Another Reason We Love Being Mormon...

Home teachers! According to mormonnewsroom.org, "home teachers are two men who are assigned to watch over and help a person or family in the congregation. These two priesthood holders visit their assigned individuals and families each month to help and support them in their efforts to live the principles taught by Jesus Christ. Included in this regular visit is a message of spiritual instruction that is adapted to meet the needs and concerns of the individuals or families. Home teachers also make sure the temporal needs of the members are taken care of."  That pretty much sums it up.

We had a temporal need and our home teachers and members of the elders quorum (the men's priesthood group whose purpose is to unify and uplift the men in the church) came through for us.  Our fence has been in bad shape for a while but we did not think it would make it through the season with a few rotted out posts.  The men showed up Saturday morning, early, after their own Halloween family festivities the night before, and helped my husband remove old posts and set new ones out of the kindness of their hearts.  Neal had limited experience with fence repair and the team of them got the two posts we had the most concern about set in about 30 minutes!

Thank you for taking time out to help our family and showing your love for us.  And thanks to the wives who may have had to parent their sugared up kids solo while their husbands helped.  You certainly helped lift some burdens.