I receive a new FHE email every Monday morning from LDS Living. It is great. They have a downloadable PDF lesson that you can print out or save to your computer for use at a later time. Today's was on the Sacrament. I thought I would share the sweet story with you......."My introduction to the welfare program came when I was a deacon at twelve years of age. The bishop asked that I take the sacrament to a bedfast brother who longed for thisblessing. The morning was sunny, and I didn't mind missing my Sunday School class to walk the threequarters
of a mile distance from the chapel, down the street, across the railroad tracks to the modest
residence. I knocked at the kitchen door and heard a feeble voice say, "Come in."
I entered the kitchen, then moved to the bedside of Brother Edward Wright. When I uncovered the sacrament, he asked if I would place a piece of bread in his shaking hand and press the cup of water to his trembling lips. His gratitude overwhelmed me. The Spirit of the Lord came over me. I stood on sacred ground.
Brother Wright then asked that I sit and stay awhile. He said, "Tommy, this church is divine. The love the members have one for another is an inspiration. Take, for example, our Relief Society president, Sister Balmforth. Do you know what she did one week many years ago? She took her little red wagon, went to members' homes, and gathered a jar of peaches here, a can of vegetables there, and brought to my cupboard shelves the food that sustained me." I remember that Brother Wright cried as he told of the experience and described watching the Relief Society president walk away from his home pulling behind her, over the bumpy railroad tracks, the red wagon of mercy. I left that humble home and skipped back to the chapel—the same chapel where, ten years later, I would be sustained as the bishop, presiding over a membership that, more than any other in the Church, needed the welfare program."
(Thomas S. Monson, Inspiring Experiences That Build Faith: From the Life and Ministry of Thomas S. Monson, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994].)
Go to http://www.ldsliving.com/e/2009/fhe/FHE030109.pdf to print off this lesson about the Sacrament and they even have a yummy recipe: Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Rolls to go along with it! Yum!
of a mile distance from the chapel, down the street, across the railroad tracks to the modest
residence. I knocked at the kitchen door and heard a feeble voice say, "Come in."
I entered the kitchen, then moved to the bedside of Brother Edward Wright. When I uncovered the sacrament, he asked if I would place a piece of bread in his shaking hand and press the cup of water to his trembling lips. His gratitude overwhelmed me. The Spirit of the Lord came over me. I stood on sacred ground.
Brother Wright then asked that I sit and stay awhile. He said, "Tommy, this church is divine. The love the members have one for another is an inspiration. Take, for example, our Relief Society president, Sister Balmforth. Do you know what she did one week many years ago? She took her little red wagon, went to members' homes, and gathered a jar of peaches here, a can of vegetables there, and brought to my cupboard shelves the food that sustained me." I remember that Brother Wright cried as he told of the experience and described watching the Relief Society president walk away from his home pulling behind her, over the bumpy railroad tracks, the red wagon of mercy. I left that humble home and skipped back to the chapel—the same chapel where, ten years later, I would be sustained as the bishop, presiding over a membership that, more than any other in the Church, needed the welfare program."
(Thomas S. Monson, Inspiring Experiences That Build Faith: From the Life and Ministry of Thomas S. Monson, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994].)
Go to http://www.ldsliving.com/e/2009/fhe/FHE030109.pdf to print off this lesson about the Sacrament and they even have a yummy recipe: Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Rolls to go along with it! Yum!
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