Braindump

Poland Warsaw mission report

Told story of dream of files with various subjects, he then realized where he was, "No one,must ever see this room," and a man instinctively read the worst files and claimed them as his own, and upon conclusion after writing his name on them said, "It is finished." This sybolizes our savior.

No one understands us... we all say this, but we have a Savior who has actually suffered as we have and knows how to "succor" us.

On a flight a man who had celebrity status was allowed to get off plane and get burgers for everyone because of this celebrity status he could do a thing for others that they could not do for themselves. This is likened to our Savior.

"Jesus chose to die for us but, he didn't have to."

Or
"Jesus chose to die for us when, he didn't have to."

Liken a package that is made for our loved ones and it actually hurts us that it has been rejected or simply never opened or recieved. This is true with our savior and his gift to us. He has suffered that we might appreciate it.

"Even as a teacher I am being schooled."

It would be hard to know what is going to happen but not tell everyone. Plus, nobody believes you.

When prophets say crazy things like that... wait, wait, that's not what I meant.

There is a formula for how the Lord brings up a prophet. It says so in 1nephi when it says he is born of goodly parents.

A prophet will be prepared by an education of knowledge of words and by trials and sacrifice.

A knowledge of wether a man must be called of God comes as a gift from God, and it is intentional that a man must recieve a testimony of a thing by asking.

Mission call to support the leadership, or else things start to go astray. Example was in Mongolia.

The promises are sealed in heaven, not when, but you surely will receive if you obey the commandment given.

When translating a scripture a whole lot of time must be taken.

It is interesting that LDS did not come up with their own translation but instead just added a new edit of parts.

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Womens conference this saturday.

When you feel your prayers are not being answered, count your blessings.

Ada Hinkley stepped into a family of 8 and had 5 more children, It was marveled at how outstanding she was... example of a daughter of God, one commented that she was a real example of what sort of woman we should be.

We are discussing how genders are not suppose to be equal... it has been mentioned that we are supposed to be on the same team though, I like that. The teacher used that team metaphor to talk about Eve being a helpmeet for Adam that they were to work together in the garden. But, although men may govern and provide it doesn't mean they are above us. But, Adam and Eve were equal to the point that when Eve ate the fruit, things still were worked out, he didn't  forsake her for her "failure".

That reminds me of what I was researching because of a video I was lead to watch because of visiting Tal Bachman's facebook page where a danish Journalist brought out that men needed to stop acting like women, which I thought funny cause ot is sort of a play on the who women's movement seeking equality by doing things that men do.

We should not belittle ourselves because we are daughter's of God.

It is important to keep a journal because it causes us to be more accountable to ourselves, much as prayer does, too.

True power of everything trickling down or should say up to a nation lies in a well taught child.

"Men are the head, women are the neck".

Still, the two need to agree... so both can be independent  and still get to the potential they need.

Men are not the priesthood. They do have that power, but if we are truly one, then

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.

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I do know this , so why do I doubt this? We all need to refresh out testimony.

Are you willing to do what it takes to know?

You feel good, alot of people tell you otherwise, but is humbling to know you are doing great but you recieve no confirmation of it.

God does love us even when things do not seem to indicate it.

I pray notes to my mother through God.

I learned so much about the sort of woman she was in reading letters others had written thanking her for her service.

To remove sorrow from death is to remove love from life.

Just as we trail glory to come to this life we ought to be trailing them as we leave this life.

In all of the great stories in the scriptures, there are many "unsung heroes" such is the case with callings in the church.

"If I had been more resourceful the task would have been easier for me."

Challanges and resourcefulness were two of the three pillars on the trophy/medal.

Family history has,many phases of interest that finally ends as a disease.

Every thing was magnified with the spirit, even the snow is beautiful. -Sis Drosmlcher.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

God could not visit, but when Adam and Eve left the garden they fell and could not be in the prescence of their father, it was like a child being seperated from parents but were given the Holy Ghist to provide comfort and reassurance.

