Stand In

During Sunday School I was asked to teach the lesson in Priesthood today.  Someone was out and President Blodgett thought he should ask me to stand in.  I happily said yes.  There wasn't a lot of time to prepare for it but fortunately I had listened to the talk that was assigned to the lesson a few times previously, the last time was this past week. I had actually thought a lot about the message of the talk when I listened to it this week and realized that I needed to act on the invitations extended during the talk.  I hadn't done it yet because it seemed like it was going to be way to involved.  As I went through the talk this week it struck me that it doesn't need to be hard but can be kept simple. This was a talk about pondering the scriptures.  At dinner we talked about things and we are going to start working on this idea of ponderizing the scriptures.  Should be fun.  Anyway, I was grateful to stand in.  I enjoyed the lesson and certainly enjoy that companionship that exists in the quorum.  Happy to stand in anytime.