The Right Load

Sister Shaha, Sister Serr, and Sister Walker posted thoughts on their blogs about Elder Bednar's talk. Looks like I moved out at exactly the wrong time!

My sister-in-law did a post about her bishop's Sunday lesson where he put ping-pong balls in a jar and says 'so you put the big things in first, but what if you get another big thing that doesn't fit' (like becoming Bishop, ha ha)? So he poured them into a paint can and then brought out a 5 gal utility bucket. He said the Lord wants to stretch us.

Like Elder Bednar said, none of us are capable of what is on our plate, (or in our bucket, or in the back of our truck). But it is our faith in Christ which raises our capacity to do the vital work of these last days in each of our individual missions.

I was thinking on Sunday as I was driving back from the kid exchange about how even God suffered so much that he could not bear it. In the Garden an angel came to strengthen him. Then, he stumbled with the weight of the beam he would die on, and an ordinary human carried it for Him. Really, if it is the right load, we are the ordinary mortals carrying his burden.

Even after all the weight he carried and the hardships he endured, he said:

29 Take my ^ayoke upon you, and ^blearn of me; for I am ^cmeek and ^dlowly in ^eheart: and ye shall find ^frest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is ^aeasy, and my burden is light. (Matt. 11:29-30)

I would love to hear anything else that the rest of you gleaned from it, or how applying his counsel has helped you in the past week.

Getting Settled

We went to our new ward. It is strikingly different. Eventually we will love all of them as much as we love you. Loudmouth here got immediately urged to join choir practice after church, which I never mind, I just wonder if I shouldn't tone it down for starters more often. Because it is a smaller ward (they just got split and have Elder missionaries for each ward) it was pretty easy for me to be heard.

We love our new house and have all the necessaries unpacked and somewhat organized. We are definitely further from the action, but I can actually see the major constellations at night. It still makes me sad not to be able to see the myriad of stars that remind me of my desert mountain home.

Anyway I would love to be kept up on general ward happenings. I sent an email to Windy giving the username and password so that anyone who wanted to could invite themselves to contribute, or do a post under the CoppellRS tag. I'm not sure if she sent it out, but contact her, or me if you are interested.