Serving His People A Letter To Elder Hawley 4/16/18

Hi Elder,

 

How are you doing? How was your week? We miss getting your weekly updates. We appreciate that you are super busy and involved, but we hope you will still write us what you are doing each week so we can add to your "mission stories".

 

Life continues to be super busy for us as well. We are doing good, though. The kids are working hard to keep up their grades and make it through the last term of the school year. Megan actually has three jobs right now. She is working on Saturday mornings at a dog grooming place, Cross E Ranch on Fridays and Saturday afternoon/evening through April, and she got hired on last week at Genuine Comfort HVAC doing office work helping the office manager.

Our weather has been the typical crazy Utah Spring weather. One day raining or snowing, another day 70 degrees and sunny. How has your weather been? 

Scriptures and thoughts for this week:

When we help one another, we serve God. (What a great way you are helping by serving a mission). King Benjamin, a great king in Book of Mormon times, taught his people this principle by the way he lived. He served them all his life, earning his own living instead of being supported by the people. In an inspired sermon he explained why he loved service, saying:

Mosiah 2:17-18...17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. 18 And if I, whom ye call your king, do labor to serve you, then ought not ye to labor to serve one another?

Thomas S. Monson said, "Perhaps when we come face to face with our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold?' But rather, 'How many people did you HELP?' In reality, you cannot love the Lord until you serve Him by serving His people."

Elder Jose L. Alonso said, "I know that our Heavenly Father and His son, Jesus Christ love us and are willing to help us to act as we love one another as They have loved us. I know that by serving and forgiving others with real love, we can be healed and receive the strength to overcome our own challenges."

Dieter F. Uchtodorf said, "By becoming the answer to someone's PRAYER we often find the answer to our own."

We hope you have a great week! We are proud of you, love and miss you a ton!

Your Family