Show Notes for Episode 20 of the Teach Me to Walk in the Light Podcast. Learn how charity is not a single act of kindness but it is something that we become. Plus a teaching tip on how we cannot teach something we do not know and a fun easy game your family will love! This episode goes along with the Come, Follow Me – for Individuals and Families for the week of August 26 – September 1, 2019. 

 

 

 

 

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**This Episode goes along with the Come, Follow Me – For Individuals and Families for the week of August 26 – September 1, 2019.  

 

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PERSONAL STUDY [1:30]

1.For another topic discussed this week, found in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, check out this great resource called The Race. Click HERE

2. President Hinckley’s story:

“We recently visited an old friend in southern India….He works as an accountant in a cement plant in that part of the world. His salary is meager—less than the salary that some of you get pushing brooms around this campus. His house is small; it would fit into the front room of the homes that most of you come from. But his heart is large and overflowing. Out of a great love for others that has come of the gospel of Jesus Christ, he has built with his own hands, on a piece of ground he bought from his savings, a school. It is a simple, rough building; but here some four hundred poor children are being brought out of the darkness of illiteracy into the light of learning. What this will mean in their lives is almost beyond calculation. And near the school is another small building which he constructed with his own hands. It is an orphanage with forty-five little children, tiny babies and children up to five years of age, unwanted by others, cast away by their parents. As my wife looked at them lying on boards because he could not afford cots or mattresses, the tears welled in her eyes. But a man with a great heart and a thin purse sees those tiny undernourished babies as children of God, and feels a great and compelling responsibility to do something to help them.”  *For his full talk, click HERE

3. President Hinckley also said: 

“….Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.”

4. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth…

5. Self-evaluation of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, click HERE

6. President Henry B. Eyring taught: “The Apostle Paul was telling us how to love in a world of imperfect people, including ourselves”

7. Jeffrey R. Holland said: “Imperfect people are all God has ever had to work with. This must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it.” (*For his full talk, click HERE)

8. President Monson said:

“Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.” (“Charity Never Faileth,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2010, 124.)

9. Sister Silvia H. Allred taught:

“When we have charity, we are willing to serve and help others when it is inconvenient and with no thought of recognition or reciprocation. We don’t wait to be assigned to help, because it becomes our very nature. As we choose to be kind, caring, generous, patient, accepting, forgiving, inclusive, and selfless, we discover we are abounding in charity.” (*For full talk click HERE)

10. I love those who do even the simplest things without being asked but do them just because it’s the right, kind-hearted thing to do. For instance, just last week my daughter was watering one of our trees out front. It’s a fairly young tree and she was filling it’s water-well underneath. Well, she left the water on and forgot about it. My neighbor, Shanon, didn’t just look at it and go, “Hmmmm, they’re going to have quite the puddle in their yard.” Nor did she knock on my door or text me and say, “Hey you need to turn your water off.” She kindly and simply went over and turned it off for me. Because she is just kind like that. She sees someone in need and she helps. Charity is a part of who she is.

11. Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught:

“In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something…The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of God are supposed to become. …Charity is something one becomes.” (*For full talk, click HERE)

12. A Heart Like His by Virginia Hinckley Pearce

In this book Virginia talks about an experiment she did with some of her friends. The purpose of their experiment was “to open their hearts to others in the hopes that they could feel the love of the Lord more fully in their lives.”

They had 3 rules to their experiment:

1. To be more aware of their hearts and with that awareness, keep their hearts more open towards others.
2. 2. To do this experiment in the normal course of their lives, or in other words, no putting any extra activities into their day—no extra visits, no preparing of casseroles, etc..
3. Notice the Spirit

When the experiment was over, this is what Virginia reported on. She said one morning when she was very busy as usual, her neighbor who she visit taught stopped by to drop something off. Virginia really only did see this neighbor once a month during her monthly visits. Just as Virignia was about to say “Thanks for dropping it off and see you later” thoughts of the experiment came to her mind and she decided to invite her neighbor in. Virginia says, “We sat down in the living room and chatted away. We ended up laughing and talking comfortably for a few minutes, and then she went on her way.” “Maybe I’m making too much out of this, but I have a feeling that everything is just a little different for the two of us now.” We are regular friends now.

