear fell, she mechanically found the broom and dustpan and began sweeping up the scattered chips. Then on her knees, she slowly picked up the larger pieces and carefully placed them in the dustpan.
“Within a few minutes Mother returned to the kitchen and wrapped her arms around her grieving daughter. My sister began to sob out loud. … Quietly [Mother] soothed, ‘That’s all right, honey; people are more important than things.’
“Mother later told me that she had gone into the other room to pray and was blessed with a peaceful feeling and the inspiration of how to comfort my sister. The gift of spiritual perspective given to my mother that Christmas day became the most priceless gift our family received”
I am not sure why this story touched me so... perhaps it is because i had been in the shoes of the teenage girl who broke the plates... or maybe because i want to be as faithful and strong as the mother to control her own feelings and be able to act out of faith and comfort the very person whom the blame for the trouble was upon. All i know is that Heavenly Father is trying to teach me something from these two lesson materials.
It is amazing how the Lord works with those who are called to teach his gospel to his children. I feel so humbled and blessed to be trusted by him to do so. I look forward to many more lessons to prep! I absolutely love my calling, i love this gospel, and i love my God and his Son Jesus Christ!
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