Called to Serve

So things here are going well! Today has been such a WONDERFUL morning, we had a V.C. training this morning with a woman from Salt Lake who works in the missionary department. It was such an inspired training. At the end we were doing role-plays and she had two sisters get up and role play for all of us to watch, learn from, and critique. One of the Sisters pretended to be her own mother who is not a member, and the other sister tried to discern from the spirit how to help her. They both were weeping by the end as we all were. The spirit communicated to us in that sacred moment that every person who comes into the Visitors Center is a special child of God, and has a story. We should treat them all like we would our own family members. I thought of my family and how anxious I would be for them if they went into a Visitors Center. I would hope so desperately that the sister there would love them like Christ, treat them like Christ, and listen to the spirit carefully so she could know how to help them best. I would want her to be worthy in every way to receive revelation for my family and obtain blessings for them. I would want her to give them absolutely everything she had in her heart to give- and even then I would hope and worry if it would be enough. I would have to trust God to make up the rest. Understanding and feeling that desire helped me have such a better understanding of how I need to treat every person that walks through the doors of the VC and every person I meet on the street.

 

Here's a scripture for the day:

 

 

2 Nephi 2:4

 

And thou has beheld in thy youth his glory; wherefore, thou art blessed even as they unto whom he shall minister in the flesh; for the Spirit is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man, and salvation is free.

 

This is Lehi speaking to his son. I love the idea he illustrates here- that it matters not whether we lived before Christ's life, during his life, or after his life. The spirit is the same, and we can come unto him now and be blessed, just as well as we could have had he dwelt among us.