More Holiness Give Me

Today's Priesthood lesson was really inspiring and made me realize how lousy I have been, not only as a church member, but also as christian in general. The lesson was based on President Utchdorf's talk last general conference where he talked about standing where we are.

Here is the story he told:

"Some years ago in our meetinghouse in Darmstadt, Germany, a group of brethren was asked to move a grand piano from the chapel to the adjoining cultural hall, where it was needed for a musical event. None were professional movers, and the task of getting that gravity-friendly instrument through the chapel and into the cultural hall seemed nearly impossible. Everybody knew that this task required not only physical strength but also careful coordination. There were plenty of ideas, but not one could keep the piano balanced correctly. They repositioned the brethren by strength, height, and age over and over again—nothing worked.

As they stood around the piano, uncertain of what to do next, a good friend of mine, Brother Hanno Luschin, spoke up. He said, “Brethren, stand close together and lift where you stand.”

It seemed too simple. Nevertheless, each lifted where he stood, and the piano rose from the ground and moved into the cultural hall as if on its own power. That was the answer to the challenge. They merely needed to stand close together and lift where they stood."

How can we stand together? We are all here for the same purpose which to help all come unto Christ and there are many ways to do that, but what the Holy Ghost whispered to me during the lesson was that I needed to be a better home teacher and a better attendee of the ward activities.

Another part of the lesson included the story, still by president Utchdorf, about John Rowe Moyle. You will remember that John, who was a convert from England, walked six hours everyday to go to work on the Salt Lake temple. One day he had to have one of his legs amputated after an accident. His desire to work on the temple led him to construct a wooden leg so that he could make the walking journey that, with two normal legs, took six hours and probably longer with a wooden leg.

He continued to do his daily work on the temple and today his sacrifice can be seen on the outside of the temple with the words holiness to the lord, which brother Moyle carved in stone.

I pondered during the lesson how I could be more like brother Moyle, who had every right to stay home and not walk a painful walk on a wooden leg to do something that someone else could have done. Instead he showed us all how to build the kingdom on Earth. We are all very busy with school, work, social life, family, blah, blah, blah, but nothing is as important as helping build the kingdom of God on earth and bring souls to the fold.