Welcome to This is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lay.

When President Russell M. Nelson announced the new ministering program in general conference,

he called it a newer, holier approach to caring for and ministering to others.

If your word of branch is anything like mine, then that means you've had lessons and discussions

galore about what this whole ministering thing looks like.

We can define the word, and we've probably figured out how to do ministering interviews,

but how do we as a church actually do it?

How do we give and receive this kind of love and care?

Our episode today features three stories of people who spiritual lives have been blessed

by the power of ministering.

Our first story comes from Brett, who shares his experience of moving to a totally new country

as a young man.

What I love about his story is that it illustrates how the act of ministering to others can sometimes

be the key to opening us up to the care and love that we need for ourselves.

My dad got a calling in the church that sent him overseas, so we had to go to Eastern Europe.

And I'm young, I'm six, but everybody was out of the house by the time that calling

came and so I went over there alone.

And my mom encouraged me to enroll in a local high school there.

There was a small branch there, not many youth in the entire area, just a couple of my

age in the country.

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