Elder Scott said sometimes to magnify your calling is to do less, not more.(See Richard G. Scott, "The Doctrinal Foundation of the Auxiliaries," Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, Jan. 2004, 7.) You've brought more focus to it, you've exercised better judgment. You've increased the quality, but the sheer mass may be smaller, not greater. That's an equally liberating thought, I think-not to shirk, not to be a slacker, but to really, seriously look at the big picture, including the big picture of the family, and maybe sometimes do less.


Elder Holland. Roundtable Discussion (Dallin H. Oaks, Jeffrey R. Holland, Julie B. Beck, Susan W. Tanner, Cheryl C. Lant) - Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up a Righteous Posterity, February 9, 2008