tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67721504532832338472023-11-16T10:01:44.922-08:00The Threshing Floorldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-15663967100685751872014-09-11T10:13:00.002-07:002014-09-11T10:13:42.075-07:00Prepare our Meeting for Investigators<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“In an
effort to keep our work closely linked to the Savior’s ministry, let me suggest
some things all of us might do to keep Christ and His Atonement in the
forefront of members’ and investigators’ consciousness. Encourage in every way
possible more spiritual Church meetings, especially sacrament meetings. One of
the great fears missionaries have at least in some locations is taking their
investigators to church. And indeed the investigators deserve to feel essentially
the same spirit in sacrament meeting that they feel when being taught by the
missionaries.” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Ensign, March 2001)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-20531292164405190182014-08-21T09:35:00.001-07:002014-08-21T09:35:17.901-07:00By Small Means Great Things are Brought to Pass<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZLkqHFahItPIj0-BqBrFTwn-WWfORmRrODHJ9qbAR2QvUFr6LK8fqLPpy6QMIQINnVPAsLH3VmCnIMIDe1qOHHUice2dczDHfJSR5NmtuNYF_MCH_p7Fvemm0gTLeNz1UtLK0Q7Wp5Y/s1600/Minuteman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZLkqHFahItPIj0-BqBrFTwn-WWfORmRrODHJ9qbAR2QvUFr6LK8fqLPpy6QMIQINnVPAsLH3VmCnIMIDe1qOHHUice2dczDHfJSR5NmtuNYF_MCH_p7Fvemm0gTLeNz1UtLK0Q7Wp5Y/s1600/Minuteman.jpg" height="149" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
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Daniel Chester French's statue, Minute Man, adjacent to the
North Bridge, the historical site in the Battle of Concord, the first day of
battle in the American War of Independence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">"The thunderbolt
falls on an inch of ground, but the light of it fills the horizon."</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Ralph Waldo Emerson's address at the 1875 dedication of French's Minuteman statue alluding
to how the local resistance to the King's troops had far-reaching effects. How far has the First Vision, or the actions in our own lives reached?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-74807313544782917162014-08-21T09:23:00.001-07:002014-08-21T09:23:34.443-07:00It's What's Inside that Counts<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us."</span></div>
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By Henry Stanley Haskins (1875-1957)
from his anonymously published Meditations in Wall Street (New York: William
Morrow & Co., 1940) p. 131.<o:p></o:p></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-33471639256194290232014-05-09T11:25:00.001-07:002014-05-09T11:25:29.253-07:00Its a Good Thing There Wasnt Anybody Around to Help the Pilgrims<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"They landed in a forbidding wilderness. No Federal Housing,
so they went to work and built their own. No Free Stamp Program, so they raised
what food they ate, and when they didn't raise enough, went without. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">No Free Schools, so mothers taught their children. No
Recreational Programs, they were too busy working. No anti-draft riots, everyone
was expected to share in the protection of his country. No Social Security, no
security at all, except what each provided for himself. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But there were compensations. No rioters demanding something
for nothing. No unwashed students telling their mothers what to teach. No
wasteful bureaucrats paying themselves out of the workers production. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Nothing, really, for the Pilgrims but hard work and a lot of
it. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Did it pay off? </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Our standard of living proves it" (Christian Economics, Nov.
