Monday, March 7th
Correction Is A Beautiful Thing
This week we took advantage of the warmer weather and took a tour of a few of the sites here in Nauvoo with the site missionaries narrations. We visited the Lucy Mack Smith home and the William Weeks home. Both Dave and I are descendants of William Weeks, He, through his father's cousin's line and me through my mother's cousin's line through marriage. It was very interesting and we heard some amazing tender stories. We will be visiting more sites as we get time and nice weather.
I was able to play pickle ball on Thursday morning which was very fun and I feel like I'm getting better at it. Dave's ankle is improving and will join me in pickleball as soon as he can. Dave and I went dancing which isn't as physically demanding on his ankle on Thursday night too.
The temple has been slowly returning back to normal or pre covid ways. Which is a joyful thing. It has caused some growing pains for the workers to make the changes in how things are asked to be done. Without going into details which shouldn't be discussed I want to share how the Lord helped me with this situation.
The workers were asked to do to a very specific thing which I thought was unnecessary and awkward with my "many years" experience as an ordinance worker and I was full of pride thinking that the way I had been trained was the very best way. So I really struggled with being compliant with the request and wanted to just continued to do it the way I had always done it. To be clear, this "thing" had nothing to do with any ordinance or ceremony.
With this struggle going on inside of me I asked Heavenly Father to help me be humble and obedient. As I was working with the other sisters who were also having to adjust to this new way of being and couldn't be compliant if I wasn't, the thought came to me that I was being very selfish in continuing to do it "my way" and preventing them from feeling comfortable and confident in the method that had been requested. In my mind everyone felt as I did, that it was an awkward way to do things and we should make our opinions known.
Wow! Can you feel the pride! So, when the Spirit told me I was being selfish and keeping these other sisters from learning the new way, I was stunned and humbled. When I was able to talk with them about my feelings, they both expressed a desire to do it the way we had been asked to and felt like it was lovely and elegant. Again, I was stunned and humbled and all of my hard feelings melted off of me and I could see that they were right! I am so grateful for answers to prayers and that Heavenly Father really is so aware of us and what we are going through and we can be guided, directed and even lovingly corrected if we so desire to be.
This afternoon I get to have my tooth worked on again! One step closer to having it be completely corrected and back to normal!
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