Grand Witnesses
Greetings Earth Dwellers -
It has been another wonderful week of travel and adventure. It has been a long time since I have not had anyone ringing my doorbell or going out with tricksters for Halloween. I did see a large number of witches though. In fact, that is probably the only costume style I did see. They don't the the tricksters come to hotel rooms.
So, I spent my evening just relaxing and pondering. It had already been a long day in the first place. Which leads me right into the thoughts of this week.
2 Nephi 31:14-16
I love these verses in so many ways.
First - The voice of the Son came unto him.
Second - The voice of the Father was heard.
Third - He testifies of what he learned.
Those are the top things. I pondered the number of times I have had the same type of communications. I was give reason to question if I am listening enough to hear their voices. I know beyond any reason of doubt in my heart that they do speak to us. I have heard their whispering. I have felt their love and concern. I witness that they are real and want to be part of our lives.
Now just a couple of other things. This afternoon in Sacrament meeting one of the small nursery age children was escorted to the podium to bear her testimony. Her mother stood to the side and this small child bore a strong and powerful message. "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." That was it. What power. I received confirmation that it "witnessing" unto the father our willingness comes in the small and simple things, not always the big things. She stood up. That was her witness. How much more do we need to do. Just showing people that we are living, breathing, and being His commandments is all it takes.
That is my pondering message for the week. I hope you are able to review these verses and get something out of them as well.
Our conference message was from Elder Oaks on the Proclamation. It is such a great orator. As I pondered, read, and listened to this message this week the thing that sticks out to me was a conversation I had a few weeks ago about a person who wanted all the answers. They were not willing to stand or move forward with covenants until they had the answers. Their parents had been seals and then divorced. They wanted to know the answer as to what happens to them. I have been thinking about this situation and similar ones over the past few weeks. Then I get to Elder Oaks talk.
The phrase that stood out to me the most, "Salvation is a individual matter. Exaltation is a family matter." How true this is. Before we can worry about our family, friends, neighbors or what not, we must first worry about ourselves. It goes back to that whole Mote and Beam concept. We have to clean our vessels before we can clean other.
Then what? Do we just go in and make our families perfect? I doubt it. Agency still plays a great role in all that we do individually. However, once we are striving to live the gospel, repenting, tweaking, changing and such on a daily basis, we are able to see what to help, love, sustain, support and be an example to our families. It is that influence of enduring to the end, lifting one another burdens, and more that make our families who they are.
On with the week -
It has been pretty much the same around here. Everyone is in school, studying something, working, eating, doing, or sleeping. We are all just busy.
The Queen made a point to plan out or start planning out vacation time for next year. She is thinking of the holidays, keeping me on my toes, and being all around amazing.
The Professor continues to ponder her path of graduate studies. New visions were shared with her this week and just has her thinking even more.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo are take it one day at a time. School is good. Institute and reliance classes are moving forward. Ehl-Bo got transferred to a local store instead of spending hours each week driving. That will be a stress reliever during the winter months.
We dropped in on Puddin and Lady Hawkins yesterday morning. It was fun to get them up and going. After we visited, worked, and dined, we feel like they are one step or two closer to being settled in to their little home. I sure there is more to do, but it comes with time. They are busy, busy, busy. I would say we woke them up, but that would be a lie. They had been up and good, just not wanting to be going as much I am sure.
Now we start another week. The conference talk to read is from Elder Ballard. He is next in line of authority. I hope you enjoy it. I would love to hear your thoughts on any of them thus far.
Love you all -
Cheerios
It has been another wonderful week of travel and adventure. It has been a long time since I have not had anyone ringing my doorbell or going out with tricksters for Halloween. I did see a large number of witches though. In fact, that is probably the only costume style I did see. They don't the the tricksters come to hotel rooms.
So, I spent my evening just relaxing and pondering. It had already been a long day in the first place. Which leads me right into the thoughts of this week.
2 Nephi 31:14-16
I love these verses in so many ways.
First - The voice of the Son came unto him.
Second - The voice of the Father was heard.
Third - He testifies of what he learned.
Those are the top things. I pondered the number of times I have had the same type of communications. I was give reason to question if I am listening enough to hear their voices. I know beyond any reason of doubt in my heart that they do speak to us. I have heard their whispering. I have felt their love and concern. I witness that they are real and want to be part of our lives.
Now just a couple of other things. This afternoon in Sacrament meeting one of the small nursery age children was escorted to the podium to bear her testimony. Her mother stood to the side and this small child bore a strong and powerful message. "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." That was it. What power. I received confirmation that it "witnessing" unto the father our willingness comes in the small and simple things, not always the big things. She stood up. That was her witness. How much more do we need to do. Just showing people that we are living, breathing, and being His commandments is all it takes.
That is my pondering message for the week. I hope you are able to review these verses and get something out of them as well.
Our conference message was from Elder Oaks on the Proclamation. It is such a great orator. As I pondered, read, and listened to this message this week the thing that sticks out to me was a conversation I had a few weeks ago about a person who wanted all the answers. They were not willing to stand or move forward with covenants until they had the answers. Their parents had been seals and then divorced. They wanted to know the answer as to what happens to them. I have been thinking about this situation and similar ones over the past few weeks. Then I get to Elder Oaks talk.
The phrase that stood out to me the most, "Salvation is a individual matter. Exaltation is a family matter." How true this is. Before we can worry about our family, friends, neighbors or what not, we must first worry about ourselves. It goes back to that whole Mote and Beam concept. We have to clean our vessels before we can clean other.
Then what? Do we just go in and make our families perfect? I doubt it. Agency still plays a great role in all that we do individually. However, once we are striving to live the gospel, repenting, tweaking, changing and such on a daily basis, we are able to see what to help, love, sustain, support and be an example to our families. It is that influence of enduring to the end, lifting one another burdens, and more that make our families who they are.
On with the week -
It has been pretty much the same around here. Everyone is in school, studying something, working, eating, doing, or sleeping. We are all just busy.
The Queen made a point to plan out or start planning out vacation time for next year. She is thinking of the holidays, keeping me on my toes, and being all around amazing.
The Professor continues to ponder her path of graduate studies. New visions were shared with her this week and just has her thinking even more.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo are take it one day at a time. School is good. Institute and reliance classes are moving forward. Ehl-Bo got transferred to a local store instead of spending hours each week driving. That will be a stress reliever during the winter months.
We dropped in on Puddin and Lady Hawkins yesterday morning. It was fun to get them up and going. After we visited, worked, and dined, we feel like they are one step or two closer to being settled in to their little home. I sure there is more to do, but it comes with time. They are busy, busy, busy. I would say we woke them up, but that would be a lie. They had been up and good, just not wanting to be going as much I am sure.
Now we start another week. The conference talk to read is from Elder Ballard. He is next in line of authority. I hope you enjoy it. I would love to hear your thoughts on any of them thus far.
Love you all -
Cheerios
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