1972, p. 25).</span></div>
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ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-51866873805130608342014-05-09T11:16:00.001-07:002014-05-09T11:16:50.810-07:00Gullible Gulls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk60000" node="60000" paranum="6" wrapper="0">“In </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60001" node="60001" paranum="6" wrapper="1">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60002" node="60002" paranum="6" wrapper="2">friendly </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60003" node="60003" paranum="6" wrapper="3">neighbor </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60004" node="60004" paranum="6" wrapper="4">city </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60005" node="60005" paranum="6" wrapper="5">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60006" node="60006" paranum="6" wrapper="6">St. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60007" node="60007" paranum="6" wrapper="7">Augustine </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60008" node="60008" paranum="6" wrapper="8">great </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60009" node="60009" paranum="6" wrapper="9">flocks </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60010" node="60010" paranum="6" wrapper="10">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60011" node="60011" paranum="6" wrapper="11">sea </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60012" node="60012" paranum="6" wrapper="12">gulls </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60013" node="60013" paranum="6" wrapper="13">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60014" node="60014" paranum="6" wrapper="14">starving </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60015" node="60015" paranum="6" wrapper="15">amid </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60016" node="60016" paranum="6" wrapper="16">plenty. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60017" node="60017" paranum="6" wrapper="17">Fishing </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60018" node="60018" paranum="6" wrapper="18">is </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60019" node="60019" paranum="6" wrapper="19">still </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60020" node="60020" paranum="6" wrapper="20">good, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60021" node="60021" paranum="6" wrapper="21">but </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60022" node="60022" paranum="6" wrapper="22">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60023" node="60023" paranum="6" wrapper="23">gulls </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60024" node="60024" paranum="6" wrapper="24">don’t </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60025" node="60025" paranum="6" wrapper="25">know </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60026" node="60026" paranum="6" wrapper="26">how </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60027" node="60027" paranum="6" wrapper="27">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60028" node="60028" paranum="6" wrapper="28">fish. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60029" node="60029" paranum="6" wrapper="29">For </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60030" node="60030" paranum="6" wrapper="30">generations </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60031" node="60031" paranum="6" wrapper="31">they </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60032" node="60032" paranum="6" wrapper="32">have </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60033" node="60033" paranum="6" wrapper="33">depended </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60034" node="60034" paranum="6" wrapper="34">on </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60035" node="60035" paranum="6" wrapper="35">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60036" node="60036" paranum="6" wrapper="36">shrimp </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60037" node="60037" paranum="6" wrapper="37">fleet </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60038" node="60038" paranum="6" wrapper="38">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60039" node="60039" paranum="6" wrapper="39">toss </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60040" node="60040" paranum="6" wrapper="40">them </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60041" node="60041" paranum="6" wrapper="41">scraps </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60042" node="60042" paranum="6" wrapper="42">from </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60043" node="60043" paranum="6" wrapper="43">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60044" node="60044" paranum="6" wrapper="44">nets. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60045" node="60045" paranum="6" wrapper="45">Now </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60046" node="60046" paranum="6" wrapper="46">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60047" node="60047" paranum="6" wrapper="47">fleet </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60048" node="60048" paranum="6" wrapper="48">has </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60049" node="60049" paranum="6" wrapper="49">moved. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk60050" node="60050" paranum="6" wrapper="50">… </span></span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70000" node="70000" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="0">The </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70001" node="70001" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="1">shrimpers </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70002" node="70002" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="2">had </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70003" node="70003" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="3">created </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70004" node="70004" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="4">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70005" node="70005" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="5">Welfare </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70006" node="70006" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="6">State </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70007" node="70007" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="7">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70008" node="70008" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="8">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70009" node="70009" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="9">… </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70010" node="70010" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="10">sea </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70011" node="70011" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="11">gulls. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70012" node="70012" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="12">The </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70013" node="70013" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="13">big </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70014" node="70014" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="14">birds </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70015" node="70015" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="15">never </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70016" node="70016" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="16">bothered </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70017" node="70017" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="17">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70018" node="70018" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="18">learn </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70019" node="70019" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="19">how </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70020" node="70020" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="20">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70021" node="70021" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="21">fish </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70022" node="70022" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="22">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70023" node="70023" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="23">themselves </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70024" node="70024" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="24">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70025" node="70025" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="25">they </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70026" node="70026" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="26">never </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70027" node="70027" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="27">taught </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70028" node="70028" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="28">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70029" node="70029" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="29">children </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70030" node="70030" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="30">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70031" node="70031" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="31">fish. