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| Our Elder Wines and Elder Mears, and Daniel, just before Sacrament Meeting. |
Today was “Come and See Sunday”—a day to invite curious friends to see what goes on in Sunday meetings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this post, we invite you to “Come and See” the meetings we attended in our chapel at Potomac, Maryland today.
Elder Holm and I are assigned to attend a ward (a congregation defined by a geographic boundary) of single people between the ages of 20-30. They are fantastic—full of life. When we arrived, they were visiting, excited to see each other.
July 24 is a special day in our church—it commemorates the anniversary of our early pioneers’ arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. So when Sacrament Meeting began, we sang “Come, Come Ye Saints,” a worship song that brought hope to the pioneers. The opening prayer was given by Machalia Williams, our friend who was baptized into the church in May.
We sang another worship song centered on Jesus Christ, then young men holding the priesthood blessed and passed the Sacrament to the congregation. In this ordinance, we eat a small piece of bread and drink a small cup of water as we think about Jesus and His sacrifice and atonement given for us and commit to follow Him in the coming week.
The first speaker was Maren Rust, a young lady from Boise, who has been doing a horticulture internship here. She spoke about the faith of the pioneers and related it to our need for faith in Jesus Christ. Megan suggested that to build our faith, we should talk to God as if He were with us, in a conversational way. She told how her mother prayed years ago, when Maren was a difficult toddler (by her own account.) Her mother received the answer that if she would proceed with faith, God would show her in small, day to day increments, how to raise this difficult child. Maren is now a delightful adult.
The second speaker was Connor Clifford from North Pole, Alaska, who is also interning here. He told of a man he knew on his mission in Ghana. Isaac had been a gold miner who skirted the law to get ahead, until he got caught. Miracles began to happen—he met a good woman who was a member of our church and they were married. He found work, was baptized and is now the wonderful father of two daughters—named Miracle and Blessing. He is a Christian pioneer in his country.
After a closing song and prayer, the women went to Relief Society and the men went to priesthood meeting. A young woman named Leah taught Relief Society. Leah shared stories of how Jesus Christ can heal us physically, spiritually, and mentally—if that is what is needed for our path in life, finishing with powerful reminders of His love found in Isaiah 53.3-5. After Church, we socialized at a "Munch and Mingle" dinner.
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The Strathmore Single Adult Ward Relief Society sister are wonderful! |
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| Relief Society. . . these ladies are Sister Bodily and Sister Hart of our WDCN Mission. |
As we end this day, I love to re-read this scripture found in John 1:37-39:
“And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.”
Thanks for letting me share a little about what we do on Sunday!
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| Munch and Mingle, feed the body as well as the soul -- a great tradition! |
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