Sister Beck

This morning I had the opportunity to go to a training meeting with Sister Julie B Beck, our General Relief Society President. It was amazing. She opened it up for questions, anyone who had them. I wanted to get up and ask why infertility, and how can I still feel like I"m apart of Heavenly Father's plan, but I'm to big of a chicken to stand up and I waited far too long. :) The amazing things was that as the other questions were being answered mine was also answered. One thing I wanted to mention right now was the three purposes of RS:
1- Increase Faith in Jesus Christ
2- Strengthen home and families
3- Find and help those with needs

Number three really stuck out at me as the meeting went on. Sister Beck told of a lady whose husband had left her. She moved and in the ward she was in the attitude was that of "we have too many single mothers" As she was in her sad/dark moment one day in church they announced that sister so and so had had a baby. This sister thought "I'm going to take her a meal." She wasn't assigned, she wasn't her visiting teacher; but she did anyway. Things continued this way for awhile and soon the ward wasn't thinking of her as a single mother but as a sister.

Sister Beck said, "you can't assume that the person you are talking to doesn't have a need, everyone has a need." Always.

I need to continue to work on this value. I need to forget myself and my needs and go to work, the rest will follow.