Adam and Eve testify and prophesy when the Holy Ghost falls upon them.

This account is in Moses 5 in PoGP. We are very fortunate to have that.

HolyGhost
3 pillars of Creation

HF is the architect
JC is our Savior
HG is the communicator/comforter
They together are God.

It is curious to me why Joseph Smith was not translated like Moses? Or he could see God whereas Adam could not.

Shalom - peace. "Peace I give you... "

Quote by Parley Pratt about how the Holy Ghost effects you exactly what Sister Droscher said today.

When we recall things by the spirit it is likely more "indellible" than before.

To get you where you are to where you want to be requires overcoming trials.

We all have to endure things but we get little miracles and tender mercies and we need to allow them to charge us (like a breath of air before we dive back down).

God does hear and infact answers prayers because she was trying desperately to change and have a positive.

I asked for happiness, but did not actually believe it was possible.

For getting the putside to reflect the changes that have happened internally will likely take a while.

What are the little tender mercies? They are gifts and do not just happen sporadically or at a time of no consequence. There is a talk by Bednar on it given in april 2005.

Each day look down and record the events that God had done to help us. It helps you be mindful.

When we actively look for them we see them more, we are not actually receiving more in our lives.
"We can live 1 of 2 ways. To believe everything is a miracle or nothing is."- Albert Einstein

Change to being positive is not an instant burst, but a gradual change.

God loves me for who I am and that I am trying to be better.

The most miserable people are the self centeresd ones, a way to overcome is to loose yourself in serving others.

You can choose how to be.

Improvememt is an up and down eb and flow we feel like we are doing a pretty good then we are smacked down.

Walking home, what are you going to see? Your choice what sort of trip you will have.

Men are that they might have joy.

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Story of hometeacher who agreed to help and he was asked to paint a porch, but the guy painted in about an hour and he said,"all done. But, I feel obligated to tell you tgat it was a BMW not a Porsche.

God will never discourage us ever, that is Satan's tool.

If you are on a negative train of thought stop and change, you can only think one thing at a time and if you are thinking a positive thought you will push out any negative thought that there is no room for now, anyway.

Don't strive for perfection, but strive for progress.

Immediate perfection would deny us the power to improve.

Heavenly Father knew the end from the begining and he pushed us on and considered the cost worth it.

Topic of imperfections, One said, I coild speak about my imperfections for 10 minutes easy.

We can be happy regardless of what happens around us.

"We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails." Thomas S. Monson

When I showed Joseph where to find the composer for the hymn he responded, "cool." As I pointed to one he added, " Is that a friend of yours?".

When driving instead of seeing imperfections, he started seeing all the loving people around him...it made him weep out of love for the strangers.

There would only be one saved person without the atonement.

But we are told to "work out our salvation".

Lesson is on the fall. I prefer the spring.

"Everyone is better than Moses in one way or another."

Adam and Eve had bodies made from dust of the earth, but they were not mortal.

No choices had been made in the Garden of Eden... why couldn't Adam and Eve multiply, they knew that it was a commandments.

Part of the viel was removed when they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

So when became mortal they could have children.

Convinced Eve to eat... and she made a choice to eat.

It was pointed out that Eve was foreordained to be the mother so she would be predisposed to eat the fruit, which might be seen as,her being wiser, and perhaps she was wiser than Eve, but she was merely the one who had the attributes.

God cannot make any imperfect thing, so man had to make himself mortal.

But, Satan says that it was done in other worlds. But he did not know what the mind of God was, but if he didn't know the mind of God...was the whole plan presented and satan heard it and such, so not knowing the intent of God seems odd.

Knowing what will happen does not change making a thing difficult.

We sang a song about being sunbeam song, it was used to teach lesson about sharing the restored gospel.

It is not a program to share the gospel but to help others.

