Yesterday was such a good day for me. I got to do some work that allowed me to use my brain and earn some money. I got to share a great spiritual thought with my kids. Then I got to go visit some children who, due to some boundary changes, are newly a part of our ward. These visits are always fun. At the end of the first visit, the little 9 year old girl looked at me and said, "you know I was kinda nervous about all these changes and being in a new ward. But now that you are here, I'm not nervous anymore."
Mic Drop. Mission Accomplished. Then I went to my next visit. This was to a family I had heard had never come to church. Mentally after I heard that I had put visiting them on the back burner because I had several families to visit and needed to get info out to the kids who come to church before tonight when we have our first activity days. But around mid day yesterday I felt like I should not put them on the back burner and reach out anyway. So I did.
The dad answered my phone call and agreed to let me come visit yesterday afternoon. So, I went to visit. Apparently, they only moved in a couple months ago so I went under the assumption that they were generally active but just hadn't made it to church since the move.
The visit went really well and I think the boy will come to our activity tonight. We will for sure invite him over since he is Harrison's age and new here. After a while i asked the dad (mom was in Florida visiting family right now) what kind of callings his wife liked. I had told them we were really excited to have more people to fill callings.
He said she’s mostly been in primary but YW was her favorite. I asked if he had a favorite calling or if no calling was his favorite. 😉 He chuckled but said "No i like to serve." He’s mostly been in EQ Pres HP leadership or YM when his older grown sons were in YM.
Then he said “im sure you know we have not been active recently. But if funny you called because i was just talking to my wife and she snd all my family were praying about whether to evacuate because of the hurricane snd she said she heard a voice tell her to stay. After the prayer everyone in the family had felt the same feeling to stay. And she and i were talking about how we need to go back to church. And then you called.”
I love it when I get to be a useful tool in the Lord’s hands. Really there is no better feeling in the world. So my spiritual thought for my kids this morning was to say a little prayer and go out and be a useful tool. Pray for opportunities and the ability to see where you can help or lift another, even if it is small thing like giving a compliment. Go out and make someone's day better.
