July 9, 2011

As you look back over your experiences in the Church, what lessons have you learned that you would like to pass on to your posterity?

I have learned that the harder you try to fill your callings the greater the blessings you receive from the lord. Here is a simple example from the past week.

Many times I have sat in priesthood meeting as assignments were passed out to work at the stake farm, cannery, DI or meat packing plant. As a youth and early in my marriage I spent many hours at the church farms hauling hay and weeding beets. However many times I have not been able to fill an assignment due to work. Well a couple of weeks a go the High Priests asked for volunteers to fill meat packing assignments. I knew I was currently unemployed and had the time and even though it really wasn’t on my list of things that I couldn’t wait to do I knew I could do it and so I volunteered for the 6 AM assignment. I found it to be really quite fun and I was home by 9:15 and had my entire day left to do what I needed t do here. Well that day I had four phone calls for new photography jobs. The income I received from them was far more than what I had given in service at the meat packing plant that day. You just cannot get ahead of the Lord. Always be willing to give your time to the Lord even if you don’t always recognize the blessing that I know you will receive.