Mariah has been doing everything she can for a while to earn a new guinea pig. I have concluded that I’m probably ready to have a new one in the house and Mariah has done research and compiled a book on caring for guinea pigs. Today we finished constructing a larger cage since her research indicated that they needed more area than the cages we had before. (We made it by combining the existing cages.) Finally this evening she went with Laura to look at what was available? They found a gray guinea pig that Mariah loved. The funny thing was that I had thought within the last 48 hours about a gray guinea pig and I remembered wanting one on one of our previous times looking for one – I guess this was meant to be. She is named Ruby.
Besides Ruby, we also discovered this morning that during the wind last night that we slept through in the tent, one of it trees in the front yard blew over. We spent much of the day cleaning it up.
Notes from Stake Leadership Meeting (Interactive discussion about ministering)
Do you let people minister to you? Are you honest about your needs?
Sometimes a small help that might seem too little to matter can have an outsized impact.
The difference between friendship and ministering is in the invitations to come unto Christ. (From Elder Uchtdorf)
What would happen if we abandoned formal ministering assignments and simply food regular minuting interviews where we ask each person who they have ministered to (and how) and who has ministered to them (and how). Then we would want to find ways to fill in ministering gaps which were exposed by their process. It would illuminate the social capital landscape.
Ministering requires that we know a person.
In Utah we have been asked to replace the term “missionary work” with the term “ministering to all.”
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