tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10591601426385036792024-03-05T13:35:39.599-07:00OutnumberedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger898125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-91074284730349391302016-10-03T11:57:00.002-06:002016-10-03T11:57:56.754-06:00091116 Multistake conference<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Waddell </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When studying the scriptures, ask there questions :</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why was this included? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does this apply today? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can't avoid challenges, but we must faith them with faith. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We may not win every battle zbut we will win the war. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find quote by Elder Bednar : if we stay the same spiritually, it won't be enough. We need to be stronger. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book of Mormon helps us remember. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sister Oscarson </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does it mean to be a true disciple? If someone were to observe you without you knowing it, would they know you were a disciple of Christ? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't ever check your religion st the door. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modesty,, morality, and integrity </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can you be a Mormon and still have fun? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A true disciple chooses to live the gospel because they have received a testimony, nit because their parents expect them too. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Hallstrom </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*set up regulations temple trips for kids - Saturday mornings? Friday nights? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Ballard </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sequoia trees on BYU campus one died from last of water, long term members can fall away </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Essential habits: sincere prayer, fast g, regal study scriptures and Ensign, sabbath day, sacrament, temple worship, reaching out to poor and lonely </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk about being addicted to cell phones. Us in the evening, Chandler at school. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can disagree, but not be disagreeable. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Never look down on those who are less educated than we are. Including gospel topics. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-75680207346048350952016-10-03T10:08:00.000-06:002016-10-03T10:08:17.796-06:00Sunday afternoon session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">David A. Bednar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Is it possible to know it, without believing it? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* we can know the Lord and we can also know about him </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian K. Ashton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*read this talk </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carl B. Cook </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*As we serve Him, we get to know God and become more like Him </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Serving in the Church can be scary </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Fulfilling callings requires faith </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ronald A. Rasband </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Heavenly Father, are you really there? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Heavenly Father knows and loves each of us, and He is always ready to help.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* When I'm struggling remember the times that I had spiritual experiences</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Generations are affected by the choices we make</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Remember to write down the spiritual experiences that I have</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evan A. Schmutz </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* There can be Godly purpose in our suffering</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Mark scripture by Paul about light affliction</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* st. Paul had a thorn 3 times went to his knees look it up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* suffering in and of itself does not Grant anything on to US unless we deliberately become involved in the process of learning from our afflictions </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">K. Brent Nattress </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*If everything my children knew about the gospel had come from me, how much would they know? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*reading the book of Mormon everyday </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dale G. Renlund </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Firecracker </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Repentance means change</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Repentance is a choice </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Blaming others allows us to excuse our actions </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Instead of making excuses, let us choose repentance </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The fact that we can repent is the good news of the gospel </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-81112043358197070562016-10-03T10:07:00.004-06:002016-10-03T10:08:10.961-06:00Sunday morning session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Monson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russell M. Nelson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Men are that they might have joy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of 80 huddled in freezing cabin, and they were joyful </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*When the focus of our lives is on the plan of salvation, we can feel joy regardless of what is happening in our lives </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Focusing on joy brings God's power into our lives </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter F. Meurs </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Ways to increase the Sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Prepare in advance </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Arrive early </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Sing and learn from the words of the Sacrament hymn </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Spiritually participate in the Sacrament prayers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Ponder and remember Him as the Sacrament emblems are passed </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda S. Reeves </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of President Packer not remembering his sins because he had repented of them </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We receive joy and happiness when we repent </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of missionary who confessed and had to go home, but came back after a year</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*It is not possible for you to sink lower than the inifinite light of Christ shines </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">M. Russell Ballard </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Never abandon the truths revealed by Joseph Smith </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We must not assume that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*If we seek, really seek with full purpose of heart, and with prayer, we will receive answers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We must love and encourage those who have strayed from the path </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dean M. Davies </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*True worship </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Sometimes we go about serving in our callings as if they were a job</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Worship is essential to our lives </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lynn G. Robbins </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*read talk </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henry B. Eyring </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Gratitude on the Sabbath </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*"Count Your Blessings"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The greatest blessing is the feeling of forgiveness when we are partaking the sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-83533155443197564692016-10-03T10:07:00.002-06:002016-10-03T10:07:39.303-06:00Sunday