Brain dump

Bishop thanks others for sustaining. One could tell that he meant it.

Who is your neighbor?
We need  to answer this, if we are to achieve unity.

Some people just naturally do things that,need to be done.

All the ways the temple was a part of our lives was enumerated.

How excited I am that my wife's grandmother got to see the next life?

Fast is like paying for someone's meal as if it were your own.

Law of fast is not a,matter of finance but a matter of faith.

Law of fast, one should read and study Isaiah 58.

More than just not eating, but strengthens the spiritual or divine in us.

It is coupled with prayer. And is a form of work to seek out the blessings that would be ours.

Fasting is a similation of your ability to resist temptation.

What does it mean to be sanctified?

To be free of sin, pure. We need to achieve that. The best way is to honestly fast.

Expirament on the word.

We can fast at anytime, and we do not need to wait until fast sunday.

Why was agency important?
We need to live earth life because

Story of sign that warns of potential damage and the signs are often ignored. The commandments are like unto it.

How teenagers always hate the controlling power of their parents. But, it is very helpful.

Reminds me of a very good video on a teen who realizes that the rules of their parents were actually going to help in the long run.

Like talk of a guy who was talking about break wall, and he was given binoculars to see more than he would have been able to.

It comes down to praying to figure out which is best when making a choice, what is best changes.

Binoculars are helping us to see a problem that we must solve.

Prophets are alot like binoculars and they offer a testimony that someone is speaking, and also that following that omnipotent power will make us happy.

Feel light in our life and then share it with others.

we out to put as much effort into gaining a testimony as we do finding a rare gem like a diamond.

Story of fog stopping someone from swimming the English channel. We suffer because of like stumbling blocks.

If we have a strong testimony we will have less interest in things that fog up our way.

We need to define where our alliegance goes.

Never discredit the work done in our homes.

We are motivated by things. Our motivation is taught to us and we must need to remember what our life should be.

Ask for help in our morning prayer to have ballance restored.

Oars in a boat represent ballance, opposed to a sail that is going to always blow us in the right direction.

Distractions can become motivations. Weaknesses can become strength.

Sometimes we need to cut down to manageable levels "do not run faster than is required."

Change the water to wine, the Savior has the power to do that. The servants had no reason to believe but, they obeyed.

When we sacrifice we are sanctified, that is seen visibly in many movies where a priest is seen to torture themselves to be holy.

There is a power that comes from taking the sacrament. Give your will to our Heavenly father. Be reminded of  the Savior's  sacrafice for us.

In the analogy of the turning of water to wine. It can be plain but turned not into a needed thing, but the best thing.

Heaven won't  be heaven without my wife.

That is it! The more I truly immerse,myself into the things that are true, the more I see so many things I only hope to be true are not.

Know better by serving.

I am a child of God and so________.