It is truly amazing the effect that small and simple things can have upon our lives. There is a wonderful scripture in the Book of Mormon about this in the Book of Alma which says:
"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise."
For example, we were teaching a lesson to one of our investigators about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a lesson that all of us missionaries know how to teach because we study about it so often in our morning studies. Usually in the morning, as well, we have time to plan out our lessons of the day and to prepare the lesson we are going to teach, but because of other meetings that day, we were unable to really plan our lesson for our investigator that afternoon. This small thing, a thing that would have only taken about ten to fifteen minute out of our day, would have made our incredibly choppy lesson into a lesson that flowed and focused on what she needed to hear from us.
What I have learned from this experience yesterday is how The Lord wants us to be continually doing the seemingly small things in life. If we will do our part, He can then work great miracles through us.
-Elder Wesley Cannon
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