13. Another woman shared an example of when her and her husband were having troubles before they divorced and how on the outside they seemed fine to the rest of the world but on the inside she was hurting so badly. She said everything was painful, especially coming to church. Someone asked her, “What could we at church have done for you that would have made it easier?” The woman didn’t hesitate when she responded, “All I wanted, all I needed, was for people to be kind. There was so little kindness in my life.”

14. At a TOFW that I went to, Hilary Weeks spoke of an experiment she did but with her experiment she would pray each morning asking her Father in Heaven what she could do to serve someone that day. She said two of her most special experiences involved emailing an old friend and leaving a caring note on her daughter’s bed.

15. Charity is not a single act of service, it is simply opening your heart to others.

16. How does one make charity a part of them? Just like faith, we must first possess the desire. It must be a true desire of our hearts. We also know that charity is a divine gift and divine gifts we must seek and pray for. Mormon tells us in Moroni 7:48 that we should “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that [we] may be filled with this love.”

17. Christ showed by example when He lived upon the earth how to live a life of charity when he showed compassion for the sick and the afflicted, the homeless, the hungry, and the sinners. He ministered to the poor, the rich, and the middle class. He forgave everyone, even those who offended Him and abused Him. He suffered and died for every man, woman and child. His love knows no bounds. It is who Christ is and always will be, now and forever, and it can become a part of who you are as well.

 

TIP: You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know

MY QUESTION TO YOU: How much time are you giving yourself each day to study the scriptures?

If you are someone that knows you should be making time for personal scripture reading but you just don’t have the time to do it, I want you to please consider making a goal to do it every day even if it’s just for 10 minutes a day.

10 minutes a day x 365 days = 3,650 minutes. That’s a little over 60 hours. Imagine what you can learn and how 3,650 minutes of scripture reading could affect your life. There is so much more you can learn in 3, 650 minutes of scripture study than you can in 0.

3,650 minutes x 5 years = 18,250 minutes or over 304 hours. That is a lot of positive spiritual uplifting learning you could receive by just 10 minutes a day.  

D&C 88:11 it reads:  

11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;

That’s the wonderful thing about the Spirit. He can quicken our understanding. So if you’re thinking 10 minutes is not enough time to really learn anything, you’re wrong. The Spirit can quicken our understanding so that we can learn faster than the natural man in us can.

Personal study is crucial in being an effective teacher. Whether it’s answering a tough gospel question a child might ask you or consoling a friend dealing with a trial, to be effective – to know what to say- you have to have learned it yourself.

The Lord usually doesn’t just give you words to say – though sometimes that has happened – more times than not he will bring things to your remembrance that you have already learned.

Personal study – whether it’s 10 minutes or 30 minutes a day – is of such great importance when it comes to being a teacher. Remember, you can’t teach what you don’t know.

 

#taketimeforfamily [24:12]

Fortunately, Unfortunately *Check out my post called Fortunately, Unfortunately by clicking HERE

Start off by establishing a clear playing order – who’ll go first, second, third and so forth. Then proceed to tell a story, with each person saying one sentence at a time. Here’s the catch: each sentence must start with either “fortunately” or “unfortunately,” always alternating between the two.

Here is how a sample game might go:

The first player, Rachel, starts out the story by saying a simple statement of fact, like “One day I got a new puppy.” 

The next player, Brad, would then add a sentence onto the story, but he has to start the sentence with unfortunately, like “Unfortunately, he ran away.”

Then it’s Katie’s turn, but she has to start a sentence with fortunately like “Fortunately, he came back the next day with a 100 dollar bill.”

The next player would say an unfortunately sentence, like “Unfortunately, the 100 dollar bill was a counterfeit and the cops nabbed me for it when I tried to use it to buy a pet canary.”

It is always fun to see where the story ends up.

Whenever you want to end the story, end it and start a new one.

 

Yours Truly,

 

 

 

 

 

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