Brain Dump

Upon pondering, it was realized that he was loved and his Heavenly Father cared about wether or not he would succeed.

The atonement is real, and he personal experiences that has leac to understanding that truth.

Look up what being valiant is.

By being given a calling, she became the one right for it, after reading the sort of person needed.

It was so significant to have p blessing to add that bit of perspective that Heavenly Father gives,us. He knows exactly what we need to become who we ought to.

Go, do, see, feel.

A guy who makes you smile to be around, you find your face from being around him.

Being valiant is what seperates people who are obviously good but they fail to act.

There are things that are for some people, like Sushi, then there are unchanging things that remain constant, those are truths.1

Moses sees God and then right after he is tempted, and Moses gives us an example of how to act...because right after we are given constants we will be tested.

No matter what happened to someone, they still had a testimony. Christ is our constant in mortality.

Heavenly Father wants us all to return to him, and we want to be with our families. Either way, there are thise who have not had ordinances that are required to be performed for them.

Temple work is an opportunity to help serve others.

Everyone serves dead people, they have to be burried...

Los Angelos temple?

Beautifully simple, and simply beautiful, a perfect place for anyone regardless of intellect or apetites

The Lord is aware of us and our needs so it is important to go to the temple to be close to him.

Story of a woman who felt like she needed to go to someone, but the spirit constrained, so it really make one consider how some inclinations are not others or the Lord's but our own inclination. This would be like when Nephi was told to kill Laban, it went against his nature.

We care as much for out posterity as we do our progenitors due to Elijah's spirit

Sealing is a different way to define the turning of hearts, turning is defined by Joseph Smith as a sealing power.

Elijah was ressurrected? His spirit dwells places, where his body isn't?  Or is it just a way to name the feeling of being obsessed with genealogy.

If Elijah is reported as being on the earth, then it will burn.

I wonder what will happen or has,taken place that is desired by those ancestors that want so much to be done...I am thinking of a name in particular.

We cannot be saved unless we do work for others.

Things are going to be ok, even if things get tough.

Bitter or better choice how to react to things you do not like.

"In the end everything will be ok, so if it is not ok, then, it is not the end."

If it is bad, what are you going to do about it.

********A list of hardships and bad things if we see it properly is also a list of Joy.

Joy is different from Happiness in that it starts with J, that is from me.

When I was having a particularly hard time, we sang the song Count your many blessings and thought, how can that me? I think I will try it out and start a gratitude blog.

A photo of a small child smiling from Peru. It reminded me of the Mission scene and the kids playing on the canoe, it remedies the man who killed his brother and was at an ultimate low.

Best thing I heard ever regarding Joy was J putting Jesus first.
O keep others as the middle
Y putting yourself last

We can claim Joy from our prayers to get it.

Keep our covenants and it will bring us more Joy.

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She had to decide to go to a different school to go to seminary and did so because of what she had read in for the strength of the youth pamphlet.

Personal progress and the FTOTY pamphlet can keep us on that same spiritual high that going to camp and having constant spiritual thoughts.

We need tools, including scriptures to arm us with the necessary armor of God.

Thinking we are prepared but finding out that we aren't  was explained and understood through story of a triathalon.

Remember story of an Eagle raised to be a Chicken and it would not fly even though it was an Eagle, it finally flew when it "stared down the sun". Um, that came to mind, but not applicable as it has been assigned a different meaning in my mind.

Sending our children to primary and ymyw, etc. is yoking them, the process includes getting them trained to be compatible like Yoked Oxen.

We teach our children in the home so that they might absolutely know how to become a disciple of Jesus Christ.

No one will beforced to be a disciple.

If you read the Book of Mormon to your children, they will not go astray, that is a sure promise.

When I thought about myself, it can be depressing, and miserable, but we need to serve others.

It is not selfish to want the rewarding feeling that comes from others.

When we serve we find ourselves because there is more of us to find.

One of most important things to do is family history work and temple work
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Multi stake special needs primary...do as I'm doing, boy in wheelchair. He chose to jump, a girl said I'll jump for him! And the jumped more enthusiastically than usual.

"Spiritually dead will live again." This can be accomplished because of the atonement.

"I Honestly don't  know how you would raise a family without the Book of Mormon."

Primary child could not even see over the pulpit, and he pulled the mocrophone down and everyone waited to hear what he said and he paused a moment then said, "I need help". This was likened to our prayers.

We need wake up songs for high priests.

Showed two books, one was a science and medicine book and he explain the year it was published and had a book of Mormon from sane year. He explained that if he practiced medicine according to thst book he would be placed in prison, whereas the Book of Mormon was,relatively the same.

When you are truly thirsty, water never tasted so good.

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Nov. 19, 2016

If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him... -Rev 3:20

It is notable that one does not just open the door, but to one who they recognize the voice of.

This session is the greatest meeting of the church.

It is important to remember that we will be instructed by special witnesses of the Lord.

Mission presidents of the past have all relocated permanently to this area. Ogden, UT

Building bridges to other cultures and religion need to unite and realize similarities as children of God.

