I taught a Relief Society lesson on Sunday. I completely biffed it. The topic was 'Jesus Christ: the Savior of the World," with two talks from April General Conference as reference (one by President Uchtdorf and one by Elder Oaks.
I hmmed and hawed, I froze up, I got sidetracked and stuck on a peripheral point. At one point, I even developed tunnel vision, when everything outside of a small round area turned dark and fuzzy. I didn't tell one personal story or make anyone laugh. It was double-ungood.
This is the point I meant to make: That we do our part by serving each other with compassion and with joy. We can know that the Savior will do his part: that he knows us, loves us, and will intervene in our lives and the lives of our loved ones, that he will truly save us. The atonement is real.
Simple, right?
You have always been an inspiration to me. I'm sure you weren't nearly as bad as you thought you were. At one time or another everybody has frozen up. And, maybe a sister really needed to hear what you said; you never know.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, I've biffed my fair share of lessons. I'm sure it wasn't as bad as it seemed.
ReplyDeleteDuring your lesson, as long as you didn't have some woman yell at you that her mother was abused and never told anyone but her family should have stepped in and taken over (this seriously happened to me while I was teaching - not a happy memory), I'd say it was successful. Don't feel too bad, we all have those Sundays.
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