Dear Reader,
Today I want to write about a unique experience I had last week in our LDS Ward in Provo. We attend a family ward, which means that there are families and members of all ages. In a normal family ward, the number of young men (between 12 and 18 years of age) would be enough to help pass the sacrament and make sure that every one in the congregation has the opportunity to participate. In our ward, however, there are just a couple of young men in that age range, creating an opportunity for the older priesthood holders in our ward to participate in administering the sacrament.
This past week I was asked to be one of those priesthood holders to administer the sacrament to the congregation. The sacrament consists of eating the bread and drinking the water that has been blessed for those who take it. It is a symbol, just as the bread and wine Christ gave his disciples in the Bible. It allows those who have made covenants with Christ through Baptism to renew those covenants they have made.
While we were passing the trays of bread and water around to the different pews in the church house, we distributed the bread, almost running out of bread in the process. Luckily we had enough to go around. When the time to pass the water trays around, we passed them around and we almost ran out again, which forced us to trade trays between us so we could cover our respective areas of the pews we were passing the trays to.
I ended up with the only tray with water on it by the end.
As the priesthood holders passing the Sacrament gathered around the table where the trays were kept, we lined up in two lines, one behind the other. The front line normally turns around and holds the trays while the back line will take the bread/water from the tray in order to participate in the ordinance. They then take the tray and allow the front line to do the same. However, as I was the only one to have any water left, we simply all gathered around the last tray and took the little cups in a circle.
It made me think about the apostles in the chapter in the Bible (Matthew 26) when Christ established the sacrament. The manner in which the apostles took the sacrament was probably very similar to the manner we took the sacrament that day last week: gathered together in a small space and probably a little hesitant about what to do. I imagine that the apostles did not understand the full significance of what Christ was doing, but took the bread and wine because they knew it was good and the right thing to do.
I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know he loves us and that we can live with him and God again through keeping our covenants we have made with them.
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Today I want to write about a unique experience I had last week in our LDS Ward in Provo. We attend a family ward, which means that there are families and members of all ages. In a normal family ward, the number of young men (between 12 and 18 years of age) would be enough to help pass the sacrament and make sure that every one in the congregation has the opportunity to participate. In our ward, however, there are just a couple of young men in that age range, creating an opportunity for the older priesthood holders in our ward to participate in administering the sacrament.
This past week I was asked to be one of those priesthood holders to administer the sacrament to the congregation. The sacrament consists of eating the bread and drinking the water that has been blessed for those who take it. It is a symbol, just as the bread and wine Christ gave his disciples in the Bible. It allows those who have made covenants with Christ through Baptism to renew those covenants they have made.
While we were passing the trays of bread and water around to the different pews in the church house, we distributed the bread, almost running out of bread in the process. Luckily we had enough to go around. When the time to pass the water trays around, we passed them around and we almost ran out again, which forced us to trade trays between us so we could cover our respective areas of the pews we were passing the trays to.
I ended up with the only tray with water on it by the end.
As the priesthood holders passing the Sacrament gathered around the table where the trays were kept, we lined up in two lines, one behind the other. The front line normally turns around and holds the trays while the back line will take the bread/water from the tray in order to participate in the ordinance. They then take the tray and allow the front line to do the same. However, as I was the only one to have any water left, we simply all gathered around the last tray and took the little cups in a circle.
It made me think about the apostles in the chapter in the Bible (Matthew 26) when Christ established the sacrament. The manner in which the apostles took the sacrament was probably very similar to the manner we took the sacrament that day last week: gathered together in a small space and probably a little hesitant about what to do. I imagine that the apostles did not understand the full significance of what Christ was doing, but took the bread and wine because they knew it was good and the right thing to do.
I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know he loves us and that we can live with him and God again through keeping our covenants we have made with them.
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