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Week 2: What connections do you see between Jeffrey Thompson’s article, the Gospel, and social innovation?

Moving right along, already in week 2. This week we learned more about how not everyone should be a social entrepreneur but that everyone can have a part in working in and with the solutions that social entrepreneurs create. We can be a help and work to overcome obstacles, help build or volunteer our time/services. I appreciate this because I am starting to see that this may be where I am best suited to be. Which I am ok with. I think that what I am trying to do is to be involved.
This week’s prompt is: What connections do you see between Jeffrey Thompson’s article, the Gospel, and social innovation?
It is clear that becoming a social innovator is a sort of calling all in itself. However, what I found interesting is that just like in the gospel, we all have a part to play. Heavenly Father will place us in the right place for us to be. For example, I have several times been called to teach in primary. In fact, I have only ever had two callings outside of primary, and both were either dissolved or they called someone else to it nearly immediately. I would love to serve in another capacity, however, it seems I am best suited to teaching the children. Heavenly Father knows this, I now know this, it just works. We learned this week that not everyone can or should be a social innovator because the social innovators need people to implement the plans, to help and volunteer time, expertise or supplies, etc. We see this in the functions of the church and in the way that the Gospel is spread. We have missionaries out there sharing the Gospel, volunteering 18 months - 2 years of their lives to that work. The church helps in the implementation of the plan that Heavenly Father created and Jesus set in motion. Just like the pyramid assignment this week, the innovator is the top, the implementors are in the middle and the volunteers/workers are most abundant at the bottom.

One question that kept coming to mind this week was: How can we best help the innovators? I see a problem, but I am not quite an innovator? What do I do? How do I get involved in that cause? I think that this must be a similar issue with many people. We just don’t know how to solve the problems we see or who the innovator is? I look forward to learning some of the answers to these questions in the coming weeks. 

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