Teaching

So I've been teaching R.S. for the past few months. Just once a month, mostly, although this month I taught twice...TWICE!! I love it. I do.

Anywho, so I was teaching this lesson on healing the sick from a talk Elder Oaks gave. And at first when I went to read the lesson, I thought "Ugh. I don't love this topic." I don't know why, really, but perhaps I thought it was exciting enough or glamorous or what have you. Maybe I really just thought it was boring, but I don't want to admit that because, well, it sounds horrible of me to think such things.

In any case, I was wrong. What's new?

Actually, as it turns out, the lesson answered some questions I've had about blessings. Because sometimes blessings of healing don't happen the way the words of the blessing say they will. As it turns out, the words of the blessing aren't key. Faith and God's will come first. Hmmm...so then why would the words say something contrary to God's will? Because we are human and we want what we want. I don't know why it was so comforting to me, but it was. For the first time, I felt like I got an honest answer to why certain miracles didn't happen. I can live with that.

So really, I guess when I go to prepare my next lesson, I won't have any preconceived notions about what it should or should not be about. Because usually, anyway, the lessons are for me more than anyone else anyway.