On Sunday it was my turn to teach the Relief Society Lesson. I got to choose the topic so since our relief society hasn't been doing fantastic at visiting teaching I thought I would choose that for a topic. It turned out to not be that bad, I think. One of the sisters brought up that a lot of the time we don't allow our visiting teachers to serve us. Ouch!! Just last month I told one of my visiting teachers to please not bring me a dinner. I was actually pretty insistent because I was feeling guilty for all the nice things that people had done for me the last few months. I thought that it would be too much work for this sister and I didn't want her to do it. I feel bad now that I didn't let her because I was depriving her of the blessings that come through service.
I also said something during the lesson that I wish I could take back. I said that I had gained more through being a visiting teacher than through being the one who was visited. I shouldn't have said that. I have felt so much love and support this past year than I have ever felt in Relief Society. When I lost the baby earlier this year and then again when Kate was born I felt truly buoyed up by my sisters in the gospel. It really touches my heart to think of all the acts of kindness and all the prayers that were said and done on mine and my family's behalf. I am so grateful for the friendships that I have in this ward. I hope that they realize that every small and large act of kindness meant so much to me! I know, though, that I haven't been near as good a friend as the examples that have been demonstrated to me. I am so sorry!! I always struggle to not only think more of others, but to actually get up and do more to help and to just be more charitable and more like my Savior.
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