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Show Melchizedek Reaching I impact of the new Melchizedek anti taronic Priesthood MIA programs was felt with force as President llaroli B. Lee declared them to be divinely inspired. Overflow crowds, which attended the four-daconference, eager to learn of the new program, were fed by the spirit and by the word. They left the conference with packets, kits and notebooks filled Elder Marion with infm mation and ideas. They rubbed shoulders with fellow workers from D. across the country and around the world. speaks as EA newness of activity and opportunity lders James E. was evident in the area of the Melchize-dePriesthood Mutual Interest AssociaFaust and L. which emphasized the theme tion, Tom Perry Reaching the One. Single members of await turns. the chutch 18 years and older arc served under the programs of the Melchizedek Priesthood. All singl adult members of the ward, 18 through 25 years of age, arc included in the Young Adult program. Single adults, age 2(1 and older are in the Special Interest program. Elder Boyd K. Packer, of the Melehiz-edePriesthood Committee of the Twelve, gave an overview of the Priesthood MIA when he spoke June 22, during the second genFriday, Valley-wid- e Adult Young eral session held in the ssembly Hall. chorus sings during His message was first to five Friday people, those who constitute the session held at Assembly Hall. Special Interest organization. lie asked the leaders, who filled the hall, to take tne message to the people in their stakes and wards. To the older sister, whose husband died only a few weeks ago. She is 70 years old, she is lonely and doesnt quite know where she will fit in church activity. She has always fit into the church as a wife, mother and grandmother and now her life has changed," Elder Packer described. y Hanks k k Board member Jay Livingood conducts workshop session on involvement in Melchizedek Priesthood MIA program. yt:'' Ao f v , f: a 4 - K" f a CHURCH i rninmiMt WEEK ENDING JUNE 30, 1973 ts-- o v.'v .v si ' I'"1 '4 'M v WVv "V V ' To her I would say that we wouldnt change your circumstances if we could. Perhaps the timing we would change if we could, but it was you bargained knew when you went to the temple and were married, that one day, one of you would precede the other through the veil. Now, it has come. Face it. You have all of the gospel and years of experience. Dont expect the church to be reorganized to take care of something that was inevitable. So, dear sister, your life is taking the normal, natural, expected, and, if we knew the eternities, the desirable course. Enjoy it, endure it, look forward to that which should be, he said. To the young adult left with children and the agony of an untimely death of a husband or wife. Elder Packer said that the Lord would bless them and that the program of the church will look to their needs. There will come comfort, strength, companionship and activity as never before. So I say, look ahead to your life and have, with that grief that faces you, an inner Joy to know that the gospel is true and that those ties are binding and that your life can have a fullness, he said. To the young divorcee with children and a husband who has been disappointing, Elder Packer issued a warning to be careful." You have been used and abused. All of the criticism that you might say about your husband might well Ik true, at least |
