October Visiting Teaching Message: Enfolding with Love Those Who Stray
Enfolding
with Love Those Who Stray
Prayerfully study this material and seek for
inspiration to know what to share.
How will understanding the purpose of Relief
Society
prepare daughters of God for the blessings of eternal life?
“The reality is that there are no perfect families … ,” said
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second
Counselor in the First Presidency. “Whatever problems your family is
facing, whatever you must do to solve them, the beginning and the end of the
solution is charity, the pure love of Christ.”1
Of those who are not participating fully in the gospel,
Linda K. Burton, former General President of the Relief Society, said:
“Heavenly Father loves all His children. … No matter where they are—on or off
the path—He wants them back home.”2
“However wayward [your children] might be, … when you speak or
talk to them, do it not in anger, do it not harshly, in a condemning spirit,”
taught President Joseph F. Smith (1838–1918). “Speak to them kindly.”3
Elder Brent H. Nielson of the Seventy reiterated the
Savior’s instruction to those who have 10 pieces of silver and lose one:
“Search until you find it. When the lost one is your son or your daughter, your
brother or your sister, … after all we can do, we love that person with all of
our hearts. …
“May you and I receive the revelation to know how to best
approach those in our lives who are lost and, when necessary, to have the
patience and love of our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus
Christ, as we love, watch, and wait for the prodigal.”4
President Henry B. Eyring, First
Counselor in the First Presidency, said: “I have prayed with faith that someone
I loved would seek and feel the power of the Atonement. I have prayed with
faith that human angels would come to their aid, and they came.
Comments
Post a Comment