Giving Service

[New Era]

Giving Service

"Stretching our souls in service helps us to rise above our cares, concerns, and challenges. As we focus our energies on lifting the burdens of others, something miraculous happens. Our own burdens diminish. We become happier. There is more substance to our lives."

(David S. Baxter, "Faith, Service, Constancy," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 14)

[Zelph]

I've always found that when I'm the happiest is when I'm serving another person.

[AlaskanLDS]

My neighbor is newly widowed.  We went to our missionary correlation meeting the other night and she was telling me she had a good day.  She has been really down since she came back to the house they lived in and he died in.  She has only been home about a week and a half.  I asked her if she noticed anything different about what had gone on that day.  She said that she fully believed it was because she served someone for the first time since he had died.  She made some vests for her son-in-law for a formal dinner.  She said she was going to try and do some service each day and see if she could get out of the depressed feeling she was in.  She obviously has a good reason to be sad, but still noticed the importance in serving others.  I was really touched by her example.