How I live my faith

I have been blessed with so many opportunities to serve in this church throughout my life. Each service opportunity provides me the ability to enrich the talents that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with. I truely believe that "Service" is the only feel good drug a body needs. When a person serves another the natural response is good feelings.
Many years ago when my family lived in a different State, the Bishops wife began to sink into depression. Several really hard things happened in their family and she was suffering the effects. She continued to have faith and prayed to the Lord for help and strength. One day, she decided to go visit the sisters in the Convelesent center that was located in our ward boundaries. She did and a marvelous thing happened. As she reached out and talked to, brushed the hair and just visited with these sweet and lonely sisters, her sadness and depression lifted. Her purpose was to go and give alittle kindness to these women and be a bright spot in their lonely day, but little did she know, that being there and serving, would lift her own spirits.
This sweet sister bore her testimony the following Sunday, that service can lift burdens, and truely make you happy. From that moment on, our ward began to serve more at the Convelesent center, and I can testify for my ownself and my family ,that we loved the opportunity we had to go there as well. My children developed compassion and tenderness in their hearts for the elderly. Service is a feel good drug, and the only one we ever need to take.