Keeping the Right Perspective

Tuesday nights are my rejuvenation night! My good friend and I attend the Temple together and it's an opportunity for me to adjust my attitude and keep myself focused throughout the week. Each experience in the Temple is unique. There is always something different that I glean from each session. This particular visit, the spiritual boost didn't come from the session or from the celestial room or from anything I would have thought would be the source. Instead, it came from my conversations with my friend. His humility and testimony were truly moving. I can't recall any specific topic or any particular event that he related, I only remember the power of the Spirit as he spoke.

I am so honored to have such people as influences in my life. We are sent here to progress and learn. We are here to strive towards perfection and exaltation that we might one day have the privilege of dwelling in the presence of the Father. Along our path, we encounter others that have been placed in our lives at the right time and place that we might mutually benefit and grow. Through these interactions, we come to understand the worth of souls and the importance of helping one another to obtain that highest of aspirations. Our Father in Heaven wants us to be mutually supportive of one another. He wants us to strive to bring those closest to us to the knowledge and understanding of the Plan of Salvation that we might all partake. He doesn't want to lose one soul and neither should we.

In General Conference, October of 1998, Elder Henry B. Eyring spoke of this very thing when he related a dream that he had where a friend that he had known for many years, met him on the other side of the veil with the admonition: "You KNEW! Why didn't you tell me?" We have the opportunity to share with those around us, through testimony, words, actions, example, what we know and why. "If it so be that ye should labor all of your days crying repentance unto this people, and bring but one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of the Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!" [D&C 18:14-16]. Going to the Temple helps me to keep this objective in view. I feel that I am better prepared when the Spirit moves me to speak. If I can be instrumental in bringing one person to their personal exaltation, then my life has been well spent.