sitting for part two with emily utt doctrine of covenants sections 51 through 57 john just a few weeks ago

we spent time with danny ricks looking at spiritual gifts and that everybody has spiritual gifts we can use them

to build zion and we can even stretch ourselves emily to learn new things because i love to teach

if you're going to give me a calling,

make me the gospel doctrine teacher. I am at home there. But occasionally, the Lord says,

how about you try out this thing that you're not naturally good at? And I do it and I don't do a

great job. So they usually put me back in teaching. But I stretch out.

We need historians. We need finance people. We need teachers. We need mothers and father. We need

everybody. I think, too, that the idea of the bishop's storehouse is not just for cans of deserate beaches. The bishop storehouse

can consist of, we have an auto mechanic in the ward who can help brother and sister with their car.

That's the bishop's storehouse. They just had some sheetrock fall apart or something. Who've we

got? And that's all the bishop's storehouse.

That's part of Zion, too. Consecration is whatever we have that is for the good of the saints, as they talk about in Section 57. Whatever gift we have, as these saints are trying to live the law of consecration in these almost utopian societies early on, it's not about giving up

everything I have, it's about what do I have that will benefit others, consecrating my gift

to the good of the church. It's a way really for us to then to practice holiness. When you are doing

something good for the good of God,

that becomes holy. So as they're consecrating their land, they're consecrating their printing press,

they're consecrating their store. It's not about the money. It's about what do I become

when I give my very best to God. He will then turn it back

and multiply the benefit of that. Emily, don't you think that can affect the way we look at each other?

Because we think, well, that weirdo over there needs to be born like me. If he were more normal

like I was, then that's the odd family in the ward.

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