I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.
The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
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