Brain dump (lotta scriptures)

Provo city temple dedication. Requires worthy members can attend if older than 8 yrs. Old. 18th march to clean stake center 6pm. No meetings in our building that Sunday.

Attendin caucuses is a privilege.

Sat march 22 gen RS meeting.

How do you become a goodly parent?
Easy, you have goodly children.

How we rear our children will make a difference in who they become. Like a flower seed. That grows wild vs. Being nurtured and cared for.

We need to as parents be teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Children need to learn to pray.

Teaching children to work will help them be good missionaries.

By teaching our children about Christ will help them know that they change if they

He says that he loves the fact that he is among friends, and really he is.  So, why is he nervous?

Have Family Prayers and Home Evening, and the church is a great support group.

Bear your testimony to your children often.

Expectations of children make the difference between successful  and un sucessful children.

Story of a viper who had eatten a centipede that was actually larger than it. Probably, mid eatting the thing that came to take up the whole body of the dead viper that ate it the viper was thinking, " forget this..." likened to drug addicts.

Hiking, the group stopped to take notes from a conference. Even then it is that important to hear the words of God.

With Daniel we had the word of wisdom long ago

Moses is an example of how Hod will never leave us to wander unaware. We still have prophets today.

Prophets were saying things that mattered to us today. And they appear as us.

And verily I say unto you, that the conditions of this law are these: All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations, that are not made and entered into and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, of him who is anointed, both as well for time and for all eternity, and that too most holy, by revelation and commandment through the medium of mine anointed, whom I have appointed on the earth to hold this power (and I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and the keys of this priesthood are conferred), are of no efficacy, virtue, or force in and after the resurrection from the dead; for all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead.

The 12 hold the keys, but not authority.
The apostles get to be in many places.

Cumulatively  the 12 hold the same authority.

There will always be things that you do not agree with, but pray for the things (leaders) you do have.

Lord will not let anyone lead us astray or against the will of Christ himself.

The prophet will not say things that go along with the world.

Instantly, I thought of my own mother,  and how different she could have been, but she chose to do and be who she was, she could have been anything!!! SHE IS AMAZING!

RELIEF SOCIETY

I ask myself, “How does the Savior see my faith?” And tonight I ask you, “How does the Savior see your faith?”

34 And now, behold, is your knowledge perfect? Yea, your knowledge is perfect in that thing, and your faith is dormant; and this because you know, for ye know that the word hath swelled your souls, and ye also know that it hath sprouted up, that your understanding doth begin to be enlightened, and your mind doth begin to expand.
35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect?

For me the best example of whay faith is is in Ether, the story of the brother of Jared.

This is from Ether:

And because of the knowledge of this man he could not be kept from beholding within the veil; and he saw the finger of Jesus, which, when he saw, he fell with fear; for he knew that it was the finger of the Lord; and he had faith no longer, for he knew, nothing doubting.

HE HAD FAITH NO MORE.

Faith is an action and power. (Inside Joke here, but I am thinking about Action Man as being Abraham).

Faith can be seen as it is light.

"There is always hope." Vs. The dollar which ought to be more helpful.

Hope can help you. Doubt not fear not. Fear is the opposite  of faith. So when you struggle decide to be helpful instead of fearful or doubtful.

Priesthood is the power of God. It works by our choice to exercise the faith.
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Faith without works is dead.

Faith can lead to good, but it might lead through hardship.

Although we can have a testimony of many things, but only faith in Jesus Christ can redeem us or have any consequence.

It is better to obey than to sacrifice.

Wow, it is amazing how we can take all of the drama and the scriptures and church just tell us black and white what to do. And so we do not need to worry about the rest of the matter, like why or why not to do a thing like smoke.

Obedience promotes faith.

Service strengthens the faith muscles.

Keeping our commandments and covenants help us grow in faith, being in holy places, like in church.

Addressing HONEST QUESTIONS is an important part of building faith, and we use both our intellect and our feelings. The Lord said, “I will tell you in your mind and in your heart.”13 Not all answers will come immediately, but most questions can be resolved through sincere study and seeking answers from God.
(Good song by Daniel Bedingfield)

https://youtu.be/eEDZDE7ftj8

Brain dump

Missionary who served in west Texas, called it the Devil's armpit.

He says giving talks as a RM is a learned thing, because he regularly spoke on his mission.

Not necessary to do everything instantly and fast, but do what is necessary and do it well and "diligently."

When we pray for a thing, we will get it, but it might not work out as we expect, that proves that we ought to trust what we deserve is what we need or the thing we need will come through the thing we want and maybe ruining what we have alot of supposed joy for.

The high councilman said, that if you do not remember anything else remember this: ***because GOD LOVES YOU he wants you to return to be with him.

Being a disciple of Jesus is not easy.

We need to put it as a priority to help others as we may one day deserve pity.

Being Steadfast and immovable is easier if we have Christ as a foundation.

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SS prayer

Everything (all topics)ties back to the plan of salvation. But, number one law is Loving God, so how does it tie back.

