1 Nephi 4:6
"6 And I was led by the Spirit, not
knowing beforehand the things which I should do."
6:10pm.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Sometimes I look back on things that
have happened and I think, and all that
happened with me “not knowing
beforehand the things which I should
do."?
Don’t
you just love it when it seems like it was all guided according to HF’s will? That is just one of the all time thrills of
my life!
This
is the second time I am applying it to a situation in my life. I sat in the car after arriving home from the
WCLibrary where I printed of 20 pages of letter and conference talks(3pages-3talks) = 17 from me. As I leaned back in my seat to
pray I started laughing. HF did that just happen? Besides the letter (2 stamps)
I sent him a Christmas card and 2 pages copied out of the January Friend, 2015, the coloring
page and the faith story. Pg 35 and 21 or something. I had written on the
coloring page that with all the intensity of the conference talks maybe some
coloring would be appropriate. And on the back of the card I wrote how Paul and
Joseph of Egypt and Joseph Smith all spent long boring times in jail or prison
but look what we got from them in the way of scripture.
Finally,I
had to write something in the card. I told him to pick his favorite Christmas
hymn, all the verses, and imagine me singing it to him and then he and I
harmonizing and singing parts where ever we wanted. “Can you imagine that all
the way through?” I asked him.
Now
I want to know what hymn it was? : )
The
first time I experienced this was when I was teaching Brock Buckway’s course 14
or 15 SS class. We met at the top of the south stairs and they had sustained Patzy
Lamb as a spy and teacher development teacher. She kept getting assigned to
come to my class. I suspect that someone was reporting to their parents that
they didn’t like how I managed/taught the class. I was suffering depression
although I did not know it. Decisions came so hard in those days. A few days
before that class. . .
For
some reason I had to be parked near Tabernacle and Main street in town. Laundry
comes to mind but I don’t remembering having to do laundry. I was hunting for
something and saw a stationary and specialty store with a sale on. Kathy used cute stationary with borders all the time for the kids
journals/scrapbooks! I picked all kinds of cool, way cool borders like colored
chili peppers etc.. I took them to class
and as part of the lesson I explained how I had felt guided “not knowing
beforehand the things which I should do.” I told them about how cool the
wonderful stationaries were and how delightful it is to receive encouraging
notes from others. I offered stationary
to anyone who wanted to write one or some. Brock, laid-back, hang-loose, set-the-coolness-standard Brock said he thought he could do it. I was incredulous.
What? A living icon, and also boy thought he could do it? I was meticulous in
questioning his commitment. They might have been half price but the stationary
sheets had all been the ones I liked the best and hand-picked.
I
asked Patsy what and where that scripture was and she replied, I’m not a
scriptorian! I eventually found it probably during the succeeding week. And low and behold, Brock Buckway followed
through. The icon of coolness wrote each person in the class a note of respect,
assurance and compliments. I doubt there was anyone the class members would
have rather had one from.
After
his mission I told this story to the young people’s class he was teaching in
the large Young Women’s room. I was his witness.
What
does that say about Tawna his mother? Brock had a great big heart inside that
buff exterior. His mother had nurtured it for years. She ended up doing
humanitarian project after humanitarian project for the poor and
underprivileged in his mission, while he was out.
One
of his older sisters reported to me that she had told her parents, Brother
Jensen is Brocks SS teacher? Good, finally someone who can keep him under
control. Of course, I did not know that at the time, and that was not my intent.
I just wanted to inspire them and challenge them to act on their spirituality.
I
tried to excite them about preparing for the Saint George Marathon too! But it
was to be a SS scripture, read the Book of Mormon marathon. I thought it was the most awesome idea and
told them I owned 2 trophies but that if they completed this marathon in such a
worthy cause I would give them a trophy announcing this wonderful
accomplishment. That trophy would be much more valuable than a running trophy.
It fizzled.
I
followed up each week until I could see it had died. : (
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