The Master Potter

Elder Heber C. Kimball was a blacksmith and a potter by trade. He earned his living by the sweat of his brow. But being a potter requires considerable perseverance and knowledge. In Elder Kimball’s time, the only way to learn such a skill was as an apprentice to someone who had mastered the craft, and it is usually a hard-won skill, requiring many hours of practice and failure, before mastery comes. For some few, however, it comes naturally, less a skill than a talent.

Missing Things

Many times, we are confronted, even ridiculed, by those who would draw us into the “great and spacious building” that Lehi saw in his dream. The place where, they tell us, all of the good things of the earth can be found. Sometimes, perhaps, we even find ourselves yearning for those things.