Friday, August 22, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
August Presidency Message
Sisters I am so excited to hear that L. Tom Perry is presiding at our
Stake Conference on August 9th - 10th.
My husband and I were visiting an inactive sister last week and as he shared the home teaching message about Family History her face lit up. She said that she loved Family History and excitedly told us that her cousin in Idaho had just been sharing stories with her and she especially loved hearing ones about her mother as she had only been 9 when her mother passed away. Scott informed her that there was a Family History Center at the Stake Center. I felt prompted at that time to mention that church meetings start at 1:00 pm each Sunday if she had been thinking about wanting to attend. She nodded that she had been thinking about it. Then worried that she might show up to an empty building on the second Sunday in August I quickly told her that it would be at the Stake Center at 10:00 am that day as it was Stake Conference. When I told her that one of the apostles would be attending her face lit up once again and she responded that she would call her ex mother-in-law to see if they could go together. We said that they were announcing the apostles name on Sunday and would be sure to let her know who it was.
On my way home that night I realized how much that information meant to that sister and vowed then that I would go out visiting teaching early in August so that my sisters know they have the opportunity to be in the same room as an apostle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Tonight while looking up information about L. Tom Perry I feel inspired to print and share some of the following along with the Visiting Teaching Message in August.
https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/what-are-prophets/bio/l-tom-perry?lang=eng
May we be the best visiting teachers that we can be.
Love,
Sister Best
Second Counselor Centralia Stake Relief Society.
My husband and I were visiting an inactive sister last week and as he shared the home teaching message about Family History her face lit up. She said that she loved Family History and excitedly told us that her cousin in Idaho had just been sharing stories with her and she especially loved hearing ones about her mother as she had only been 9 when her mother passed away. Scott informed her that there was a Family History Center at the Stake Center. I felt prompted at that time to mention that church meetings start at 1:00 pm each Sunday if she had been thinking about wanting to attend. She nodded that she had been thinking about it. Then worried that she might show up to an empty building on the second Sunday in August I quickly told her that it would be at the Stake Center at 10:00 am that day as it was Stake Conference. When I told her that one of the apostles would be attending her face lit up once again and she responded that she would call her ex mother-in-law to see if they could go together. We said that they were announcing the apostles name on Sunday and would be sure to let her know who it was.
On my way home that night I realized how much that information meant to that sister and vowed then that I would go out visiting teaching early in August so that my sisters know they have the opportunity to be in the same room as an apostle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Tonight while looking up information about L. Tom Perry I feel inspired to print and share some of the following along with the Visiting Teaching Message in August.
https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/what-are-prophets/bio/l-tom-perry?lang=eng
May we be the best visiting teachers that we can be.
Love,
Sister Best
Second Counselor Centralia Stake Relief Society.
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