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70032" node="70032" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="32">Instead </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70033" node="70033" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="33">they </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70034" node="70034" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="34">led </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70035" node="70035" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="35">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70036" node="70036" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="36">little </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70037" node="70037" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="37">ones </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70038" node="70038" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="38">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70039" node="70039" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="39">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70040" node="70040" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="40">shrimp </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk70041" node="70041" paranum="7" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="41">nets. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80000" node="80000" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="0">Now </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80001" node="80001" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="1">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80002" node="80002" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="2">sea </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80003" node="80003" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="3">gulls, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80004" node="80004" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="4">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80005" node="80005" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="5">fine </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80006" node="80006" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="6">free </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80007" node="80007" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="7">birds </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80008" node="80008" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="8">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80009" node="80009" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="9">almost </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80010" node="80010" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="10">symbolize </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80011" node="80011" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="11">liberty </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80012" node="80012" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="12">itself, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80013" node="80013" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="13">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80014" node="80014" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="14">starving </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80015" node="80015" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="15">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80016" node="80016" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="16">death </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80017" node="80017" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="17">because </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80018" node="80018" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="18">they </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80019" node="80019" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="19">gave </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80020" node="80020" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="20">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80021" node="80021" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="21">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80022" node="80022" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="22">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80023" node="80023" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="23">‘something </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80024" node="80024" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="24">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80025" node="80025" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="25">nothing’ </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80026" node="80026" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="26">lure! </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80027" node="80027" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="27">They </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80028" node="80028" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="28">sacrificed </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80029" node="80029" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="29">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80030" node="80030" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="30">independence </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80031" node="80031" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="31">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80032" node="80032" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="32">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk80033" node="80033" paranum="8" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="33">handout. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90000" node="90000" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="0">A </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90001" node="90001" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="1">lot </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90002" node="90002" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="2">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90003" node="90003" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="3">people </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90004" node="90004" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="4">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90005" node="90005" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="5">like </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90006" node="90006" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="6">that, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90007" node="90007" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="7">too. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90008" node="90008" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="8">They </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90009" node="90009" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="9">see </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90010" node="90010" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="10">nothing </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90011" node="90011" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="11">wrong </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90012" node="90012" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="12">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90013" node="90013" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="13">picking </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90014" node="90014" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="14">delectable </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90015" node="90015" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="15">scraps </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90016" node="90016" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="16">from </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90017" node="90017" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="17">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90018" node="90018" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="18">tax </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90019" node="90019" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="19">nets </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90020" node="90020" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="20">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90021" node="90021" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="21">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90022" node="90022" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="22">U.S. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90023" node="90023" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="23">Government’s </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90024" node="90024" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="24">‘shrimp </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90025" node="90025" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="25">fleet.’ </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90026" node="90026" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="26">But </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90027" node="90027" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="27">what </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90028" node="90028" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="28">will </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90029" node="90029" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="29">happen </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90030" node="90030" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="30">when </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90031" node="90031" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="31">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90032" node="90032" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="32">Government </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90033" node="90033" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="33">runs </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90034" node="90034" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="34">out </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90035" node="90035" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="35">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90036" node="90036" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="36">goods? </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90037" node="90037" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="37">What </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90038" node="90038" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="38">about </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90039" node="90039" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="39">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90040" node="90040" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="40">children </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90041" node="90041" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="41">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90042" node="90042" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="42">generations </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90043" node="90043" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="43">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk90044" node="90044" paranum="9" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="44">come? </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100000" node="100000" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="0">Let’s </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100001" node="100001" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="1">not </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100002" node="100002" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="2">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100003" node="100003" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="3">gullible </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100004" node="100004" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="4">gulls. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100005" node="100005" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="5">We </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100006" node="100006" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="6">… </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100007" node="100007" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="7">must </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100008" node="100008" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="8">preserve </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100009" node="100009" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="9">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100010" node="100010" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="10">talents </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100011" node="100011" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="11">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100012" node="100012" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="12">self-sufficiency, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100013" node="100013" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="13">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100014" node="100014" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="14">genius </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100015" node="100015" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="15">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100016" node="100016" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="16">creating </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100017" node="100017" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="17">things </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100018" node="100018" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="18">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100019" node="100019" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="19">ourselves, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100020" node="100020" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="20">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100021" node="100021" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="21">sense </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100022" node="100022" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="22">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100023" node="100023" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="23">thrift </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100024" node="100024" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="24">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100025" node="100025" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="25">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100026" node="100026" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="26">true </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100027" node="100027" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="27">love </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100028" node="100028" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="28">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100029" node="100029" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="29">independence.” </span><span class="chunk hl-id-66161659" id="chunk100030" node="100030" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="30">(“Fable </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100031" node="100031" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="31">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100032" node="100032" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="32">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100033" node="100033" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="33">Gullible </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100034" node="100034" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="34">Gull,” </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk100035" node="100035" paranum="10" wrapper="35">Reader’s </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100036" node="100036" paranum="10" wrapper="36">Digest,</span></i><span class="chunk" id="chunk100037" node="100037" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="37"> Oct. </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100038" node="100038" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="38">1950, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk100039" node="100039" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="39">p. </span><span class="chunk hl-id-66161659 hl-id-64194767" id="chunk100040" node="100040" paranum="10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" wrapper="40">32 as told by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">President Marion G. Romney, The Celestial Nature of Self-reliance, Ensign, November 1982, p.91)</span></div>
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"Another fallacy is to believe that the choice to accept or not accept the counsel of prophets is no more than deciding whether to accept good advice and gain its benefits or to stay where we are. But<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"> the choice not to take prophetic counsel changes the very ground upon which we stand</span>. It becomes more dangerous. The failure to take prophetic counsel lessens our power to take inspired counsel in the future. The best time to have decided to help Noah build the ark was the first time he asked. Each time he asked after that, each failure to respond would have lessened sensitivity to the Spirit. And so each time his request would have seemed more foolish, until the rain came. And then it was too late. Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm’s way. <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety</span></span>. Along the path, I have found that the way had been prepared for me and the rough places made smooth. God led me to safety along a path which was prepared with loving care, sometimes prepared long before... An example from Church history is that of <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Reddick Newton Allred</span></span>. He was one of the rescue party sent out by Brigham Young to bring in the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies. When a terrible storm hit, Captain Grant, captain of the rescue party, decided to leave some of the wagons by the Sweetwater River as he pressed ahead to find the handcart companies. With the blizzards howling and the weather becoming life-threatening, two of the men left behind at the Sweetwater decided that it was foolish to stay. They thought that either the handcart companies had wintered over somewhere or had perished. They decided to return to the Salt Lake Valley and tried to persuade everyone else to do the same. Reddick Allred refused to budge. Brigham had sent them out and his priesthood leader had told him to wait there. The others took several wagons, all filled with needed supplies, and started back. Even more tragic, each wagon they met coming out from Salt Lake they turned back as well. They turned back 77 wagons, returning all the way to Little Mountain, where President Young learned what was happening and turned them around again. When the Willie Company was finally found, and had made that heartrending pull up and over Rocky Ridge, it was Reddick Allred and his wagons that waited for them. (See Rebecca Bartholomew and Leonard J. Arrington, <i>Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies</i> [1992], 29, 33–34.)" (then Elder Henry B. Eyring, CR., April, 1997).</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“A resistance to anything that limits one’s conduct has
almost taken over society. Our whole social order could self-destruct over the
obsession with <b><i>freedom disconnected from responsibility</i></b>, where <b><i>choice
is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences</i></b>” </span>[President Boyd
K. Packer, Ensign, May 1996.]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Elder Richard G. Scott, To Live
Well, April 21, 2011, BYU Spring 2011 Commencement<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sixth, smile.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> I don’t need to teach you that. Just being on this campus teaches the
importance of knowing how to smile and enjoy life. I don’t mean by that that
you need to be cracking jokes every day. But a good joke now and then is an
escape valve. It is not all that bad. You will soon learn that everybody has
problems and nobody wants to hear about yours. Put those things aside and smile.
