This week I’m trying a new format, instead of typing out my lesson, which took a really long time… I’m going to point out some highlights for you to nibble on.
Success through reliance on the Lord.
Start by chewing on these: “With the help of the Lord I will do the best I can, and… with His help I have no fear at all but what I can get along” – Heber J. Grant
“Be thou humble; and the Lord they God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.” – D&C 112:10
Also, D&C 30:1-3 and 3 Nephi 13:33.
“I remember as a young man I had $50.00 in my pocket on one occasion which I intended to deposit in the bank. When I went on Thursday morning to fast meeting—the fast meeting used to be held on Thursdays instead of Sundays—and the bishop made an appeal for a donation, I walked up and handed him the $50.00. He took five of it and put it in the drawer and gave the $45.00 back to me and said that was my full share.
I said, “Bishop Woolley, by what right do you rob me of putting the Lord in my debt? Didn’t you preach here today that the Lord rewards fourfold? My mother is a widow, and she needs $200.00.”
He said, “My boy, do you believe that if I take this other $45.00, you will get your $200.00 quicker?”
I said: “Certainly.”
Well, he took it.
While walking from fast meeting to the place where I worked, an idea popped into my head. I sent a telegram to a man asking him how many bonds of a certain kind he would buy at a specified price within forty-eight hours. … He wired back that he wanted as many as I could get. My profit on that transaction was $218.50.
The next day I walked down to the bishop and said: “Bishop, I made $218.50 after paying that $50.00 donation the other day and so I owe $21.85 in tithing. I will have to dig up the difference between $21.85 and $18.50. The Lord did not quite give me the tithing in addition to a four to one increase” (Presidents of the Church [Religion 345 student manual], pp. 176–77).