You can put it down in your little black book, Elder Boyd K. Packer has warned us, “that if you will not be loyal in the small things, you will not be loyal in the large things. If you will not respond to the so-called insignificant or menial tasks which need to be performed in the Church and Kingdom, there will be no opportunity for service in the so-called greater challenges.
A man who says he will sustain the President of the Church or the General Authorities, but cannot sustain his own bishop, is deceiving himself. The man who will not sustain the bishop of his ward and the president of his stake will not sustain the President of the Church.” (“Follow the Brethren,” BYU Speeches of the Year, 1965, pp. 4-5, italics added.) President Joseph F. Smith observed, “To do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness” (Gospel Doctrine, pp. 285-86).
“By Small and Simple Things Are Great Things Brought to Pass”
See 1 Nephi 16:29; D&C 64:33. “We observe vast sweeping world events,” Elder M. Russell Ballard remarked; “however, we must remember that the purposes of the Lord in our personal lives generally are fulfilled through the small and simple things, and not the momentous and spectacular” (Ensign, May 1990, p. 6).
We must remember that
“the lengthy trek to Zion is accomplished one step at a time. Just as we do not generally bound into the celestial kingdom after only a brief mortal experience and testing, so also we do not qualify to be called a disciple of Christ by monumental moves alone… . Well might we ask: if the Prophet Joseph had asked me to journey to Missouri, would I have gone?
If the Lord had called me to serve as an Apostle, would I have accepted? If I were asked to tend the children or grandchildren of the members of the First Presidency, would I hesitate? If I had been bidden to attend the School of the Prophets, would I take along my scriptures, study and prepare ahead of time, and attend regularly? If my call to serve as a home or visiting teacher had come to me through an open vision, would I accept? Would I be faithful?”
(Robert L. Millet, An Eye Single to the Glory of God, pp. 73, 76.)