Our Relief Society Enrichment committee really outdid themselves tonight. We had a wonderfully delicious progressive dinner. After dinner we put together cute little care packages for our missionaries. I felt embraced by the warmth and love that exists between the sisters in our ward. Truly we are sisters. But over the past few days my thoughts have often wandered back to our enrichment last December.
Last year this very same enrichment committee put together an evening of service. We were to bring cookies to share and some to take as we caroled to various people in the ward. This enrichment was very poorly attended and so we just had one car full of woman to go caroling. We went to several homes, but the place that we went that touch my heart the most was a local nursing home. We had not planned to go so we just went to the front desk and ask if we could see two men that we knew. One a man in our ward with MS and the other a life timer from another ward that meets in our building. I knew of both of these men, but neither of them personally. To each of them we came as unexpected and yet welcome visitors. With each of them we chatted for a moment and then sang Christmas Hymns. The emotions ran free and we cried and smiled and sang. The spirit filled those rooms and I felt then as I do now that I was making a memories that would burn in me forever. Both of these men have died, they have return to our Father in Heaven and have been freed from the physical ailments that shackled there mortal bodies.
At this Christmastime as I reflect on that sweet experience I was fortunate to share with a few of my sisters and as I savor the delightfully delicious evening we just share with many more dear sisters my testimony is reconfirmed that "For where two or three are agathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt 18:20 Amen to the tender words of a beloved primary song, "I feel my Savior's love, the love he freely gives me." I feel abundantly blessed to have these special moment in my life and so blessed to share them with my sisters.