Chapter 15 "Feed my Sheep"

Click the link and watch this YouTube video now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZASI21QAMI Trust me, you have 13 minutes because I’m writing only a few lines today. Later this morning we’re leaving for our Mission Leader Seminar in Nashville for 5 days. (It’s such a big deal, they even pushed back our new arriving missionaries a week to accommodate our being able to participate) I‘m sure I won’t have a chance to write again until we’re back. “Feed my Sheep” was the message we shared with our youth leaders on Monday. Rick followed this video by reading a touching excerpt from the biography of Neal A. Maxwell (I included it as an attachment) And though I’d seen the video several times before and had heard the quote, it did nothing to stop the onslaught of tears that followed. Even after the closing prayer was offered, I was struggling to gain composure and had an entire box of damp keenex clenched in my hand. Missionaries closest to me gathered around and one sweet young man came up, put his arm around me and said, “Oh Sis. Colins, don’t be sad.” I smiled really big and got to teach him the same thing I had to teach my own children and grandchildren… “Tears, even ugly ones, don’t always mean your sad. Sometimes, crazy people like me cry when they‘re overcome with gratitude!” All those years I sat on the sideline- I could not be more grateful to be in the game now! God has asked us to Feed His Sheep and there’s nothing I’d rather be trusted with. No matter how plain and simple we are – we can surely do that! And for NO other reason than that WE LOVE HIM! Feed My Sheep video – Elder Holland YouTube 13.26 min begins like this…”There is almost no group in history for whom I have more sympathy than I have for the 11 remaining apostles following the death of the Savior of the world. I think we sometimes forget just how inexperienced they were and how totally dependent they had, of necessity, been. Of them he said, “Have I been so long time with thee and thou has not known me?” After such a short time to learn and even less time to prepare, the unthinkable happened, the unbelievable was true…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZASI21QAMI I’d love to know your thoughts… Good morning and have a wonderful week!