My personal Ministry

Elder Martinez of the seventy spoke on Our Personal Ministries.  Keep these words in our minds and in our hearts “He who serves in some thing is good for something, he who serves in no thing is good for nothing.”  There is great worth in each of Heavenly Father’s children and the Savior focused on the individual and the family.  We each have a personal ministry here on this earth; we must learn to tend to the needs of others just as Christ did.  “First observe, then serve.”  Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ knows us individually and personally.  They know our needs.  They place people in our path to help us and we are placed in other people’s path to help them.  Our service and personal ministry are not limited to the living on this earth.  We can also do work for the dead by doing family history work.  But we can also minister to the living by keeping a journal of family histories to turn the hearts of the living towards the family, those living and those who have gone on before us.  We need to link our families, generation by generation.  My personal ministry is to focus on my family.  I am the welding link that holds the family together, not just my husband and children and grandchildren but our ancestors as well.  When we joined the church we were the pioneers of our families.  We were the only members on either side to join the church.  Three of us were baptized that day, Jeremy, Robert and I.  Now we have 12 of us in the church, our children, their spouses and our grandchildren.  I have given great service to my family and I try every day to serve them in some way.  I tend my grandchildren for free so their parents can have a little bit easier time of it.  My service to my children and grandchildren is given freely and with love.  My family service does not stop there.  I search out my ancestors and their children and grandchildren so that they can be together as well.  Long ago I realized that my personal ministry was to weld together our family, those in the past to those in the present to those in the future.  It is my greatest desire, to have my family all together in the Celestial Kingdom and I will spend every minute that I can working towards that goal.