morning session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Monson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russell M. Nelson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Men are that they might have joy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of 80 huddled in freezing cabin, and they were joyful </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*When the focus of our lives is on the plan of salvation, we can feel joy regardless of what is happening in our lives </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Focusing on joy brings God's power into our lives </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter F. Meurs </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Ways to increase the Sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Prepare in advance </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Arrive early </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Sing and learn from the words of the Sacrament hymn </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Spiritually participate in the Sacrament prayers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Ponder and remember Him as the Sacrament emblems are passed </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda S. Reeves </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of President Packer not remembering his sins because he had repented of them </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We receive joy and happiness when we repent </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Story of missionary who confessed and had to go home, but came back after a year</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*It is not possible for you to sink lower than the inifinite light of Christ shines </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">M. Russell Ballard </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Never abandon the truths revealed by Joseph Smith </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We must not assume that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*If we seek, really seek with full purpose of heart, and with prayer, we will receive answers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We must love and encourage those who have strayed from the path </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dean M. Davies </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*True worship </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Sometimes we go about serving in our callings as if they were a job</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Worship is essential to our lives </span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lynn G. Robbins </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*read talk </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henry B. Eyring </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Gratitude on the Sabbath </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*"Count Your Blessings"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The greatest blessing is the feeling of forgiveness when we are partaking the sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-52528082466494039532016-10-03T10:07:00.001-06:002016-10-03T10:07:32.258-06:00Priesthood session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffrey R. Holland </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Home teaching </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*A monthly visit is still the ideal, but in some areas others ways can be used </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Priority is given to those in need for the home visits </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Lift your vision of home teaching </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Home teachers are God's emissaries to his children</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Church freeze in Ghana </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*2 Nephi 25 "We talk of Christ..."</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Read the Book of Mormon as a family</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dieter F. Uchtdorf </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Alma the Younger </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Everyone would have known him and what he did</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Amulek said that he was called many times and would not hear. He knew concerning these things yet would not believe. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*What can I learn from Alma? How am I like Amulek? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*To be successful, you must find your Amulek </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henry B. Eyring </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*See the potential in others</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Melchizedek priesthood holders needs tor each down and help the Aaronic priesthood holders and help them grow</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Monson</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Word of Wisdom</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Those who follow the WofW are promised great blessings</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-60739579410126789912016-10-03T09:49:00.004-06:002016-10-03T09:49:49.645-06:00Saturday afternoon session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quentin L. Cook </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We don't all have the same stumbling blocks</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Don't elevate anything, even in the gospel, above our devotion to the Savior </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Be valiant in our testimony of Christ </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Avoid the stumbling blocks that impede our progress </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gary E. Stevenson </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Is the Book of Mormon the keystone of my testimony? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The Book of Mormon was written for me and my day </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Read it more every day. Replace screen time with reading time. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">D. Todd Christofferson </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Love can transform a soul </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We all have potential</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We shouldn't be content with where we are, we can always be more </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">W. Mark Bassett </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Toy golden plates, intent on what was on sealed portion, never read what was on unsealed portion </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The Lord's pattern for learning is timeless </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We not expected to know all things</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese guy Yamashita </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Be ambitious for Christ </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*I need to keep praying and fasting for Taylor </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We can feel joy in the midst of trials</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We are ambitious for Christ when we serve faithfully , accept humbly, endure nobly, pray fervently, and partake worthily.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dallin H. Oaks</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*God loves all of children </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*We should love all as our brothers and sisters </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*What could be more joyful than sharing God's truths with God's children </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*First, pray for the desire </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Second, live it</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Third, pray for inspiration for what we can do personally to share the gospel. Tell the Lord that if He inspires us to speak to someone, we will do it. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Pray personally and in our families for missionary opportunities </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*People learn when they are ready to lean, not when we are ready to teach them </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Invite them to learn more about Christ, not more about our church </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Cab driving missionary </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Release the tongue = release the thumbs </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-22843935740816161832016-10-03T09:49:00.001-06:002016-10-03T09:49:15.295-06:00Saturday morning session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The First Presidency is sitting on the wrong side!
