I am giving a lesson in church, soon, about achieviing friendships, sociality and especially sisterhood through service.
My request is that I'd love to have some original stories about ways that you have gained relationships through service. It can be from someone serving you, you serving them, or from serving together and bonding that way.
If you have any personal (or family or whatever.. :) ) stories, would you PLEASE send them my way! It would help me a lot!!
Thanks!!!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Here is a story from my life. At church I was assigned a letter route for visiting teaching because I was traveling so much with my husband but was asked to try and visit them as well. One particular sister on my list I learned had just recently had multiple blood clots in her legs and was unable to walk and didn't even know if she would ever be able to walk. So due to these clots she was unable to work and she was stuck at home propping her feet up. I called her and asked if I could come visit. She politely declined and then I asked well can I at least bring some meals by that you can freeze so that you have them on hand. She agreed...little did I know that food was the way to her heart. So for several months I went and dropped off food and we became friends. After a period of time she became active in church again and when I had my son she threw me a baby shower and way over did it on baby gifts. She has become a dear friend. Hope this story helps.
hi tirzah:
thanks for making me think of this. one of my dearest friends here in my ward, ~R, we first met and started talking meaningful while we were on a service project with the YW (weeding the flower beds etc at the alaska temple). that was a little over two years ago, when i first chose this church. to this day, ~R is one of two dear friends here who mean the most to me.
and i might not have connected with ~R in such a way had we not been doing the service project together, because she is a little shy at first with most people. i am so glad she gave me a chance to be her friend for she has blessed my life here so much. and she is the best hugger, too. i feel like i am part of her family. i love this dear friend to pieces. so grateful to have friends like this. hope this helps dear, kathleen :)
I was so lonely my first year living far from family. I was assigned a visiting teaching companion and I was bemoaning not having family support. She said she was feeling the same way being pregnant with her fourth and leaving her family. We decided then and there that we would be sisters to each other, that we would never get offended by the other, that we would babysit for each other, that we would let each other in even if our homes were totally trashed. It was so wonderful to finally feel like I had family. We made the term "sister" real and I will always be grateful to my friend for doing that for me.
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