Quoted

Today at church a young woman quoted me in her sacrament meeting talk. "I am concerned when we suggest that the Atonement is anything other than infinite." I was honored. It wasn't so much that she quoted me from the pulpit as that something I had said had struck a chord with a young woman whom I love and admire. She described how after she heard me say that, she started noticing ways in which we in the Church sometimes imply that where we are isn't good enough to get where we are going. It is such a relief to realize that the Atonement of Jesus Christ bridges the entire gap, and what matters most is that we turn toward Him so we can cross the bridge. The bridge is always there. It reaches all the way to us, all the time. We just have to face the right direction. (This is me again now. She didn't talk about a bridge.)

Our Primary president was out of town today so she asked me to be on hand to help her secretary, who was conducting the meeting while the counselors were engaged elsewhere. I got to round up someone to help in nursery, since one of the brothers who serves there was sick. (Yes! We have men who serve in nursery as their regular calling!) After that I hung out in the hallway with the Sunbeam son of a senior Primary teacher who needed to go teach her class. He was no trouble at all, he just didn't want to go in to singing time. When my calves started protesting about squatting in front of him, I simply sat down on the floor against the wall. My new young friend eventually did the same. He showed me how he can crab walk, table, do push ups, do a kind of handstand with he feet on the wall, etc. For a while we sat with one foot set heel to toe on top of the other. Then we switched feet. I sang the songs to him. With five minutes left, he decided he was ready to go inside, so we did.

The second person sitting with the Sunbeams disappeared at class time, so I ended up sitting in there until the end of church. Amelia and I then met with the Relief Society president about her new ministering assignment with me. After that, it was time to come home and make bacon and pancakes for a family I had invited over for lunch. When we'd had our fill, we played some games together. It was a nice afternoon.

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