Sunday, May 18, 2014

Brain dump

Alma scripture tells how we get help from the Lord as well as from one another.

Women have differences in person and carried struggles and need one another.

15 minutes in the morning.

Scriptures help us escape from the world, though we cannot actually leave it, we can gain the experiences of a Heavenly Home.

Peace is found by uniting with one another, being of one heart with one another.

Testimony is gained like never before mission. His mission president is called of God.

Service is key to any mission. People will hold on to a good feeling wether or not they remember your message.

***Love is the universally recognized truth.

Scripture of words spoken at the waters of Mormon.

Central to our faith is mourning with others.

Missionaries do not teach but the spirit does, they just live so that they can easily bring that spirit to others.

Story about how they were able to help a family and this opened the heart of a father of a family who was not a member, and listened, but rejected it seemed, everything that he was taught.

We do not always see what came before and comes after our act of service to others.

Our spirituality shows in our countance.

Will we be recognized by others? Ie class reunions etc

Callings help us develop as much as scripture reading forms our character which is just as much an evident part of ourselves.

Just because you have an ease doesn't mean it is correct.story of distance runner, the winner is not necessarily the one who is naturally gifted.

We are blessed when we are trying our hardest. This is evident by the bishop who is somehow able to do all things over which he is responsible.

Story of stoping a bad habit by paying a friend a quarter when he faltered.

Trust exercise. Some try to compensate for what will go wrong, 2nd time you no longer doubt.

Gospel principles are easy to doubt instead of trust too.

I like how brother Larsen did not know but went anyway, but was obedience.

Faith is first because it is where it starts.
It is a gift. If we gain the trust via experience, but some can know.

Desire a blessing, do you have the faith to not be healed. We do not know what will happen.

When we pray our answers come in a round about way, God is not desiring to get credit like we expect.

If we do not participate you will not gain until you try.

Faith in the atonement you have to really believe it.

It is harder once you fall, and that is better because more faith is required to believe even though things did not appear to work, but you have to try again.

Satan will be bound by us having faith first and then we know things and it will be impossible to tempt us.

Some things require work.

You are NEVER alone when you serve him, so it is important to remember that you facilitate, but HE does the duty.

Story of getting a mission call, and elder who submitted his papers, but felt like the call was wrong, he didn't have faith, so he needed time. Faith proceeds the miracle, if he does too soon, you do bot get to exercise the faith, and gain a testimony.

Relief Society -

Who ever has enough of what you don't need.

We were shown a lot of various books that entertain and such, but the best books are our scriptures.

If we read our scriptures we will be ahead in the world ahead.

Joseph Smith was given scriptures as the age of eight and preferred to read his scriptures than all else. He was a scriptorian.

We all need to be learning continually, especially the gospel, because knowledge is the thing we take with us.

Quote scriptures is good, but the part we remember becomes part of us and part of our testimony.

It is important to understand that revelation comes from God, if a things doesn't seem right, we can get personal revelation from the same source and know if a thing is the same.

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