The Blessing of Work | Sister Colleen Andersen

Sister Colleen Andersen
Hawaii Honolulu Mission Leader
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Sister Colleen Andersen speaks at today’s devotional, highlighting the importance of hard work as a divine principle essential for both temporal and spiritual growth. Through personal experiences and scriptural examples, she emphasizes that work brings joy, discipline, and blessings. Church leaders teach that God's work is to bless and uplift us, and we, in turn, should embrace work as a privilege rather than a burden. Sister Andersen encourages resisting idleness and recognizing work as a key to personal and eternal progress.

“To be given work to do from God is a supernal privilege, and is one reason missionary work is so incredibly joyful. When we do the work God has asked us to do, it brings blessings and it brings joy.”
– Sister Andersen

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Colleen Andersen, born in Orem, Utah, earned a nursing degree from Utah Technical College (now UVU) and worked as a nurse until becoming a mother. She later served as a Mission Nurse in Texas and held various callings in Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society. A dedicated temple ordinance worker, she is also a skilled seamstress who has quilted hundreds of quilts. Her greatest joy is her family, having had children in France and Australia. Strong, resilient, and hard-working, she is a devoted wife, mother, friend, and the best grandma ever.

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