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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*read/listen to his talk again
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Robert D. Hales
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*Teach children
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*Family Home Evening
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*You cannot pray away agency
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*Wayward children - Pray to know when to talk and when to be still
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*Sometimes it's their life experiences that help them come back
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*Let the Savior be your caregiver
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*Teach children to love and serve one another
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Carol F. McKonkie, YW presidency
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*If we expect to receive, we must ask
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*We pray to Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost, thus using all three members of the Godhead when we pray.
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*We need to know to receive the answers to our prayers
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*Pray always with full hearts
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*We receive answers most clearly when we silence what we want and open our hearts to what God wants for us
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President Monson plopped into chair after song
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Craig C. Christensen
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*Do not let your questions paralyze your faith
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*Read the Book of Mormon as if you are Joseph Smith translating it for the first time.
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*When Joseph translated the Book of Mormon, he learned about things that would happen to him before they had happened
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Juan A. Uceda
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*Story about not listening to prompting and almost losing life
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*In the morning he prayed with his lips, in the evening, he prayed with his heart
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*When you pray, are you really praying, or are you saying your prayers?
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J. Devn Cornish
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*Sisters and Brothers
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*We false judge our self worth by the opinions of others
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*The only option of us that matters is what out Heavenly Father thinks of us
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*Yes, I am good enough
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*Yes, I will make it as long as I keep repenting and do not rationalize or rebel
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*All the Lord expects of us is to try, but we really have to try
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*It is not possible to sink lower than Christ's infinite Atonement
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*Premeditated sin is the worst
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*With repeated sin, we distance ourselves from the Savior
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Neil L. Andersen
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*Temple work is like a giant puzzle
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*Guilt has an important role. It awakens us to the changes we need to make.
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*The timing of someone else's conversion is not up to us. Think Taylor.
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*Share the gospel, and don't be discouraged if someone says no
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-30374946322078904482016-10-03T09:48:00.002-06:002016-10-03T09:48:32.680-06:00General Women's Session, Fall 2016<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jean B. Bingham </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charity </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paused, good discussion about not judging each other especially as family </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Choose to only say positive about myself and others - look for the positive </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carole M. Stephens</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our faith in Christ enables us to meet every situation </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*read this talk again and again! </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie L. Oscarson </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need to be prepared for the storms that lie ahead </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need to see ourselves as essential participants in the gospel </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we don't teach our children true doctrine, and teach it clearly, then the world will them Satan's lies </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dieter F. Uchtdorf</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faith is being sure of what we know and being certain of what we do not see </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are more ways to see than with our eyes, more ways to feel than with our hands, more ways to hear than with our ears </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't say listen harder, but listen differently </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One sees clearly with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two things faith cannot do. First, It cannot violate another's agency. God will invite and persuade, but he will never compel. