David A. Bednar: The tender mercies of the Lord are real and they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and though the Lord Jesus Christ.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Small and simple things

October 17, 2010 Paul and I were able to visit my parents on their mission in Tallahassee, Florida. That Sunday while we were there we visited the Branch that they attended. To preface this, a few year back I was the primary president in our ward. I was discouraged because we only had 40 kids in our entire primary (this is compared to the normal for the area of 100+ kids per primary). It was a challenge to do certain things because of the few children we had. While Paul and I were visiting this Branch in Southern Georgia I was humbled. I went to primary with my mom. They had 6 children there. They usually have 8. They were practicing their primary program coming up a few weeks later and I was humbled to see these children practicing and to see the primary president working with them. Because of the small size of this primary, there was only the primary president, a lady who helped, and my mom to play the piano. They were definitely challenged because of their small size! I was humbled to know that with only 8 children in their primary, they still sing their songs, they still put on a primary program, and they still have sharing time and class time. They make it work! Not much was different from my small primary of 40 children! I realized how blessed I was to have that many children in my primary! I realized that I need to always recognize and count my blessings!

Psalms 115:13 "He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great."

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