A young couple, Lisa and John, moved into a new neighborhood. One morning while they were eating breakfast, Lisa looked out the window and watched her next-door neighbor hanging out her wash.
“That laundry’s not clean!” Lisa exclaimed. “Our neighbor doesn’t know how to get clothes clean!”
John looked on but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, Lisa would make the same comments.
A
few weeks later Lisa was surprised to glance out her window and see a
nice, clean wash hanging in her neighbor’s yard. She said to her
husband, “Look, John—she’s finally learned how to wash correctly! I
wonder how she did it.”
John
replied, “Well, dear, I have the answer for you. You’ll be interested
to know that I got up early this morning and washed our windows!”
-President Thomas S. Monson :Charity Never Faileth, Oct. 2010
I love this story! I know that as we all treat each other with kindness we will feel our Saviors love, and we will want to strive to become more like Him. We will feel love for those around us, it will make us happier in our day to day lives and we will feel peace. This life is the time for us to prepare to meet God, he loves each of us and wants us to return back to His presence. We aren't perfect, and we will make mistakes, but through our Savior we can repent and strive to become better everyday!
Matthew Chapter 25: 35-40
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
