I Want To Set My Ward On Fire!!!!

[Tough Grits]

We were told recently that our entire stake was spiritually sick.

That is pretty awful. I came from middle GA where the ward was awesome. No, things did NOT always run smoothly, and NO, the members were not perfect...but nearly every Sunday was a spiritual experience. I looked forward to going to Church every Sunday. It was just the best day of the week.

This past Sunday was the first time in three years of being in this backwoods ward that I have felt anything close to the spiritual high of my former ward.

Talk about a dry spell. How sad that I have to wait every three years to have a great, motivating, uplifting, and spiritual Sabbath.

Oh well.

As far as cleaning...our ward no longer participates in the Member Involvement as it is known is other wards.

Each auxiliary and its members (Relief Society, Elder's Quorum, etc.) is responsible for a certain area or room of the ward building to clean or inspect before leaving each Sunday.

The Relief Society sisters were told a few Sunday's ago that we were all responsible for checking the two women's bathrooms and cleaning them before leaving the building on the Sabbath.

Trust me, there is always somebody or some place that has it MUCH worse than you.

[utcowboy]

The Relief Society sisters were told a few Sunday's ago that we were all responsible for checking the two women's bathrooms and cleaning them before leaving the building on the Sabbath.

Trust me, there is always somebody or some place that has it MUCH worse than you.

I really need that LOL button....

[Dove]

I relate to what you're saying. In my singles ward, my visiting teacher actually lied about visiting me~I found this out when I went in and requested a new VT because I hadn't been visited in over a year.

One thing I would say is, there is only so much that you can do by yourself in contributing to the ward. Anything more than that really isn't your problem or concern. Just do what you can do in fulfilling your part, and leave the rest to God, and those seemingly slovenly, mediocre, worthy of being spit out of His mouth people. Oops! A little of my own unresolved issues with other people of the church coming out.

My biggest struggles in remaining active has been in dealing with other people of the church. I have thought about it quite a bit, because it seems I have been put in difficult situations with other members of the church for a reason over my life. I have decided that He is trying to teach me to come unto Him and to rely on Him, rather than on "the arm of flesh." I am working on forgiving those who fall short, even wayyy short of my expectations of how a Christian should be, while still protecting myself and keeping a clear head in witnessing those actions that fall short of this. Letting Go and Letting God take care of His church while focusing on myself and what I need to do is a lesson in humility for me. Kind of like the parable of the mote and the beam.

I don't know if your answer lies in leaving the ward, you might just be changing the scenery/problems for another set of problems in a new ward. Maybe there is something there for you to learn. But, then again, if it's too much, it's too much, and that's okay too.

Edited July 25, 2008 by Dove