Have a good sense of humor as the prophets do. I wish I could tell you some of
the things that we talk about. Not flippant things, not things that are
inappropriate—just a good sense of humor. Today we are a little more serious
than usual, but I will tell you a secret of how to wake up in the morning with
a smile on your face no matter how you feel. Now I’ll have to whisper, because
this is a secret. If you want to wake up in the morning guaranteed to have a
smile on your face, go to bed with a coat hanger in your mouth. Remember, a
good sense of humor helps you greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Seventh, don’t complain.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Life isn’t always fair. That’s a fact. But it’s always charged with
marvelous opportunities if you know how to find them. I remember once when I
was working as hard as I knew how. I happened to be working for a man who took
all of the ideas and suggestions and work that I did and passed them on to his
superior as though they were his own suggestions. For a while I was really
upset about that. As I pondered it, a thought came to me, and I decided from
then on I would write reports to him of everything that I was doing or trying
to do, and I sent a copy to his boss. He didn’t like that, but it worked
beautifully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We
again warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against
our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it. The
same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in
other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America. The
proponents thereof are seeking to undermine our own form of government and to
set up instead one of the forms of dictatorships now flourishing in other
lands. These revolutionists are using a technique that is as old as the
human race - - a fervid but false solicitude for the unfortunate over whom they
thus gain mastery and then enslave them." [Elder J. Reuben Clark, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Conference
Report, Apr. 1942, 88-97]</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-26772767382688976032013-10-30T10:10:00.000-07:002013-10-30T10:10:33.784-07:00Great Transfer Board in the Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We do not control what I
call ‘the great transfer board in the sky.’ The inconveniences that are
sometimes associated with release from our labors here are necessary in order
to accelerate the work there. Heavenly Father can’t do His work there, with 10
times more people than we have on this planet, without on occasion taking some
of the very best sisters and brothers from among us. The conditions of
termination here, painful though they are, are a part of the conditions of
acceleration there. Thus we are back to faith in the timing of God, and to our
need to be able to say ‘Thy <span class="emphasis1">timing</span> be done,’ even
when we do not fully understand it” (Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, July 2002).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-10425663796587654912013-10-28T10:09:00.002-07:002013-10-28T10:10:39.256-07:00God is in the Details<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Recall the new star that announced the birth at Bethlehem? It was in its precise orbit long before it so shone. We are likewise placed in human orbits to illuminate. Divine correlation functions not only in the cosmos but on this planet, too. After all, the Book of Mormon plates were not buried in Belgium, only to have Joseph Smith born centuries later in distant Bombay....God, who oversees the interlacings of galaxies, stars, and worlds, asks us to confess His hand in our personal lives, too. Have we not been reassured about the fall of one sparrow and that the very hairs of our heads are numbered?. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">God is in the details!</span></b> Just as the Lord knows all of His vast creations, He also knows and loves each in any crowd—indeed, He knows and loves each and all of mankind!...Of course we cannot fully comprehend all this <i>right now!</i> Of
course we cannot know the meaning of all things <i>right now.</i> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>But we can
know, <i>right now,</i> that God knows us and loves us individually!</b></span>" (<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Elder
Neal A. Maxwell, Encircled in the Arms of His Love, Ensign, November 2002, p.16)</span></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-9438912540382837582013-10-14T12:51:00.001-07:002013-10-14T12:51:07.145-07:00Get it First Hand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"There is an increase
in the attendance of the people at meetings. There is nothing that causes the
people to grow more in the Gospel than attending their meetings. There is
nothing that is more calculated to cause the spirit of the Gospel to dry up,
figuratively speaking, than to stay away from our meetings. When we are in a
meeting we partake of the spirit of that meeting. When we are absent from it
and somebody tells us of the wonderful spirit that was present and what was
accomplished by being there to partake of it, we cannot appreciate those
things. It is very much like the man who was hungry and someone told him of a fine
dinner, but he did not appreciate that dinner. We have to eat for ourselves, we
have to live for ourselves, we have to be in the line of our duty in order to
partake of the Spirit of the Lord, if the Spirit of the Lord is manifest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I call to mind that a
brother who lost his standing as an apostle was a very, very poor attendant at
the meetings of the Council of the Twelve, other matters occupied his
attention. Francis M. Lyman had to come from Tooele the night before our
meeting and spend one night here and all day in order to be at the meetings of
the Presidency and Apostles which lasted two or three hours, but he never
missed one of them. I said to him one day: 'It is remarkable to me that
you are so prompt and always present at our meetings.' He said: '<i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>I do not want to miss any inspiration from
the Lord; I do not want the Spirit of the Lord to come to me second hand. I
want to partake of it, and to feel it, and to realize it, and to know it for
myself</b></span>'</i>" (<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">President Heber J. Grant, CR, October 1934, p.122-123).</span></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-19207290038840800662013-09-27T09:03:00.005-07:002013-09-27T09:03:39.036-07:00Do Your Homework<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Years ago I was asked to chair a committee of
faculty from Brigham Young University and other schools with this question to
study: What should be the future of higher education in the Church? Elder Neal
A. Maxwell was then the commissioner of education. I told him I didn't think I
could fulfill the assignment without the help of heaven. He asked if I would
like a blessing. I've forgotten how it was arranged that I would see Elder
Alvin R. Dyer, but that was especially pleasant for me, since I had been a priest
once in a ward where he was the bishop, the president of my quorum. He listened
sympathetically to my story, put his hands on my head, and gave me a blessing
that included words like this as a promise: "In this assignment, and in
many others which will come to you, your mind will be guided in channels toward
the truth." That blessing gave me confidence, maybe too much confidence.