When I was a teenager I was trying to decide what the most valuable thing and most significant thing I would teach my children, and the Lord gave the example of Loving others, and I wrote it my journal that if I never taught anything else, I would teach them how to communicate with God.

Prayer is about listening, too.

Voice that can speak to you audibly even, like the time God had to intervene and he sent angels to rescue nephi from his brothers who were going to kill him, but Laman and Lemuel would not listen.

If all we know is what we can see then we do not know much.

It is interesting to me that the first commandment God gave his own children was to call upon God, and Adam would not listen to other teachings, but wanted messengers of his Father to come and tell him what to do...

Taking name in vain, we represent God when we pray, "in the name of Christ". If we do a similar thing.

Worship God in nature, it is worshiping creation.

We are commanded to pray.

We pray when we need to pray for little boo boos.

My friend once said not to wait, but just pray instantly if you need something.

Sometimes we get things out of the act of setting aside that time.

Many troubles of praying are not even valid. But, Prayer is the means of getting power from our Heavenly Father.

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RS

Spiritual toolbox.

Prayer is like a hammer.

God knows and loves us all. We are, every one of us, his daughters and his sons, and whatever life’s lessons may have brought us, the promise is still true: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

Peace comes so that we can handle things and have the peace of mind, and we can have peace of mind.

It offers peace of mind that there is someone who has and can give the perfect solution and he understands no matter how we approach him or eddit what we day.

If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish...

We are commanded to pray always.

What can we do to pray always?

More of a report to your father at then end of the day and just talk. Try to view ourselves as the way we view our own children...makes me think of how I always used to call my mother and just blabber.

Just get in a habit. Be mindful that Satan does not want us to pray.

Just thinking is praying. If we do not actually hear God so maybe we can think and that is a communication.

There is an actual physical act of praying that shows a comittment.

A woman who gave full attention to sunset, no one bothered us at that time.

Nature can be observed and we need to give thanks for it's example of obedience.

"Reverence is the atmosphere of heaven."

Search, ponder, and pray. Represented by the scriptures, meditation and prayer as tools in our spiritual toolbox.

Have a devotional every morning by reading and talking about what you learn.

We all need a place to be our sacred grove.

There are triggers like I was thinking for FHE.

But, out search, ponder, and prayer not need to be in the right order.

Coming to church and be believing is very important as example by the things that have been shared by wonen who I respect.

We need to have the spirit with us to pray in the firstplace. Both things mentioned by another how we need first to believe, and take the sacrament (covenant with father and he will let his spirit be with us).

Fasting purifies us and keeps our "filter" clean.

Maybe we can ask God what do we lack. Not everything at once like man might teach. Holy Ghost helps us prioritize and fight the battles we need to to ultimately win the war.

Brain dump

Valentine's day

Book of Mormon is the basis of what we believe, if we study it, we will learn the full gospel, and everything that we need.

Book of Mormon is compared to a swiss army knife, able to do it all....

When life gets difficult, and he thought life would get easier as we get older, but he is in high school and it keeps getting harder and harder.

We must ask for God's help and perserve when we fail, because what we were being blessed with was not necessarily the virtue we sought, itself but a means to gain the struggle that if we overcome we can gain it.

Basically, read your scriptures, attend church, pray and keep the commandments, that is the foundation put into enough words to fill the time needed.

By small and simple means are (all) great things brought to pass.

Remember who you are. Simba was to become a king.

The world tries to understand things and they how really really far astray they fall opposed to those who have revelation constant companionship of the spirit.

Story of waking up and being directed by the spirit to where children were.

Quantum physics is smaller particles, and has an entirely different set of laws and the spirit is smaller non visible particles. In this science we can explain how a thing NV qDear can coexsist in many places.

Only way to know the book of Mormon is true. Is through the gift of the Holy Ghost which will testify of truth to you.

Challenge each to read the book of Mormon and ask if it (that portion) is true.

**One cannot be a parent without the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
Cannot do it alone, need to work with the father of the spirits and help them to know where to turn for aide.

Think of a way to overcome our trial that we have, also by sharing what confounds us might be clear to others.

Suffering makes us a better person, can make us saints, opposed to just being upset and revel in being.

Suffering offers opportunities we might never have had otherwise.

Story of how soccer was played an offered her a life, via scholarships etc. But, got sick and could not play, but through that we was able to meet and marry her husband.

Another woman story of her husband dying in her 20's she thought her life was over. But, her oppprtunity lead to meeting her husband.

I practiced piano and studied for years just to be a musician and I could not do that at all. I was devestated. But not persuing music forced me to do other things.

I will never join your church! But, he lost job and had to find something else to do, also, ended up going to church, etc. Moving it became necessity.

Imperfect things happen to perfect people. Regarding why the Savior kept his nail markings.

God could change things, but he lets things happen, those opportunities allow us to learn. Great way to parent. God set the example on how we should let make choices.

Reading scriptures helps us in our trials and adversity.

"It came to pass and never did it stay."

Do not have a pity party.

Truck needs enough load to have sufficient traction to get unstuck.

We have trials we look inward and a solution is to look outward.

Every one in the room has a trial and someone else in the room has a solution to that problem.