Brain dump

Served mission 25 Yrs ago

Talk about what don't deserve, tend to only note the things thst bad happen, shift to focus on the good things we don't deserve.

Joseph Smith was grateful for what he was allowed to endure.

We see things as they end when things never end for real.

Thankful for illness, so he could. Understand others.

Peace is a result of gratitude.

Gratetitude makes us happy.

Everyone is facing something sad.

But, the worst thing is to face loosingpll the things you used to hold true. So we don't have it to help us through.

This horrible thing is not seen by our support groups or other worldly philosophies.

Sodom and gommorah did not become wicked all at once, but it is gradual like personal falling away.

One thing we can do to combat the bad feeling is to be grateful. Not necessarily what we are grateful for, but instead make it a shift in our perception to be more positive.

As we are impressed with the pioneers, if they saw us they would be as impressed with the things that we endure spiritually.

We promise to bear one another's. Burdens, sometimes we can just go listen (story about tsunami in Thailand) often, all we can do is pray. Fasting mentioned, but best thing shared was in the temple how it was made known that God does hear our prayers.

Even work for the dead is done by people who means something to them.

It was noted how names were just written on a paper and dunked.
Someone said that would be easier than trying to read some of those names.

Story of hie someone joked about his Underwear,  we will be given what to say. He talked about it's reason.

We ought to notice the details in sacraments.

L Tom Perry wrote as now we take the sacrament.

Some are not worthy to take the sacrament.

Artists have something to teach us. We speculate what they mean.

Uchdorf compared artists to each of us and our teacher pointed out that we are all are like God, creative. We are God's greatest creation.

We get so much from the besuty of the world, but the greatest joy comes from the delights of our children.

Trees are a lot like our muscles, resistance makes us stronger and able to bear things.

Our muscles seem to just be getting sore when we work. This stage is where we give up and whine but as muscles to be built we need protien spiritually opposition might just be a reason to whine or we decide to prepare to let our opposition make us stronger.

Opposition arises have a time out.

Temple prayers. Choices was my goal in young women that I learned that you can actually choose to be happy esch day for a month.

Will we really be exaulted for enduring our trials? It almost makes one wish for trials or the opportunity to struggle and show our colors.

There is no shortcut to becoming good at a thing.