Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Jennifer Brinkerhoff Platt, Mosiah, Chapter 1 through 3.

Jen, you said something earlier about part of serving others is taking care of ourselves. This was Elder Ballard years ago. He said

water cannot be drawn from an empty well and if you're not setting aside time for

what replenishes you you will have less and less to give to others, even to your children.

When we take care of ourselves, we are still serving others because we are creating energy that we can give then in

more service so it doesn't do anyone any good to wear my life out and not take care of myself because I'm not going to be able to

serve if I wear the machine out.

We run past that verse pretty fast because we're all used to it. People for millennia have tried to

figure out how to best serve God and King Benjamin just in one phrase answers it.

Because one school of thought is, man, let's get away from all this wicked world. Let's go build a big

fortress in the mountain somewhere, take our sacred books with us, and just get away from all this wickedness. Yeah, but we can't serve our brothers

sisters if we're not among them. It's kind of like what did Jesus say I

pray not to take them out of the world but to keep them from evil. So got to be a light to the world

and be salt of the earth but not remove ourselves from them. It's just a one little

sentence goes by so fast. You want to know how to serve God, serve each other.

Yep, and that takes a lot of work. I spend a lot of time listening to Relief Society

Presidents asking me, how are we going to get people to minister to each other?

It seems to be the question.

And it's a matter of learning to care about people, paying attention to them, listening to them, hearing what matters to them, and being responsive, and showing up.

Just in this week, I've had two friends randomly call and say Jen I'm calling to ask how I can lighten your load.

They didn't know I had a whole lot going on. They weren't aware of my circumstances and the overwhelmed that I was in.

But to get that phone call, the first was last Saturday, the phone call was,

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