Sis. Pressler taught the lesson today from the manual- #3 The plan of salvation.
I honestly don't know when I have enjoyed a lesson on this so much. We will miss her as she now goes off to serve in Primary but we know there is where she is needed most at this time.
The lesson had a wonderful story it that was worth sharing:
A man walking along the road happens to fall into a pit so deep and
dark that he cannot climb to the surface and regain his freedom. How can
he save himself from his predicament? Not by any exertions on his own
part, for there is no means of escape in the pit. He calls for help, and
some kindly disposed soul, hearing his cries for relief, hastens to his
assistance and by lowering a ladder, gives to him the means by which he
may climb again to the surface of the earth. This was precisely the
condition that Adam placed himself and his posterity in, when he partook
of the forbidden fruit. All being together in the pit, none could gain
the surface and relieve the others. The pit was banishment from the
presence of the Lord and temporal death, the dissolution of the body.
And all being subject to death, none could provide the means of escape.
The
Savior comes along, not subject to that pit, and lowers the ladder. He
comes down into the pit and makes it possible for us to use the ladder
to escape.
In
his infinite mercy, the Father heard the cries of his children and sent
his Only Begotten Son, who was not subject to death nor to sin, to
provide the means of escape. This he did through his infinite atonement
and the everlasting gospel.
