Strengthen our brothern

I shared a message for my sisters last month for visiting teaching. It was by the Prophet Thomas S. Monson Sunday morning session. It was talking about being strong and faithful. He shared a story about 3 men. One of them was 17 when he joined the church in Germany during WW1 then he moved to Hungry shortly after joining the church. He felt like he was alone the church because they didn’t really have the church in Hungry at that time. Fast forward some years later and another gentleman gets his home teaching route (that is where men in my church are assigned to visit families to make sure they are ok) and calls his companion to ask him when they could go to visit this gentlemen. They said they would go the next day. They would be gone for a week “if” they made it back. They would have to take a train and a bus to get to this brothers house. They get to his house and want to shake his hand, but the brother says just a second I need to get something. He went to his room and pulled out a box from under his bed and he had been saving his tithing all those years. He gave it to his home teachers. He then would shake their hands because the felt like he was in good standing with the Lord now. That made me think if this guy could save what little money that he was making and give it to the Lord when he didn’t even know if he was going to see anyone to give it to or that he might need the money for himself. What am I doing to show the Lord that I am faithful to him? It also made me think the two home teachers had to travel for days to see this guy. They had to spend time and money to go and see this guy not knowing if they would make it back, but do I sometimes have a hard time driving for five minus to go and do my visiting teaching (this is where ladies in my church go and visit other ladies to make sure that they are ok). What sacrifice am I willing to make for the sake of His church. Am I willing to do all things? Am I willing to go and visit the active sisters or am I willing to visit the less active ones too? I am setting a goal to visit whoever is on my list. They were put on my list for a reason and I need to take care of them too. They are children of my Heavenly Father and they need me to talk to them. Who knows maybe I need them too. I have made some good friendships from being a visiting teacher. If the Lord was here then he would be doing the same thing too. He would be visiting all people and I need to do the same. I have a friend who is not a member in my church (The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints) she had told me that she was sick so I decided that I was going to make her some soup. I just got what I had in the house to make it. I put chicken, rice, carrots, corn, and part of a green pepper in it. I then made chicken broth with crushed red peppers. She said that she loved it and that no one had ever done that for her before. That made me feels great that I could help her and do what Jesus would do if he were here. I hope that she will want to listen to the missionaries. I am going to invite her family to come to Alex’s baptism and hopefully they will feel the spirit and want to learn more. She is a very strong catholic, but would make a great member she is super nice and would do anything for anyone.