Primary Sharing Time: Service
Now, I’m no Julie M. Smith, but here’s the sharing time I did last week on service. I’m usually pretty good about not using outside sources, but I just couldn’t find any LDS source that summed up the messages I wanted (a. we give help/protect/serve people who are nothing like us and b. everyone, [...]
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A few weeks ago, I was asked to speak at my home ward. It made me think of Jesus when he started his ministry in the synagogue he grew up in—it’s hard to try and act authoritative in front of people who knew you as a chatty Beehive.
I got a call from our family friend, [...]
Smart Girls
Over the weekend I visited my family and ended up in a somewhat disturbing conversation with my father about my 14-year-old sister. I had mentioned that I am considering more school, and it turned into something like this:
Dad: How come you didn’t get all your brothers and sister to be as smart as you?
Me: [...]
What’s Fair?
Life isn’t fair. My mother frequently reminded me of this fact while I was growing up. There was one particular event in high school that seemed dramatically unfair to me, so much so that I marched my usually timid, compliant self right up to the principal and gave him a piece of my mind. It [...]
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