Tag: Service
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Making Time to JustServe
“Sometimes we can get into the mindset that there isn’t any good in the world,” remarked JustServe Specialist Brittany Pratt. She continued, “Being in my [JustServe] calling, I get to see so many people in the community trying their best every day . . . I am in awe of the nonprofits we have in…
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In the Path of Their Duty: Rick Steinmetz & Jayson Burtoft
In Doctrine & Covenants section 46, the Lord details a list of spiritual gifts (see also 1 Corinthians 12, Moroni 10). Many of the gifts listed are familiar to believers, such as the gift of faith, the gift of healing, and the gift of tongues. In verse 15 it reads, “And again, to some it…
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Give Life to the Fullest
My nine-year-old daughter was adamant: she did not want to attend the birthday party with her younger siblings. She wanted to go to the blood drive with her dad. It sounds odd, until you realize that it wasn’t the blood drive itself that she was drawn to (and no, OneBlood has not lowered its donation…
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Embrace the Good
During COVID closure days of 2020, Elders Quorum President Rick Williams in the Lake Toho Ward began to see many Facebook posts about an effort in the Celebration area to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and take them to families that had been displaced from their jobs and were living in motels along highway…
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Becoming His Hands
In his April 2010 General Conference address You Are My Hands, Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf stated, “True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long—we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it—but until we manifest that love in action, our…
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