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second, Faith will never force our will upon God. The purpose of faith is not to change God's will, but to empower us to act on God's will. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We trust not only in God's wisdom, but that we also trust in his love. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the end, all things will make sense. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Story - 2 missionaries didn't give up, etc floor, last door, mother just lost husband, young girl asked to listen, joined church, deacon in ward grateful for those missionaries who didn't give up </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-28540948262302258802015-05-11T06:58:00.001-06:002015-05-11T07:00:00.714-06:00When we want God to speak to us<p dir="ltr">Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:</p>
<p dir="ltr">“When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures; for His words are spoken through His prophets. He will then teach us as we listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“If you have not heard His voice speaking to you lately, return with new eyes and new ears to the scriptures. They are our spiritual lifeline” (“Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 26–27).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-29572775252987706412015-05-06T10:25:00.001-06:002015-05-06T10:25:39.612-06:00For those in the Ordain Women movement<p dir="ltr">Elder H. Ross Workman of the Seventy spoke about murmuring. He said that “murmuring consists of three steps, each leading to the next in a descending path to disobedience.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">First, when people murmur, they use their own judgment and begin to question the teachings of the living prophets. “They [question] first in their own minds and then [plant] questions in the minds of others.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Second, those who murmur begin “to rationalize and excuse themselves from doing what they [have] been instructed to do. … Thus, they [make] an excuse for disobedience.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The third step inevitably follows: slothfulness in following the commandment of the Master [see D&C 58:29]. …</p>
<p dir="ltr">“I invite you to focus on the commandment from living prophets that bothers you the most. Do you question whether the commandment is applicable to you? Do you find ready excuses why you cannot now comply with the commandment? Do you feel frustrated or irritated with those who remind you of the commandment? Are you slothful in keeping it? Beware of the deception of the adversary. Beware of murmuring” (“Beware of Murmuring,” Ensign, Nov. 2001, 85–86).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-3180154215944500292015-03-24T22:10:00.001-06:002015-03-24T22:10:03.815-06:00Chicks<p dir="ltr">I saw this on Pinterest and had to try it. My fruit cups had the expiration date and stuff on the top, so I took some fingernail polish remover and a cotton ball and took it off. I then drew the chick's on with Sharpies. They turned out so cute! </p>
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<p dir="ltr">I'll post pictures when it is done. </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ws7IxNjQfxQ/VRDeX-Wf-kI/AAAAAAAAVnM/Lm4bBra71To/s1600/IMG_20150323_214619.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ws7IxNjQfxQ/VRDeX-Wf-kI/AAAAAAAAVnM/Lm4bBra71To/s640/IMG_20150323_214619.jpg"> </a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-20770549607639854192015-03-21T18:34:00.001-06:002015-03-21T18:34:40.354-06:00Unicorn Poop<p dir="ltr">These were so fun to make. I had the help of The Princess and her cousin, so it got a little messy, but they had so much fun! They end up similar to a Peep, but more flavorful. </p>
<p dir="ltr">What you'll need:</p>
<p dir="ltr">*3 bags of big marshmallows <br>
*6 small boxes of Jell-O - one for each color of the rainbow, or whatever you want! <br>
*Bowl of water <br>
*Treat bags</p>
<p dir="ltr">And that's it. Super simple. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Pour one box of Jell-O into a zipper bag. Work with one flavor/color at a time. Dip a marshmallow into the water, getting the whole thing wet. Shake off the excess water, then drop into the Jell-O. Close the bag and shake to coat. Take the marshmallow out and place on cookie sheet to dry. Your fingers will get stained! </p>
<p dir="ltr">One small box of Jell-O did about 20-22 decent looking marshmallows, and a few more that were too ugly to hand out. The younger your helpers are, the fewer pretty ones you'll get! </p>
<p dir="ltr">We ended up with 16 bags that had every color. Of course, some were eaten along the way, and we didn't bag the ugly ones...they got eaten too! The Princess wanted labels, so she designed one that said, "Here's a bag of Unicorn poop for my friend." Nice, right? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Try them out and let me know how you liked them! </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-G-XeonzHojE/VQ4OHcI6P-I/AAAAAAAAVlg/n5xd6sB4koQ/s1600/IMG_20150321_181624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-G-XeonzHojE/VQ4OHcI6P-I/AAAAAAAAVlg/n5xd6sB4koQ/s640/IMG_20150321_181624.jpg"> </a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-52320292330296202692014-11-21T06:20:00.001-07:002014-11-21T06:20:14.408-07:00If it is not good<p dir="ltr">"If it is not clean, do not think it; if it is not true, do not speak it; if it is not good, do not do it." - Carlos E. Asay </p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-33608729208402701152014-11-18T06:51:00.001-07:002014-11-18T06:51:11.815-07:00Follow the Prophet <p dir="ltr">Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained why it is of critical importance for us to follow the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles today:</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The apostolic and prophetic foundation of the Church was to bless in all times, but especially in times of adversity or danger, times when we might feel like children, confused or disoriented, perhaps a little fearful, times in which the devious hand of men or the maliciousness of the devil would attempt to unsettle or mislead. Against such times as come in our modern day, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve are commissioned by God and sustained by you as prophets, seers, and revelators. . . . </p>
