The key to feeling useful and overcoming loneliness is to look for ways to help others who are in need. President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) suggested that senior members of the Church consider serving in the following ways:
1. Working in the temple and attending often.
2. Collecting and writing family histories.
3. Becoming involved in missionary service.
4. Building family togetherness.
5. Accepting and fulfilling Church callings.
6. Rendering Christlike service.
7. Staying physically fit, healthy, and active.
From Ezra Taft Benson, "To the Elderly in the Church," Ensign, Nov. 1989, 4–6.
Elvira Guagliarello
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