SERVICE OF GOD
September 17, 2020
Basically, God can do anything. Now, there are things that He sometimes will choose not to control, like the choices that we make, or the consequences of other people's actions. But it is amazing what He will do for those who seek to do His will.
For example, some of the Sister Missionaries needed a couple extra hands to help this lady load and unload a few things from a small moving truck, so we volunteered to help out. Little did the Sisters or us know that we weren't helping the moving crew, but we WERE the moving crew! Not only that, but the process was a lot more intensive than any of us had predicted. What we thought would be maybe two hours at most ended up being a 5 and a half hour moving project, including a 10-mile drive to go and take some of these things over to a storage unit to shuffle things around befor unloading the remainder of the truck! It was crazy!
And so, where did the miracle come in? We had been seeking to do more service, because we felt like that would be good both for us and our area. The only problem was that no one we knew needed help with ANYTHING! Not only that, but things lined up perfectly, with everything falling through just right, so that we could help these Sisters help this lady. The Sister apologized for so much of our day being taken up by this one project, but there wasn't a better place where the Lord would've had us to be at that time.
There's such a great feeling that comes from working hard to help someone else! It's really a special thing! It reminds me of Mosiah 2:17 in the Book of Mormon, where a wise King and Prophet shares with his people one of the great realizations of his life, "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God!"
I know that that is true, and that as we look outside of ourselves to try and bless other's lives, we will know that we are in the service of our God!
Elder Richardson
