The Lord's Work

Have you ever had something happen where you realize this thing you've been doing has literally changed your life?   I realized that this morning.  This thing I've been doing for the last two years has changed my life.  Two years ago this month I started volunteering at the San Diego Bishops' Store House.  I was originally invited to go because I needed help with an assignment at church.  The sister I was getting help from asked me to join her while she volunteered and then we would discuss what I could do for this assignment.  One week went by and then the next and the next and each week I was there became more and more familiar.  Pretty soon I was bonding with the other missionaries there and pretty soon I was bonding with patrons who came in for food orders.  Often times I would leave feeling so overwhelmed with the Spirit of the Lord that it would lift my whole day.  Now when I have to miss a week I feel a "disturbance in the force".  This service, this volunteering has changed my life!  I called it my rut remover at first because it seriously got me out of my "rut", my pity party.  Now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.  

Well this morning the catalyst that started me thinking about all this was when Sis. Quiggle (The director's wife) asked the group, there are currently 5 women now who try to volunteer each week with us, if we wanted to move our status to Long Term volunteers.  This is just a different status with different paper work, it means nothing different than what we have always done, except there are different legalities.  It meant something to me however in the sense that it's about how much my life has been blessed by being there.  I can't even begin to express my blessings because they are so numerous.  More than anything else is the feeling of my Savior's love.  Love for me but so much more for His children. The Bishops' Storehouse has become my nirvana!  It's like an addicting drug that I've become obsessed with having.  It's the camaraderie with the sisters I travel with, it's the camaraderie of the brothers and sisters I serve with, and it's the camaraderie with the good people I serve.  The ultimate part of this that makes it what it is, is simply that it's the Lord's work and that's what gives me that nirvana feeling! 

I was a little shocked to learn that it had been two years.  It's been two very wonderful years and I'm so blessed to be a part of this great work.