At one stake priesthood session, he spoke to the priesthood holders about the need to care for the welfare farms, which back then was a huge job done totally by the members. We had assignments all the time: I remember planting tomato plants and corn seeds in the spring, then in the summer we weeded the sugar beets, weeded and spaced the corn and weeded the tomato plants. One year the tomato worms were really bad and we had a special job seeing how many tomato warms we could "harvest" bluck from the vines before they could destroy the plants. At one point it got so bad that the bishop or dad paid us a nickel for every worm we brought home in those gallon buckets. We got really good at spotting them.
Then in the fall we harvested the tomatoes and picked the corn, tossing the corn in a hookshot up in the big truck. The hardest job by far was weeding and spacing the sugar beets. The next hardest job was weeding the tomato plants and not chopping down a tomato plant! That was pretty embarrasing!
At that aforementioned stake priesthood session, he talked about responsibility and how important it was to the success of the church and the welfare farms.
He said there are three types of men (people):
One man says he will do the job or task and does it.
Another man says he will do the job or task but doesn't.
Another one says he can't do the job but then shows up and does it.
He asked which one of the three is the most respected?
Which one keeps the work moving forward?
And which one believes in repentance?
And which one causes the greatest harm to himself, others and the work?
The memory of Pres. Bawden teaching this lesson often comes back to me when I fail to follow through on a task or when one of my kids fails to do what he says he'll do.
My dad as far as I remember was a great example of doing what he said he would do when it came to church assignments.
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