The committee began its work. And after months of what seemed to me futile
effort, I felt some desperation, much as you do when heaven seems to withhold
its help in a task you know matters and is beyond you. I somehow managed to
arrange another interview. This one was with President Harold B. Lee. He
received me in a kindly way. In my anxiety, I soon blurted out my question:
"<b><span style="color: #990000;">President Lee, how do I get
revelation</span></b>?" He smiled. I am glad he didn't laugh, since it was an odd
question to ask. But he answered my question with a story. It was essentially
this. He said that during World War II he had been part of a group studying the
question "What should the Church be doing for its members in the military
service?" He said they conducted interviews at bases up and down the
country. They had data gathered. They had the data analyzed. They went back for
more interviews. But still, no plan emerged. Then he gave me the lesson, which
I now give to you, in about these words: "Hal, when we had done all we
knew how to do, when we had our backs to the wall, then God gave us the
revelation. <b><span style="color: #990000;">Hal, if you want to get
revelation, do your homework</span></b>." (see </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">D&C 9:3-10)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> [From </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elder Henry B.
Eyring</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
To Draw Closer to God: A Collection of Discourses, p.91-103,105]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important
than a person to be loved.” (President Thomas S. Monson, CR. October 2008)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-7482440297565913012013-09-17T09:41:00.003-07:002013-09-17T09:41:48.917-07:00Will it be Enough?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"A few years ago, Bishop Stanley Smoot was interviewed by President Spencer W. Kimball. President Kimball asked, 'How often do you have family prayer?' Bishop Smoot answered, 'We try to have family prayer twice a day, but we average about once.' President Kimball answered, 'In the past, having family prayer once a day may have been all right. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>But in the future it will not be enough if we are going to save our families</b></span>.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wonder if having <span style="color: blue;"><b>casual and infrequent</b></span> family home evening will be enough in the future to fortify our children with sufficient moral strength. In the future, <span style="color: blue;"><b>infrequent</b></span> family scripture study may be inadequate to arm our children with the virtue necessary to withstand the moral decay of the environment in which they will live. Where in the world will the children learn chastity, integrity, honesty, and basic human decency if not at home? These values will, of course, be reinforced at church, but parental teaching is <span style="color: blue;"><b>more constant</b></span>." (Elder James E. Faust, The Greatest Challenge in the World, Good Parenting, Ensign, November 1990, p.32)</span>ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-33063854273209234622013-09-12T09:24:00.001-07:002013-09-12T09:24:21.333-07:00One by One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Just go get one, who will go get one, who will go get one, who will go get one. That’s how you establish the kingdom.” Elder David A. Bednar, England 2011</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hMhVE36M0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hMhVE36M0</a>ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-70088959229767013932013-09-12T09:15:00.000-07:002013-09-12T09:18:47.366-07:00The Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"<b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">The
ultimate end</span></b> of all activity in the Church is that a man and his wife and their
children might be happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the
gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Every
law and principle and power, every belief, every ordinance and ordination,
every covenant, every sermon and every <span style="color: #0d0e00;">sacrament,</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> every counsel
and correction, the sealing, the calls, the releases, the service—all these
have as their <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"><b>ultimate purpose</b></span> the perfection of the individual and the family,
for the Lord has said, 'This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the i</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">mmortality</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and eternal
life of man.'...</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have the
power of the priesthood directly from the Lord to protect your home. There will
be times when all that stands as a shield between your family and the
adversary’s mischief will be that power. You will receive direction from the
Lord by way of the gift of the Holy Ghost</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">." (</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Elder Boyd K. Packer, The Power of the Priesthood, Ensign, May 2010"</span></span></blockquote>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-66126934502068494202013-09-03T08:42:00.000-07:002013-09-03T08:43:15.819-07:00Never Stop Asking THinking, Pondering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The proper 'why' questions will lead us to the
proper 'who,' 'what,' 'when,' 'where,' and 'how' decisions</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">… Unfortunately, we sometimes don’t seek revelation or answers from the scriptures or the
handbooks because we think we know the answers already. Brothers and
sisters, as good as our previous
experience may be,<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering,
we can thwart the revelations of the Spirit</b></span>. Remember, it was the questions
young Joseph asked that opened the door for the restoration of all things. We
can block the growth and knowledge our Heavenly Father intends for us. How
often has the Holy Spirit tried to tell us something we needed to know but
couldn’t get past the massive iron gate of what we thought we already knew?" [</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">President Dieter F.
