Honor the Priesthood and Use it Well

My thoughts on Elder Scott's talk "Honor the Priesthood and Use it Well"



As the mother to five boys (three of which are Priesthood holders, one more within a year and another only a year and 5 days away) this talk hit my heart. I grew up with brothers but most of them were older than me and I really didn't understand what they had or how they might use it.



On Sunday, December 21, 2008, the snow was so deep, the roads so slick that we didn't go to church. In fact the Bishop left it up to us to decide if we would go or not. With the Bishop's permission we held our own sacrament meeting. It was so awesome to see Jason (a teacher) get a plate, a slice of bread, a cookie sheet and 8 Tupperware cups of water and place them on the kitchen table. He then found two white table clothes and draped them over the sacrament. Then Kray (a priest) and my husband said the sacrament prayers. Then Mike (a deacon) passed the sacrament to his family. There is no word in the English language to express the power in my house that day. Four members of my family were providing the most importance ordinance outside the temple that the Lord has given to man!

I then used a conference address (Elder Hamula "Winning the War against Evil") as a talk. And then Jessie (age 8) bore her testimony. She also lead the music for the meeting. It was just so powerful!

As much as I hated missing the Sunday before Christmas it was cool to have it in my home. I don't think that will ever happen again in my family's life.

Cool!