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heads. There was lots of wind anddebris flying around and hitting everypart of my body. It was darker outsideand it looked like the sky was black,but it wasn’t—it was the inside of thetornado. I just closed my eyes, hopingand praying that it would be over soon.“All of a sudden it got quiet.“When I opened my eyes, I saw astop sign right in front of my eyes! Itwas almost touching my nose.” 6Tori, her mother, three of her siblings,and numerous friends who werealso in the school with her miraculouslysurvived that tornado; seven oftheir schoolmates did not.That weekend the priesthoodbrethren gave many blessings tomembers who had suffered in thestorm. I was humbled to give Tori ablessing. As I laid my hands on herhead, a favorite scripture came tomind: “I will go before your face. Iwill be on your right hand and onyour left, and my Spirit shall be inyour hearts, and mine angels roundabout you, to bear you up.” 7I counseled Tori to remember theday when a servant of the Lord laidhis hands on her head and pronouncedthat she had been protectedby angels in the storm.Reaching out to rescue one another,under any condition, is an eternalmeasure of love. This is the service Iwitnessed in Oklahoma that week.Often we are given the opportunityto help others in their time of need.As members of the Church, we eachhave the sacred responsibility “to bearone another’s burdens, that they maybe light,” 8 “to mourn with those thatmourn,” 9 and to “lift up the handswhich hang down, and strengthen thefeeble knees.” 10Brothers and sisters, how gratefulthe Lord is for each and every one ofyou, for the countless hours and actsof service, whether large or small, youso generously and graciously giveeach day.King Benjamin taught in the Bookof Mormon, “When ye are in the serviceof your fellow beings ye are onlyin the service of your God.” 11Focusing on serving our brothersand sisters can guide us to makedivine decisions in our daily lives andprepares us to value and love what theLord loves. In so doing, we witness byour very lives that we are His disciples.When we are engaged in His work,we feel His Spirit with us. We grow intestimony, faith, trust, and love.I know that my Redeemer lives,even Jesus Christ, and that He speaksto and through His prophet, dearPresident Thomas S. Monson, in this,our day.May we all find the joy that comesfrom the sacred service of bearing oneanother’s burdens, even those simpleand small, is my prayer in the name ofJesus Christ, amen. ◼NOTES1. Numbers 11:16–17.2. Thomas S. Monson, “What Have I Done forSomeone Today?” Ensign or Liahona, Nov.2009, 86, 87.3. Matthew 19:20–21.4. Matthew 19:22.5. Matthew 19:21.6. Experience of Victoria (Tori) Sorrels,recounted Jan. 16, 2014.7. Doctrine and Covenants 84:88.8. Mosiah 18:8.9. Mosiah 18:9.10. Doctrine and Covenants 81:5.11. Mosiah 2:17.May 201411