An Evening with Angels

The Relief Society Christmas Dinner is a big deal in the Hazeldale Ward.  The cultural room was beautiful with strung twinkle lights across the ceiling, fabric draped over lights around the walls, and real garlands throughout the room, across a piano, on every table with lights along with metallic wreaths and angels, pictures of Christ throughout the room, and garlands across the stange and along the walls with ornaments hanging from them.  The evening was amazing as well.  There was delicious food, amazing musical numbers, and an opportunity to focus on how each one of us can be an angel in someones life, and that from the talks of four women, we are angels and don't even know it.  It was a really neat evening, below is an excerpt from Elder Holland's talk that was shared, The Ministry of Angels-General Conference October 2008.

 

My beloved brothers and sisters, I testify of angels, both the heavenly and the mortal kind. In doing so I am testifying that God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face. “[N]or will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man [or woman or child] upon the face thereof to be saved.” On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal.

May we all believe more readily in, and have more gratitude for, the Lord’s promise as contained in one of President Monson’s favorite scriptures: “I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, … my Spirit shall be in your [heart], and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.” In the process of praying for those angels to attend us, may we all try to be a little more angelic ourselves—with a kind word, a strong arm, a declaration of faith and “the covenant wherewith [we] have covenanted.” Perhaps then we can be emissaries sent from God when someone, perhaps a Primary child, is crying, “Darkness … afraid … river … alone.” To this end I pray in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.