“Like Father Like Son”
In the beginning it seemed so simple
Serve a mission, marry in the temple
We were so happy, so full of joy
You and I, and our little boy
To provide our needs I worked more days
Slowly, surely, I changed my ways
My job, my bills, my child, my wife
Became the order of my life
No longer did we daily share
No longer did we kneel in prayer
No longer were our scriptures read
We gathered round TV instead
I can’t pinpoint the time or day
My testimony slipped away
So gradual was the change in me
I felt nothing, I couldn’t see
We still attend each week or two
Mainly I go to please just you
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, I’m not that bad
I’m pretty good, just like my dad
As we live on season to season
It seems there is no rhyme, no reason
To live…
Where did it go, the reason, the rhyme
I live by the rules
Most of them anyway
I go to church sometimes
Helped on a service project
Elders Quorum president always wants more
Who made him my president
We used to be friends
Did a lot of things
His family, ours
Don’t see them much anymore
They’re busy with church…
They do seem happy
…I’m starting to remember
The things we did together
His family, ours
We did them at church
They were happier times
Now my eyes are filled with tears
Opening after so many years
The Spirit tells me repent, confess
A burden heavy burns in my chest
The instant I my heart outpoured
All burdens were lifted by my Lord
As His Spirit to me returned
Once again my chest did burn
Quietly whispered, without ceremony
The Spirit delivered my testimony
Knowledge filled my very being
Of Jesus the Christ, the Son, the King
Praise God I do, this and every day
We share, we read, we kneel, we pray
How glorious, how divine, His peace, His joy
As we grow in love, as we raise our boy
The Lord has given us reason and rhyme
I’m grateful He opened my blind eyes in time
For when I said, “I know this Church is true”
Our son said, “Daddy, I want to be just like you!”
John J. LaPierre
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Home Teaching
Home Teaching is important
In God’s eternal scheme,
Because it helps Him to fulfill
His great eternal dream.
His dream is life eternal
For all His children dear,
And we’ve been called to help Him,
Through love, unfeigned, sincere,
By doing our Home Teaching,
And Visiting Teaching, too,
While sharing love unmeasured as
We strive His will to do.
Oh may our teaching visits
Reflect a heart that’s true,
And hands forever willing,
God’s noble work to do
So that when life is over,
Our joy will be complete,
As we see families that we’ve taught,
In heaven’s glad retreat.
Heart Thoughts by Jim
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Rich in Wealth
Think if you had to be rich in wealth to
enter the Kingdom of the Lord, and your
only source of income was from loyal
service to others of your own accord.
How much wealth would you think you
now have on board, would be enough
to get you through the Heavenly door.
Here is the idea plainly shared by the Lord,
Gain wealth by visiting families within your ward.
Robert D Talbot
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Honor Thee & Teach
For all the Brethren that honor
their priesthood and always heed
the call, need no reminder to do
monthly home teaching, for they
are always first and proud to say,
you will find I have visited them all.
Robert D Talbot
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Home Teaching
Home teaching is not a job you see,
it is a blessing of service from the
Lord in Heaven directly to me.
For when I do my home teaching it
seems plain to me, that I’m following
in the footsteps of the Lord I can see.
Doing this service is not just for my
families I take heed, service is required
I know like the Lord I must try to be.
This short time on earth that I have I
Agree, must spent in service to others
To be exalted with the Lord for Eternity.
Robert D Talbot
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Honor Your Call
When you do home teaching you
honor your call, but remember that
just a message should not be all.
You should know them, love them
and care for them all, just as the
Lord would to magnify your call.
Serving diligently with your heart and
giving it your all, our Savior tells us
upon his return that we shall not fall.
Robert D Talbot
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When I Serve
When I serve the Lord, for me I have found,
it makes me feel several feet off the ground.
The more and more I serve, the clearer I see,
how much higher and closer to the Lord I may be.
Robert D Talbot
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A BLESSING TO SERVE
Serving others is not so hard to do,
all it takes is a little Love from you.
As we serve, the blessings will flow,
however small the Lord will know.
If it seems there’s no time to spend,
then consider this some time to lend.
When we are serving mankind so dear,
the Lord our God we shall have near.
So blessed are we if we give it our all,
because we know we honored our call.
It is required of us that we must serve,
to gain the blessings that Jesus referred.
Our leaders will serve and pave the way,
That we may serve others another day.
When all our time here is spent and done,
how sweet the reward for serving just one.
Robert D Talbot
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He was going to be all that a mortal should be Tomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he Tomorrow.
A friend who was troubled and weary he knew,
Who’d be glad of a lift and who needed it, too;
On him he would call and see what he could do Tomorrow.
Each morning he stacked up the letters he’d write Tomorrow.
And thought of folks he would fill with delight Tomorrow.
It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn’t a minute to stop on his way;
Any more time he would have to give others, he’d say, Tomorrow.
The greatest of workers this man would have been Tomorrow.
The world would have known him, had he ever seen Tomorrow.
But the fact is he died and he faded from view
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do Tomorrow.
Edgar Guest
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In an interview with the Elder’s Quorum President, one home teacher boasted that he saw all his families 10 months out of the year. When the Elder’s Quorum President asked him why he could not see his families all 12 months of the year the home teacher replied, “None of my families like me to visit on New Year’s Eve or Halloween.”
Submitted by Kevin Young
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