Great work is being done because of kindred spirit shown and recipients desire to know more.

A reminder that the Lord is mindful of us, the fact that things that we only speak of to the Lord are coincidentally answered  through others.

Likened the church and gospel with a romantic relationship, that we somehow know what we should do.

"Baptism is not like waving a magic conversion wand." -Sis. Driscoll.

Like a relationship we must press forward despite divorce or other potential setbacks.

Like love, we may experience pain, it will not be easy.

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Testimony cannot be taken away.

A big fear of LDS men divorcing is that they become inactive.

"We graduated at the same time, she from kindergarten I from high school."

Atonement leaves no tracks...no trace.

I do not know how it works, but it does.

The savior does not say, "oh no not you again"

Power in inviting others, if they do not accept at least they have a choice to make.

Coincidences are God's way of being anonymous.

"No righteous desire will go unfufilled."

Look up quote by David Bednar regarding how the goal if to provide children a home to be born and love in.

If atonement can help a man who had lived a particularly rough life, then it can erase anything.

"Why would anyone come to church on Sat. Night?" Come and experience it...

Important to send written invitations to people.

I was asked to invite the inviters... when people receive written letters, they will feel the love of the writer.

If I was not already baptized I would have been...um, because of a person's countanance?

A man mentioned a talk about not "The" savior, but her savior.

Invite to cone unto christ.

Other invitations were mentioned like Ishmael and his daughters.

Make your life an invitation. And do not be afraid to give them.

Dc52 a pattern to not be decieved.

Not good for man to be alone, men need helpmeet...it is interesting to study that word.

Joseph Smith TRANSLATED the book not wrote it.

If you regularly study the Book of Mormon, you will not fall astray.

If the Savior were here today, he would likely be in the pentatentaries. In a prison spirit was felt so strongly.

Family history is a lifeline to heaven. In that prison that felt like the temple it housed computers for indexing. It was the closest they could get to the temple.

A helpmeet is an equal and humbling.... his wife said "you may be Dr. Larsen at work and President Larsen at church but, I just need a garbageman".

In defense of Joseph Smith, he asked a boy to write a similar book.

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"The E--- are more than willing to love and serve others."

To prepare for a mission you need to be able to teach repentance  which requires humility.

Trusting the Lord is developed in reading and knowing and living the scriptures.

Personal progress is an ideal way put in place to begin to become faithful children of God.

In 2009 virtue was added, as it is significant to realize being a virtuous woman is part of learning to be a daughter of God.

Church is full of people who are not perfect, but are trying.

It is when we feel inadequate that we are introspective enough to realize what truly matters in life, sometimes it is how we are reassured  of our worth in being placed in humble situations.

A test where honestly answered and got a failing score, although had improved a whole lot when took the test again, he said he would just fail again because he still was the person who actually did those things, but he was conseled to compare himself to what he was by nature to what he had become, and he had improved greatly.

Thinking you are not good enough and will remain unable to improve is a thing that we are often deveived in believing.

No one is ever good enough without the atonement, but we do have him to aide us in our desire to improve.

Temple work starts with the atonement.

Temple is an oasis, and we try to make our home like that.

Temples are the only place on earth to perform ordinances necessart for salvation.

Family is cherokee and African is hard because records were passed by word of mouth

A brother mentioned a promise that there was a way to get his work done. There is a way to find the information. It is possible, despite how it seems.

RELIEF SOCIETY -

Just Serve App instruction. - lots of people know that service is essential to become Christlike but do not know how, so this app will help.

Helps bridge the gap of service prijects that are solely LDS (us or them sort of thing).

Can not attend church but still actively serve others.

This app is not for proselytizing!!!!

"Love thy neighbor as thyself." No reporting back, personal.

Also go to justserve.org

Chuch members workings with anyone to help others in our commujity. Again, not a proselytizing, it had previously been avoided by others because LDS end up taking over. This is thr Lord's way and his means.

Feel free to invite others, as everyone (it might even suprise you who) enjoys  serving others.

Brings down walls put up. It allows us to be partners in serving. Great to do as a family for FHE.

Take pictures of the project and not of the people.

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Both Book of Mormon and Bible are words of God and we will draw closer to God though them.

"I want to be there when the savior returns to the earth." Liz Muphy

Hope for a better world, do not be part of what does not make the world a better place.

People who said they know things, actually do know. That is probably a reason why people who know things are true do not tell us so at testimony meeting, because we should walk by faith.

Gratitude for when we recieve even if it is not fully what we need, there is power in that. Story where a guy showed his gratitude and was instantly, miraculously given what he needed, and he attributes it to being grateful.

Danger is by design.

A boy felt the spirit withdrawl from him when he used love improperly, namely same sex  attraction.

Regarding faith, help thou my unbelief is almost the only solution.

You cannot know, but you must believe and exercise faith, and plant the seed.

If a seed grows you can know it is good.

When you get an answer whatever it was, you need to figure that out. Use faith to know how that is the best.

We need to trust that our Heavenly Father loves and trusts us.