It is so interesting to me how I honestly believe that somehow everyone knows exactly what I have been thinking about because it is the very thing that they are discussing. This last time a woman spoke about a woman who was doing a thing and it was the same thing I do.

The gospel has answers for people. When they ask.

Missionary work is optional, that is important to remember.

When you do not have a badge it is harder to share the gospel.

Being a missionary is as easy as setting an example.

Having knowledge is not necessarily a conversion.

"What can I do today to be an instrument in thy hands?"

Brain dump

Missionary served in Tacoma, told stories and how they all taught the plan of salvation and that is what people are "hungry" for.

Missionary mentioned that thpugh all things taught are true the plan of salvation is easiest because of how true it is and it will surely be well recieved.

Instead of re reading his talk to prepare, the high councilman listened to music and the spoken word and it amazes me how much is taught "eloquently in verse".

D & C 93 answers how exercising faith can bring the answer of all things.

"Unto the heart"...then we must bring that into the heart. It is hard to do, and countless people (with no respect of persons) have failed to embrace with faith that which is true.

When struggles we some sotuations where we can only turn to our God. We will find the evidence that our father loves us.

SUNDAY SCHOOL -

Before anything is built is must be planned. Like a garden, so earth must be planned out.

It is important to have a testimony of the creation, then the science will not trip you up.

God loved Saturn so much he put a ring on it.

We need that much space regarding the universe expanding, and our individual potentials.

Time is only identified in mortality.

Don't let what we don't let what we don't know upset what we do know.

We are here to walk by faith, so for now we cannot have factual knowledge of things.

We are trying to be like our father in Heaven, cause we saw what he had and wanted to get that.

(Going to Ghana MTC)

We have an innate desire to create something that did not exist prior.

RELIEF SOCIETY
Hinkleys from canada/new york border

Ira got baptized in Nauvoo, he was young. When going west his wife and half brother passed away on the same day.  Became stk. Pres in Filmore (was originally to be the capitol of Utah)

It is interesting how her pioneer heritage is noting how generation by generation they buildt a family of faith that would be able to reach the point where we are today...hence the did as much for their family as any of the Utah saints did for the church.

"Faith, Hope, Work, and Dream, do you best" that is the pioneer spirit.

GEORGE WASHINGTON was a gift of God. In the right place at the right time. This is the same foundation taught by my philosophy professor regarding political leaders. America needed to be prepared.

The lord knows exactly where we need to be to handle the sacrifuce required.

We need to be seeking out how to help other pioneers.

Story of Sister who thought she was the pioneer and first of her family, but then she discovered that her mom had lost touch with a brother as a lucky find lead her to discover that he had come to Americas and become a latter-day saint.

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When Bishop mentioned that we needed a speaker and she stood perfectly still like on jurasic park, thinking no one can see you if you do not move.

Prayers are answered in three ways.

A burning in our heart
Others.
Or not right now, which feels like nothing, it is time.

We never know if the spirit will strike, so I will go get chalk.

Lesson 4 Freedom to Choose

Two teachers one said Freedom after first mentioned Choosing so many times.
The other says mostly freedom. Maybe that is hos portion of a two-part choice.

You can pick your friends you can pick your nose, but you cannot pick your freind's choice.

Make the right choice while you can or it will be made for you.

There are right and wrong choices and we need to figure out what was right to be able to choose to.

To be happy we have to make choices, and God wants us to be able to be happy.

Opposition was always there, but now with lucifer upped the powerful influence of opposition.

Accountibility creditability... for making good choices.

When we make a good choice we get the freedom to make more choices. Whereas if we make a bad choice it is,restricting.

Favorite scripture is about how we recieve more light when we choose the light.

Sought out classes for help, and was told that as long as you live the best you can, your child will be helped.

You get to see it happens to other and you wish you could take away the agency even .

"Free agency and how to Enforce it."

Never gave the kids a bed time but gave them a wake up time, and they got to learn to depend on that, and make their own choice.

Conquer by love, children will see it and learn to turn to you.

