It started with me leaving the house at 5:40a off to the Stk Center...here was the events of my day.
6:00a - Stake Council Meeting
8:30a - Ward Council Meeting with my assigned ward
11:00a - My home ward Sacrament meeting
12:15 - Teach the Gospel Principles class - lesson 15 on Covenant People.
1:00-4:00p - Ward Conference with my assigned ward
4:30p - Home teaching my favorite Sister in the Ward
5:40p Head to Lake Oswego (just south of the where the Portland Temple is located)
7:00p - Fireside for Temple Workers and their spouses with Elder Gregory Schwitzer
9:40p - walk in my front door and go to bed.
Other than the 5 minutes I was home to make a sandwich and run out the door for my home teaching visit - I was gone from 5:40a to 9:40p - a new person record.
A few of things that I learned:
1. Our ward mission leader told me he prayed about who should teach the Gospel Principles class and told me he only could think of me...so he ask. Throughout the week I kept asking myself why me. When I studied and prepped, I kept thinking what can I give to the class. After the lesson was over I felt it was a good lesson with good interaction. At the end of the day when I was driving home from the temple it hit me...the reason I was asked to teach that lesson had only a small part with actually teaching the class. There were 3 separate times through the day that I was able to share specific answers and testimony about being a Covenant People and the Abrahamic Covenant.
2. Our Stake President Bruce Randall (some of you have met him at a wedding or church - he was also my boss at work) said if you remember that everyone is a child of God and picture them in white you will treat them as a brother or sister.
3. Elder Schwitzer taught us the 4 "C's" -- Commandments lead to Conversion which leads to Covenants which lead to Consecration. It was a great fireside with a Stake Center full of temple workers.
