Magnify Your Calling

Hi Ladies!
   Lately, I've been thinking about callings.  I wanted to share a little bit with you on that topic today.

   First of all, what are our callings in life?

   There are several different callings that we may be asked to accept.  We may have accepted them in the premortal realm.  It may be a calling that God asked you to fulfill before you were born.  And you accepted, telling him you would do anything he required of you.
    It may be a church calling.  You could be serving as a member of a presidency, a family history specialist, or in some other capacity.
    Or it may be a call to be a mother, a sister, a friend, a missionary, a wife, a daughter, or so forth.

  There are more callings in this life than just those that the bishop extends to you.  But no matter what your calling may be, magnify your calling. 
  
   What does it mean to magnify your calling?  How do we magnify our calling?

   In the next few weeks, I will be describing some ways we can magnify our own personal callings. I also encourage you to pray sincerely about your callings in life and to study it out.

President Monson said:
 

I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same spoken of by the Lord and found in the Pearl of Great Price: “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”¹

May we ever remember that the mantle of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a cloak of comfort but rather a robe of responsibility. Our duty, in addition to saving ourselves, is to guide others to the celestial kingdom of God.

   I hope each of us can learn better about magnifying our callings and letting our "flame'' glow and grow. 

-J