Little things!

I am still working on this Journey.  I have been called to serve in the Sunday School of my LDS Ward.  I am teaching the 12 year olds which is a new experience for me, because my prior class was 18.  I do wonder ALL the time what I am supposed to be learning with each new experience I am given.  I scratch my head all the time because this one I am dumb founded.  The 18 year olds were so in to my lessons, and they participated and truly wanted to understand the scriptures.  This last week was my first lesson, I put the only boy in the class of girls TO SLEEP!  He even had the red mark on his forhead. 

The Church has changed the way we teach the youth.  I love the program, I just have to figure out how it is going to work with these "babes" in the program.

So, this last week as I have thought about the service and truly learning more about my Savior, it has been rough!  Our Bishop, whom I love, is being released.  This man has served me with so much love and compassion.  My life will never be the same.  It is easy, when we are emotionally overwhelmed, to lose ourselves in ourselves. 

Our dear neighbor moved out of the ward and had some canned food (A LOT) that she did not want to put in her pantry because the expiration date was coming soon so she brought it up to me.  I had looked at the food for well over a week.  I needed to sort thru it.  I finally couldn't stand it and sorted thru it.  My pantry was pretty full and I gave food to 2 other families before I sorted.  I just decided, I was going to box it up and take it around to the neighbors until it was gone!  Guess what!  I did it.  The 2nd home I went to is a young family.  They are not members of our church.  I don't even know their names, we have just stopped and talked on the sidewalk.  They were so grateful for the food that guess what?  I went back home and grabbed more from my own pantry.  I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I have been blessed BEYOND MEASURE.  We live in an awesome ward and people have been so generous to us.  I have been blessed to be able to go to the Bishop's Storehouse.  It is truly a humbling experience.  Because I have the Bishop's Storehouse, my family will not go hungry.

Another experience that has touched my heart- I am a Visiting Teacher to a single Mom.  She moved in to the ward and told the Relief Society President that she didn't want a Visiting Teacher because she did not want an "assigned friend".  Well, she is right down my alley because neither do I, so my sweet Relief Society President asked me to watch over her.  I love this woman.  I don't take an Ensign to her home and teach her, I sit with her, I text her, I help her when she needs help (and even when she doesn't) .  That really is Visting Teaching, but don't tell her :) !  She is having some legal issues with her ex husband.  This sweet woman texted me telling me she needed help from 2 men.  Well, that's not difficult, so I found her the 2 men that she needed for protection.  You would have thought I handed her a million dollars.  She was so grateful for my help, and I didn't need to do anything but find the 2 men!  That is what the Savior meant when he said "inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my bretheren, ye have done it unto me!".  See how much I have been blessed?