I worked at the Bountiful Food Pantry this morning and it really struck me that religious doctrine is completely hollow if we do not live a life where we do everything we can to rescue those around us who need physical or spiritual rescuing. Perhaps preparing the lesson on the Willie and martin handcart companies helped to drive that point home. it is as Brigham Young said in the October 1856 conference when he learned of the stranded companies “your faith, religion, and profession of religion, will never save one soul of you in the Celestial Kingdom of our God, unless you carry out just such principles as I am now teaching you. Go and bring in those people now on the plains.”
The food pantry was a bit disappointing in some ways because we worked making bags of food for people out of what had already been donated, but virtually nobody came to make any donations while I was there – we actually ran out of pasta and had to go home early because there was no work left to do.
As for the day, I got the oil changed, and the sprinklers fixed and then we had a fairly relaxed day. We spent most of the day just hoping that Mariah would start feeling better.
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