Preparing For Service

Abundant lives are full of teaching and learning. We need to learn all we can so we can be used by the Lord to accomplish His work. We never know what opportunities will present themselves. Whenever I read the following scripture, I think of Joe and how his lifetime of learning prepared him to serve the Lord on our mission. He was inexplicably invited to be part of the "Lunch Bunch" and meet weekly with the Bahamas' leading clergymen, politicians, and businessmen. Many in this group were initially antagonistic towards The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joe's life experiences, and the wisdom gained, served him - and the Lord - well. 

"And I give unto you a commandment that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom. Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand; 

"Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms —

"That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you."  Doctrine and Covenants  88:77–80