Service can be simple

Today the Antwerp Stake organized a service activity for the young men and young women.

I was asked to teach a teaching lesson on service. Since the audience is young people between 12 and 18, I wanted to show them that service is not  far-from-my-bed show doesn't have to be. Acts of service become much more achievable when you realize that acts of service can come in simple things and still produce great happiness.

The technology failed, so I had not yet been able to show my presentation; That's why I'm throwing them online here.

Simple service

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I hope my message came across well. Service is charity and is the core of our Christian existence. Find simple ways to help others.

To add one more thing that I didn't talk about today, here's this story that I read earlier:

A few years ago I read an article by Jack McConnell, a doctor who had grown up in the hilly southwest of Virginia, USA, in a family with seven children of a Methodist minister and a stay-at-home mother. They lived in extremely simple conditions. He remembered from his childhood that when the whole family sat down for dinner, his father would take turns asking each person, “So, what did you do for someone else today?” The children were determined to do a good deed every day so that they could tell their father that they had helped someone. Dr. McConnell calls this tradition his father's most valuable legacy, because that expectation and those words inspired him and his siblings to spend their lives helping other people. As they grew up and became older, their motivation to provide service changed into an inner desire to help other people.

So every evening before you get on your knees, ask yourself the question: “What have I done for someone else today?” It will change your life.