We fed the missionaries on Friday though the air quality was not that great. They did not seem to mind as we built and ate Hawaiian haystacks out on our porch and visited for a bit. I’d given them containers to take home some food which they said they would give me on Sunday. Sadly that was my main objective for going as I knew we haven’t returned to normal and I thought it would be depressing. Only the speaker was allowed to remove his mask. We were told we could sing but had to leave our masks on. I chose not to sing as the smoke has been enticing me to cough.
Several announcements were made before the bishop talked about how many of us
are opinionated and often our opinions will put us into a box. There are a wide
variety of boxes that exist – in our jobs, in our community, the way we serve (he
didn’t say politics – but that is one I had thought of) . . . some people, such
as the Pharisees, will add layers of thickness to their boxes. We need to look
to reliable sources – such as the scriptures to understand the truth – to rely
on truth rather than opinions and to leave our boxes. We should not trust sources such as social
media (he had addressed this as a question rather than providing a statement
that we can’t trust social media or even the local news. An example he used
were that some sources the fires were started by a certain group and others say
that rumor is false). The best source we have is to rely on our Heavenly Father
rather than ourselves.