Uchtdorf, “Acting on the Truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”, WWLeadership,
February 2012]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Teaching
is the best way to learn, I'm still convinced of that; by passing
on our knowledge we continue to discover and learn. Moreover, this
activity forces us each time to a new formulation of what we want to
express, forces us to new [attempts], [a] constant search of new methods.
The constant links with youth helps us to always have a youthful
outlook, make us able to surprise ourselves constantly.."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(Erno
Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube, London speech,1/31/81)</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-88078297575558512302013-08-09T10:37:00.001-07:002013-08-09T10:47:35.459-07:00Making Ordinary People Winners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The task of the excellent teacher
is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough
problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary
people. That, after all, is the overwhelming purpose of education. Yet historically,
in most of the periods emphasizing excellence education has reverted to
selecting winners rather than creating them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(K. Patricia Cross, <span lang="EN">scholar of educational research</span>)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-41923200196027402052013-06-24T16:13:00.001-07:002013-08-09T10:47:09.977-07:00We Must Prove Ourselves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> “President
Brigham Young explained that our families are not yet ours. The Lord has
committed them to us to see how we will treat them. Only if we are faithful
will they be given to us forever. What we do on earth determines whether or not
we will be worthy to become heavenly parents (see chapter 2, Our Heavenly
Family).” </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Gospel Principles, p.231</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-3253213380578214912013-05-15T12:44:00.003-07:002013-05-15T12:45:54.820-07:00Don't drift through life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.</span>ldprighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666835119071522637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772150453283233847.post-12351039221106153332013-04-17T14:20:00.001-07:002013-04-17T14:21:45.159-07:00Life is like an old time railway journey<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste
a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that
most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just
like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual
toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like
an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and
jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts
of speed. <span style="color: red;"><b>The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride</b></span>.” (Jenkins
Lloyd Jones, <i>Deseret News</i>, 12 June
1973)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever
wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel.
Therefore <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in
neutralizing much of the priesthood</span></b>. He has reduced them to sleeping giants… The
Prophet Joseph Smith declared it will be the elders of Israel who will step
forward to help save the Constitution, not the Church. And have we elders been
warned? Yes, we have. And have we elders been given the guide lines? Yes
indeed, we have. And besides, if the Church should ever inaugurate a program,
who do you think would be in the forefront to get it moving? It would not be
those who were sitting on the sidelines prior to that time or those who were
appeasing the enemy. It would be those choice spirits who, not waiting to be ‘commanded
in all things,’ used their own free will, the counsel of the prophets and the
Spirit of the Lord as guidelines and who entered the battle ‘in a good cause’
and brought to pass much righteousness in freedom's cause. Brethren, if we had
done our homework and were faithful, we could step forward at this time and
help save this country. The fact that most of us are unprepared to do it is an
indictment we will have to bear. The longer we wait, the heavier the chains,
the deeper the blood, the more the persecution and the less we can carry out
our God-given mandate and world-wide mission. The war in heaven is raging on
earth today. Are you being neutralized in the battle?”</span> (<b>Elder Ezra Taft Benson</b>, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not Commanded in All Things</span>, CR., April 1965,
p.123-125)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Latter-day Saints should be thoroughly loyal to the course
of life laid out in the Gospel plan. A milk-and-water allegiance kills; while a
passionate devotion gives life and soul to any cause and its adherents. The
troubles of the world may largely be laid at the doors of those who are neither
hot nor cold; who always follow the line of least resistance; whose timid
hearts flutter at taking sides for truth. As in the great Council in the
heavens, so in the Church of Christ on earth,<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <b>there can be no neutrality</b></span>. We
are, or we are not, on the side of the Lord. An unrelenting faith, contemptuous
of all compromise, will lead the Church and every member of it, to triumph and
the achievement of our high destiny”</span> (<b>Elder
John A. Widtsoe</b>, CR., April 1941, p.117).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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