May Visiting Teaching- LDS

Putting together the May visiting teaching handout is really nice because the message for the month is any of the talks from General Conference.  It gives me a great opportunity to review some of the talks and perhaps find some hidden gems I missed the first time around when I was just listening to the talks.  That's how I found this beautiful quote by Elder Neil L. Anderson.   Love.  I get little warm fuzzies every time I read it.  I want to hang it up on my mirror and read it every morning.

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It is from his talk What Thinks Christ of Me?  And I really liked the following quote as well,

but I ran out of room on the handout. :)

 "Jesus’s call “Come, follow me” is not only for those prepared to compete in a spiritual Olympics. In fact, discipleship is not a competition at all, but an invitation to all. Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

His invitation is a call to daily duty. Jesus said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." We may not be at our very best every day, but if we are trying, Jesus’s bidding is full of encouragement and hope: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”