My Random Blogging Therapy
The senior companion opened with prayer, askingfor help. Then he said something like this to my son: “I think we shouldteach a lesson that will sound to this family like a call to repentance. Ithink they won’t take it very well from me. I think they would take themessage better from you. How do you feel about that?”
I remember the terror in my son’s eyes. I can still feel the happiness ofthat moment when my son accepted the trust.
That is why the scriptures are so important to prepare us in thepriesthood. They are filled with examples.
A father or a bishop or a senior home teaching companion who showsthat he trusts a young priesthood holder can change his life. My fatherwas once asked by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles towrite a short paper on science and religion. My father was a famousscientist and a faithful priesthood holder. But I can still remember themoment he handed me the paper he had written and said, “Here, before Isend this to the Twelve, I want you to read it. You will know if it is right.”He was 32 years older than me and immeasurably more wise andintelligent.
You will remember the Lord’s counsel: “Reproving betimes withsharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forthafterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lesthe esteem thee to be his enemy
President Eyring repeated a lot of stories from a former talk. BUUUT there was still new stuff I enjoyed and learned from.
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