The Lord's Side of the Line

A friend introduced me to this website. Blessing. I quickly recognized it as gold, and browsed around. I watched this short clip, and was totally humbled to the dirt.

First of all, this this is Elder David A. Bednar, a true and living apostle in our time. The term 'Elder' means teacher. Before he was called to be an apostle, he was the president of Ricks College, now BYU-Idaho. I went to Ricks when he was there. I went to many weekly devotionals, (big auditorium filled with students to hear a speaker talk of spiritual goodness) and hear him speak to the students. He and his wife would hold family home evenings for a small group of students weekly. There, they would answer any questions we had about the church related matter, and feed us ice cream afterwards.

The two words that describe him best to me are these; master teacher. He has such a powerful way of teaching, and was always very kind to all of us kids, the college students:)

I have to share this clip with you. It's only 5 minutes long. Best little media clip ever. It just rocked me. Maybe it's because I'm a mom of boys, and this young boy in the clip is just so tender to me. Maybe it's because the simple act of reading my scriptures and saying my prayers can become so casual and easily forgotten. Whatever the case, Elder Bednar puts everything into crucial perspective with his teaching analogy here. In the words that he always uses when he teaches, pay attention to the spirit as it will speak to you when you watch this, and let it change you.