<p dir="ltr">“. . . Such a foundation in Christ was and is always to be a protection. . . . In such days as we are now in—and will more or less always be in—the storms of life ‘shall have no power over you . . .’ [Helaman 5:12]” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2004, 5; or  Ensign,Nov.2004,7).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-70588723231656080852014-11-16T06:41:00.001-07:002014-11-16T06:41:37.866-07:00Follow the Prophet <p dir="ltr">Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught that we, like the Nephites, must follow our prophet if we hope to find safety, peace, prosperity, and happiness: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“It is no small thing, my brothers and sisters, to have a prophet of God in our midst. Great and wonderful are the blessings that come into our lives as we listen to the word of the Lord given to us through him.... When we hear the counsel of the Lord expressed through the words of the President of the Church, our response should be positive and prompt. History shows that there is safety, peace, prosperity, and happiness in responding to prophetic counsel” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2001, 84; Ensign, May 2001, 65).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-63373075053244314232014-10-19T07:02:00.001-06:002014-10-19T07:02:27.938-06:00Becoming offended <p dir="ltr">Elder David A. Beggar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles described the fact that we, like Pahoran, can choose to not be offended: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“When we believe or say that we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else. . . . </p>
<p dir="ltr">“Through the strengthening power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, you and I can be blessed to avoid and triumph over offense. ‘Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them’ (Psalm 119:165). . . . </p>
<p dir="ltr">“. . . As described by Elder Neal A. Maxwell, the Church is not ‘a well-provisioned rest home for the already perfected’ (in Conference Report, Apr. 1982, 57; or  Ensign, May 1982, 38). Rather, the Church is a learning laboratory and a workshop in which we gain experience as we practice on each other in the ongoing process of ‘perfecting the Saints.’ </p>
<p dir="ltr">“Elder Maxwell also insightfully explained that in this latter-day learning laboratory known as the restored Church, the members constitute the ‘clinical material’ (see ‘Jesus, the Perfect Mentor,’  Ensign, Feb. 2001, 13) that is essential for growth and development. . . . </p>
<p dir="ltr">“You and I cannot control the intentions or behavior of other people. However, we do determine how we will act. Please remember that you and I are agents endowed with moral agency, and we can choose not to be offended” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2006, 95–97; or  Ensign, Nov. 2006, 90–91).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-5372200603186734522014-10-14T07:13:00.001-06:002014-10-14T07:13:31.536-06:00Covenant Women <p dir="ltr">Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, described covenant women who know who they are: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“In the Book of Mormon we read about 2,000 exemplary young men who were exceedingly valiant, courageous, and strong. ‘Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him’ (Alma 53:21). These faithful young men paid tribute to their mothers. They said, ‘Our mothers knew it’ (Alma 56:48).... </p>
<p dir="ltr">“The responsibility mothers have today has never required more vigilance. More than at any time in the history of the world, we need mothers who know. . . . When mother's know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2007, 80; or Ensign, Nov. 2007, 76).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-22815792211939095462014-10-03T06:26:00.001-06:002014-10-03T06:26:52.303-06:00Wickedness never was happiness <p dir="ltr">“Many people try to find happiness and fulfillment in activities that are contrary to the Lord’s commandments. Ignoring God’s plan for them, they reject the only source of real happiness. They give in to the devil, who ‘seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself’ (2 Nephi 2:27). Eventually they learn the truth of Always warning to his son Corianton: ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ (Alma 41:10).... </p>