Children look to what you do and if you are doing your best, and loving  your children. Make your home a place children choose to come to.

Sometimes it is a struggle just to figure out that you have choices.

Story of woman who was sustained by a loving family  who loves you regardless of what she had done.

Atonement is ETERNAL.

We make bad choices so that we get to realize what is good.

If everyone is "Super" then no one will be....think of the Incredibles.

Best example of a prayer, he contemplated and thanked for the things taught.

If we decide if we are happy or not, it is common to believe it, so all of us should be happy.

People act as they see the truth.

We develop opinions of ourselves, and we believe. It does not matter what is true, but what we believe is true.

How we saw pictures was different because of certain things and ways we have been taught. It was strange that the one that everyone else had difficulty seeing was the one I saw instantly without difficulty.

A man who trained for a marathon wore overalls and such, no one told him the proper way to run, he was not dressed like them nor did he rest like them so he won by a few days.

Kids know if they are bring treated differently than they truly are. And you will snap back to who you are.

We have to come to a realization several times that we really are a daughter of God.

It is important to realize that you have so much ahead of you. Even at any age. And you can be free.

We believe that we are daughters of God, but believing is not enough until it is represented in our actions. It does happen that we get really low until we realize what we believe. And we cannot give that to our children, they need to have that low to learn who they are.

When children are tested or play a game, do not focus their attention on the result or how much was wrong. Rather ask if they had fun or what they learned.

In YW I had a goal of getting up 14 consequetive days being in a good mood.
Make it a choice to be happy, we can do this.

You do not have to do what is truly impossible, but you need to do your best.

My teacher said in 8th grade when I told him I could not do a thing he said, "where there is a will there is a way."

We do not need to have our ducks in a row to be happy.

You can feel sorry for your self for five minutes today, but then you have to be "gangtsa".

We might have alot of stuff that is bad, but think of all of the good things that we have.

Recognize, in action, what we claim to believe, do not apologize or be nagative about it.

Life is to be enjoyed not endured.

Brain dump

(Nothing from sacrament mtg. Although, there are things that I would like to remember)

It was decided what we would do and become. Foreordination. We had gifts and talents that needed to be decided.

Ordination is not the fufilment, but the choice must still be made.

We needed physical bodies to get and give blessing by laying on of hands.

First estate denotes there are future estates.

It makes sense that kingdoms we recieve will be the Earth, as it is an Estate.

Estate is a home.

Jesus was preordained then to be our Savior.

(Preordination is largely due to our progression to this point)

Lucifer uses truth in your lies. And uses the advantage that we see things in a finite world. Only seeing a part and not the whole a thing could be a law or rule to that little bit. Like a rule one can say it is the truth and it will be for a billion years.

The atonement is personal, it is not justice or a thing that is black and white or right or wrong.

There is a manipulation of perspective with Lucifer plan when he said that none shall fail to return, but Jesus' plan would not promise all would choose right. But, that missed the point.

That battle is not a was it is over, it is still fought daily.

I need to know the difference between lucifer's plan and the atonement and ressurrection... so, everyone who was born will be resurrected. But, I get it now! Very few even being redeemed will be able to progress forever.

We tend to look elsewhere for neat things to fo, and miss what we do have, like Seattle Space Needle.

Story of commenting how blessed they were.

Lesson on gratitude.

One comment wat peculiar in that they were thankful for running water, but really try living without it, and it was commented that we flush better water in our toilets than others have for drinking water.

Spirit of gratitude engenders a spirit of freindliness and getting along and ofcourse, optimism.

God is where ever men could go.

No one can look at the world, especially from outer space,  and can say there is no God.

When we are thankful, we will naturally be thankful for other things that we may not recognize as blessings.

Make sure you thank God. Paying tithing is a great way to show thanksgiving and love.

It is interesting to hear her, not because of the words he says but this comment: ",I cannot lie to him, he might not like what I have to say but I cannot change it."