My job is to help Haia Tashman prepare the lesson for Relief Society on Friday (the Sabbath). Sounds easy, right? Not so much!! All week I've been worrying about it...worry, worry worry.
1. How do I communicate with and teach a young woman who can only speak limited English and can't read any English?
2. She's not been very active and I don't think she knows much about the gospel.
3. She has never taught a lesson before.
Me: "This is too hard . . . I don't think I can do it."
Lynn: "Yes you can."
On Wednesday we went to her home to help her prepare the lesson. I didn't know what would happen, but we started with prayer (a really good idea) and pressed on. As we sat there on the couch together, me with the scriptures and lesson in English on my lap and Haia with her scriptures and lesson in Arabic on her lap, something special happened...the Spirit came. This is important because with the Holy Ghost we were able to understand and learn together. Haia would read a section in her book and I would follow along in my book until she stopped. That's how I knew it was my turn. Then we would talk about it in English and she made notes and underlined her scriptures. She learned things about Nephi that she didn't know, like going back to Jerusalem to get the records from Laban and breaking his bow and the Liahona. After a while, she had a lesson prepared, and I think it will be a good one. That qualifies as a tender mercy and an answer to our prayers.
Want to know the rest of the story? (this is so embarrassing)
The lesson is about Nephi's great attitude. "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." 1 Nephi 3:7
Yes, I'll admit it. I was more like Laman and Lemuel this week than I was like Nephi. I murmurred. BUT . . . I repented really fast. I'm good at that.
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