<p dir="ltr">“As you seek to be happy, remember that the only way to real happiness is to live the gospel. You will find peaceful, eternal happiness as you strive to keep the commandments, pray for strength, repent of your sins, participate in wholesome activities, and give meaningful service. You will learn to have fun within the limits set by a loving Father in Heaven” (True to the Faith, 79–80).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-29267738777191115762014-09-30T06:40:00.001-06:002014-09-30T06:40:45.103-06:00Repentance <p dir="ltr">Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught that the Lord will be with and strengthen you as you properly repent: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“To you is extended the peace and renewal of repentance available through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. In such serious matters the path of repentance is not easily begun or painlessly traveled. But the Savior of the world will walk that essential journey with you. He will strengthen you when you waver. He will be your light when it seems most dark. He will take your hand and be your hope when hope seems all you have left. His compassion and mercy, with all their cleansing and healing power, are freely given to all who truly wish complete forgiveness and will take the steps that lead to it” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1998, 101–2; or Ensign, Nov. 1998, 78).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-26512933629043559982014-09-28T06:54:00.001-06:002014-09-28T06:54:16.988-06:00Prospering in the land<p dir="ltr">Alma referred to a recurring theme in the Book of Mormon of prospering in the land. Alma 36:30 gives contextual meaning to that phrase. It is not necessarily intended that all inhabitants will become materially rich in this life. Rather, there is a spiritual meaning to the word prosper. This verse teaches us that if we do not “keep the commandments of God,” then we shall not prosper but be “cut off from his presence.” Therefore, those who prosper in the land are those who are successful in obtaining the spiritual blessings of being close to the Lord. They are on a track that will lead to entering the Lord’s presence.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-74790024515986807082014-09-24T06:55:00.001-06:002014-09-24T06:55:55.770-06:00Faith unto repentance <p dir="ltr">Alma 34:14–17. “Faith unto Repentance”</p>
<p dir="ltr">While serving as a member of the Seventy, Elder Robert E. Wells spoke of the faith required to bring changes in our lives sufficient to participate in the Atonement of Jesus Christ:</p>
<p dir="ltr">“‘Just how much faith do I need for the Atonement of Christ to work for me? ’In other words,how much faith do I need to receive salvation? In the book of Alma . . . we find the answer. The prophet Amulek taught this simple but grand principle: ‘the Son of God, . . . bringeth about means unto men that they may have faith unto repentance’ (Alma 34:14–15; emphasis added).</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Please note those three words: faith unto repentance. That is the clue. Four times in three verses he uses that expression <br>
[see Alma 34:15–17].... </p>
<p dir="ltr">“So the combination of faith in Christ plus faith unto repentance is vitally important. That concept is one of the <u>greatest</u> insights we have into the importance of simple, clear faith—faith sufficient to repent. Apparently faith great enough to move mountains is not required;faith enough to speak in tongues or to heal the sick is not needed;all that we need is just enough faith to recognize that we have sinned and to repent of our sins, to feel remorse for them, and to desire to sin no more but to please Christ the Lord. Then the greatest miracle of all, the Atonement, whereby Christ rescues us from our deserved punishment, is in effect in our behalf” (“The Liahona Triad,” in Bruce A. Van Ogden and Brent L. Top, eds., Doctrines of the Book of Mormon: The 1991 Sperry Symposium [1992],6–7).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-26134345701806356282014-09-22T06:49:00.001-06:002014-09-22T06:49:06.610-06:00Now is the time<p dir="ltr">President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, “Ours is not a second hand religion. We cannot receive the blessings of the gospel merely by observing the good that others do. We need to get off the sidelines and practice what we preach... </p>
<p dir="ltr">“...Now is the time to embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, become His disciples, and walk in His way” (“The Way of the Disciple, Ensign,May2009,76–77).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-15018583885742920022014-09-21T06:56:00.001-06:002014-10-26T06:47:21.096-06:00Blessings through tribulation <p dir="ltr">President Lorenzo Snow (1814–1901) spoke of the blessings that come through tribulation: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“I suppose I am talking to some who have had worry and trouble and heart burnings and persecution, and have at times been caused to think that they never expected to endure quite so much. But for everything you have suffered, for everything that has occurred to you which you thought an evil at that time, you will receive fourfold, and that suffering will have had a tendency to make you better and stronger and to feel that you have been blessed. When you look back over your experiences you will then see that you have advanced far ahead and have gone up several rounds of the ladder toward exaltation and glory... </p>
<p dir="ltr">"Take it individually or take it collectively, we have suffered and we shall have to suffer again; and why? Because the Lord requires it at our hands for our sanctification” (The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams [1984], 117–18).</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059160142638503679.post-39166101129766555232014-09-21T06:45:00.001-06:002014-09-21T06:47:10.181-06:00Power of the scriptures <p dir="ltr">•President Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) spoke of the power of scriptures to help us draw nearer to God: </p>
<p dir="ltr">“I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures, the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel” (“What I Hope You Will Teach My Grandchildren and All Others of the Youth of Zion” [address to Church Educational System religious educators, July 11, 1966], 4).</p>
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