Institute 5-11-23
What Lack I Yet?
Ask Heavenly Father what I need to do next.
Talk by Elder Lawrence, What Lack I Yet?
Thoughts: Dedicated a temple. You have dedicated a temple. It's who you are.
The widow's mite. If you can donate a temple, great. If you can donate a story to your child, great. It's what you can donate.
What could I give that's of any value?
Elder Scott: Ask the Lord. Write it down. Pray again and ask if there is more.
Leave all for my sake. With such are all things possible. Law of consecration.
Laborer's in the Vineyard:
Sister Johnson: I covenanted in the temple long ago. It wasn't a question if I would accept. To serve God is a privilege.
We are in a way the late laborers. We benefit from the early pioneers that sacrificed so much. "We live on the shoulders of giants."
Truth is truth but we have been admonished to be kind.
Self image is our relationship with the world. Self esteem is our relationship with God.
Experience of being at temple, Flowers, poppies, In Flanders Fields, thinking of Grandma, each flower representing those who have gone before. We are all beneficiaries. I hope I can do justice to the work they established.
Deeds will be no less valiant because they go unnoticed.
