Sacrament Meeting Program

Presiding: Brother Alan Riker
Conducting: Brother Alan Riker
Opening Hymn: #1203 - What Child Is This?
Invocation: By Invitation

Ward Business

Sacrament Hymn: #1048 - Our Prayer to Thee
Administration of the Sacrament

Speaker: Brother Chase Christensen
Musical Number
Speaker: Brother Jay Noorlander

Closing Hymn: #134 - I Believe In Christ
Benediction: By Invitation

Do Your Part with All Your Heart

By Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

“But Elder Uchtdorf,” you might say, “I don’t have any gifts or talents—at least, none that are that valuable.” Perhaps you look at others whose gifts are obvious and impressive and you feel pretty ordinary by comparison. You might suppose that in the premortal existence, on the day of the great gift and talent smorgasbord, your plate seemed woefully sparse—especially compared to the stacked and overflowing plates of others.

Oh, how I wish I could embrace you and help you understand this great truth: You are a blessed being of light, the spirit child of an infinite God! And you bear within you a potential beyond your own capacity to imagine.

As poets have noted, you come to earth “trailing clouds of glory”!

Your origin story is divine, and so is your destiny. You left heaven to come here, but heaven has never left you!

You are anything but ordinary.

You are gifted!

In the Doctrine and Covenants, God declared:

“There are many gifts, and to every [person] is given a gift by the Spirit of God.

“To some is given one, and to some is given another, [and] all may be profited thereby.”

Some of our gifts are listed in the scriptures. Many are not.

As the prophet Moroni said, “Deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the same God.” They might manifest themselves in “different ways … ; but it is the same God who worketh all in all.”

It may be true that our spiritual gifts are not always flashy, but that does not mean they are less important. May I share with you some spiritual gifts that I have noticed in so many members across the world? Contemplate whether you have been blessed with one or more gifts like:

• Showing compassion.
• Noticing people who are overlooked.
• Finding reasons to be joyful.
• Being a peacemaker.
• Noticing small miracles.
• Giving sincere compliments.
• Forgiving.
• Repenting.
• Enduring.
• Explaining things simply.
• Connecting with children.
• Sustaining Church leaders.
• Helping others know that they belong.

You might not see these gifts displayed at the ward talent show. But I hope you can see how precious they are to the Lord’s work and how you might have touched, blessed, or even saved one of God’s children by your gifts. Remember: “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.”

So let us each do our little part.

Do Your Part with All Your Heart

Elder Uchtdorf teaches that we should work to develop the gifts God has given us so they can bless us and others.

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf