Brain dump

Bishop Barrus is first speaker.

We love God first.
We love our neighbors second.

Love is not motivation always though so where is it?

It ought to be. A good servant is one who always would do more if we could.

Best motivation is live and that is service.

Service should be done so frequently so it is not a a burden.

Our prayers fund answers by way of serving others.

We demonstrate our love of God by how we serve him. And that is how we answers us. He uses us to answer others through our service to them.

Safe place to raise children is a Christ Centered home.

There is no disposition to do evil.

Service lifts us, too!

Testimony of his wife found peace in her suffering through serving others.Ordinances give us strength, they are evidence of the power of God.

Covenant is a thing we accept. It is a  blessing with conditions set by God and cheerfully we accept it.

His father was called to a position without previous communication because of his being a covenant keeping man.

An important thing to consider is that the early pioneers were treking into the unknown.

The pioneers had prophets through.

There are great blessings with ordinances and covenants.

If parents keep covenants and teach their children of them then, we will be blessed in the grandest ways. Setting that exsmple is sooo important.

We will have a greater capacity to endure the trials of life.

Opportunity to speak to Heavenly Father is what a prayer is.

You cannot offend God as much as a baby can offend their mother.

As a prayer we need consider approaching the throne of God.

In Russia they use intimate pronouns in prayer.

WHY DO WE PRAY? For strength.

We cannot pray to not be tempted. It would undermine our agency.

Satan tries to keep us from praying because he does not want us to pray.

I have had prayers answered but never even prayed I did not think...but then when I read about Praying Always, I understand that it could not be a commandment to pray always and do anything else.

Missionaries learn exactly how to pray they come closer to emulating Christ. It is something done as always.

Sometimes the most Holy Gtound has been when someone prays for the first time.

Feelings of not wanting to pray come from Satan, but the Lord wants us to pray.

Prayer should be as natural as eating and breathing.

It nourishes us like food.

When we pray at night, we sleep with God.

Praying at meals can be a reminder that we need that nourishment as much as we need food.

We need to pray to recognize and accept the Lord's hand in our life.

God knows best what we need and he sees it all.. an example is Jesus who did not want to suffer, but it was God's will.

We are promised that we shall be given knowledge.

He will draw near unto us, if we draw unto him.

Child learns the most in by the way moment.

Our father wants to be recognized, much like our father, or Heavenly father it is the same.

We learn to know God in our prayers, and we are told that we will recognize his voice....so, speak with him.

Fasting is not just going without food, cause a woman in Africa said "we do that all the time." It is fasting is when you have food, but choose not to eat it.