Yesterday we had a surprise visit from Elder Petersen, our local area authority. Elder Petersen was my stake president growing up and a very important figure in my spiritual growth. He gave me numerous blessings and taught me much about the gospel. I was excited to hear from him, and between the tantrum thrown by my two-year old and the slobber from my baby, I learned this important lesson:
He said (quoting what Elder Bednar had told him), "the Lord works one by one. We aren't expected to teach everyone all at once. We teach them one by one."
I have thought about that for a whole day now, and decided that works for so many parts of our lives, especially family history! We aren't expected to find all of our ancestors right now. We find them, learn about them, and take their names to the temple one by one. That's how the Lord works with us.
It makes me think of the beautiful song by Hillary Weeks,
I stand amazed that Heaven knows me
He hears one by one, loves one by one.
When this crowded world around you
doesn't know your name.
He knows us, one by one.
When he saw the hungry thousand
Every person ate.
Comforted the aching soul
And looked into each face.
And when he had a world to save
He had a world of time,
To stop and hold a little child.
He hears one by one, loves one by one.
( From www.lds.org/youth/music, search One by One)
I know that the Lord knows us one by one! He does not expect us to do everything. He wants us to find our ancestors one by one, just as he loves us one by one.
xo, Kayleigh
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