Magnify Your Calling
Many of my quotes and ideas were taken from two talks: Magnify your calling by Gordon B. Hinckley and "Your calling: Joy or Drudgery?" by Larry Hiller. They are both wonderful, and if you ever get the chance I would highly suggest reading them.
What does it mean to magnify your calling and why should we do it??
"That word magnify is interesting. As I interpret it, it means to enlarge, to make more clear, to bring closer, and to strengthen." To enlarge: to make something bigger than it was. To make more clear: to define it To bring closer: to bring your calling closer to the ward (or to your heart) To strengthen: to make stronger
Rather than define all of these further, I have an example of someone who I believed really magnified their calling. In my ward over spring, we had committees, and our activities committee had just been cut (as all had) to allow other auxiliaries to take it's place. Well there was a girl named Sarah who was co-chair of friendship committee and decided that it was really important to have regular ward activities. Friendship committee in the past had been mostly only in charge of "Nice Notes" at ward prayer, and had not done much else. Sarah decided that activities would be a great way to strengthen friendships within our ward, and boy did she go for it. We had barBQs and ice blocking, and movie nights all spring semester long. She enlarged her calling and made it something bigger than it had been before, she made it more clear and clearly defined new ways to be a friendship cochair, brought it closer to both her and the members of the ward, and strengthened the calling and meaning of being on the friendship committee.
Why should we do this? Why should we magnify our calling?
“And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility, answering the sins of the people upon our own heads if we did not teach them the word of God with all diligence.”
If you are the kind of person that needs
What does it mean to magnify your calling and why should we do it??
"That word magnify is interesting. As I interpret it, it means to enlarge, to make more clear, to bring closer, and to strengthen." To enlarge: to make something bigger than it was. To make more clear: to define it To bring closer: to bring your calling closer to the ward (or to your heart) To strengthen: to make stronger
Rather than define all of these further, I have an example of someone who I believed really magnified their calling. In my ward over spring, we had committees, and our activities committee had just been cut (as all had) to allow other auxiliaries to take it's place. Well there was a girl named Sarah who was co-chair of friendship committee and decided that it was really important to have regular ward activities. Friendship committee in the past had been mostly only in charge of "Nice Notes" at ward prayer, and had not done much else. Sarah decided that activities would be a great way to strengthen friendships within our ward, and boy did she go for it. We had barBQs and ice blocking, and movie nights all spring semester long. She enlarged her calling and made it something bigger than it had been before, she made it more clear and clearly defined new ways to be a friendship cochair, brought it closer to both her and the members of the ward, and strengthened the calling and meaning of being on the friendship committee.
Why should we do this? Why should we magnify our calling?
“And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility, answering the sins of the people upon our own heads if we did not teach them the word of God with all diligence.”
If you are the kind of person that needs