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What a thought-provoking article from LDS.org. Even when we think we are humbly serving the Lord, sometimes pride can sneak up on us.
Get the full lesson "The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood" from the Teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith at LDS.org.
The humility, the humor, and the charity of God's chosen Church leaders simply blows me away. Nothing illustrates this better than a short story President Henry B. Eyring recently posted on Facebook:
Beards are a tricky topic to discuss within LDS culture. It’s one of those taboo topics like caffeine and R-rated movies. Other than BYU’s Honor Code and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir standards (which aren't Church doctrine), and the rules for missionaries and temple workers, I’m almost positive there’s no official Church statement on whether or not male members can sport facial hair.
As I have put together [a] series [of articles] on singles [in the Church], a theme has emerged. This theme has run through all articles and all experiences; it is the same theme I hear in conversation with single friends: condescension. Single members feel a sense of pity, shunning, and lower status in the church. Leaders and married members may or may not feel disregard for or disappointment in their single brothers and sisters, but they do communicate the message.
"The only time I had prayed was if I was getting pulled over or arrested," Nick Watts aid after he met with the missionaries. "I was like, ‘What do I pray about?’ I remember praying and just saying that I was sorry. There was a long list of things I needed to say sorry for. I remember praying and all of a sudden I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t think, I couldn’t move, I could only laugh—that’s it. I felt this overwhelming feeling of happiness and I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness. This is it. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.’”
While many of us might remember hearing about the life-changing letter President Gordon B. Hinckley received while serving a mission in England, there's much of the story you might not have known.
Speaking at the BYU baseball program’s First Pitch fund-raising dinner in January 2016, Morris was quoted by the Daily Universe as saying, “And to this day, I want you to know how proud I am to say I went to school here.”
Just over two years ago, I returned home from serving a mission in Frankfurt, Germany. I also have a younger sister serving in the Russia, Moscow mission right now. We’re the only two girls in our immediate and extended families to serve missions, so the points below are things that have mattered most to the two of us in sustaining support from our family while serving the Lord. (Most of these ideas also apply to Elders.)
Manual 1; Excerpt from "Finding Joy in the Journey," by President Thomas S. Monson