Beach Boil

 My friend had a party at the beach and it was so wonderful.  I got to see old friends and relax and hang out.  I feel like every social event I go to these days is the best party I've been to in the last 18 months!  I'm like "Parties are so fun!  Why haven't we done this in so long!?"  Of course we didn't because of the pandemic.  People disagree about whether it is or isn't a serious deal.  2 friends of mine recently got really sick with Covid, like last week.  I don't know why they didn't get the vaccine.  They, like so many other un-vaccinated (?) didn't wear masks to church once it wasn't required.  I don't get it.

In other news my RS president has been without a compassionate service coordinator for 7 months.  She said meals for people can be just worked out between the people who need meals and the people who want to give meals.  I have been in the middle of many conversations where the 2 parties should have talked to each other instead of relaying through me.  So I'm happy for this.  So often our institutions get in the way of people reaching out to each other.  We wait for the compassionate service leader to call us.  She tries to not call the same people all the time.  Whether you get meals or not is decided by a 3rd party, not by whether people want to give you meals.  So having a compassionate service leader disrupts the natural flow of empathy and service.  But sometimes it is really nice to have someone else coordinating meals.  It's tricky to have one of your sisters who is capable of really doing the calling and taking the burden from the RS president, tied up in a calling that is only active intermittently when people have a birth, death or major illness.  

I'm re-visiting the book Multipliers.  I think there is a lot to be said for leading in a way that increases the abilities of those around you, instead of leading by doing everything yourself.  I think the church means to lead in a multiplying way, but that we don't teach the people in charge to not do everything themselves.