June 2012
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Our Savior's love. →
immerse-myself:
God does not hate Nabisco for posting a photo of a gay pride Oreo cookie. God does not hate any single person that is a part of the LGBT community.
There is only one God and that same God loves every single person, being, and soul. In fact, He loves everyone perfectly, completely, indefinitely, and infinitely. God cannot love any single person that has lived, lives now, or will...
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ldsdiary:
I’m never letting go of the iron rod. I better not even dare.
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Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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the-girl-named-tyler:
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth” - Mahatma Ghandi
That quote has helped me out so much lately. I really am a minority of one when it comes to the church and my family/friends.
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Desire
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
Though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think...
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“Be one who nurtures and who builds. Be one who has an understanding and a...”
– Marvin J Ashton (via soclingtowhatyouknow) (This is the Christlike person I’m trying to become.)
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Responses to my post about forgiving when it’s hard.
We studied “Mountains to Climb” yesterday in RS and this really stuck out to me. “I was stunned to learn that another woman had forgiven a person who had wronged her for years. I was surprised and asked her why she had chosen to forgive and forget so many years of spiteful abuse. She said quietly, “It was the hardest thing I have ever...
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“There will be times when you will face challenges which might jeopardize your...”
– Thomas S Monson (via myjoyisfull)
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Just an FYI →
millstonearoundmyneck:
A lot has been bothering me lately, one of which consists of people claiming to be members of “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” Do you not see what is incorrect here? The capitalization in the “D” in “Latter-Day.” People do not realize that this is the spelling for the Mormon polygamist sects (such as FLDS) and not for us. Whenever I read a post that...
symmetrical-conscience-deactiva asked: Where did you get your "I Believe" buttton? I would like to put one on my blog!
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I want to forgive him.
I’m usually not someone who can hold a grudge, but there have been a few exceptions. I’ve been working really hard at getting past them, especially since President Uchtdorf’s April General Conference talk The Merciful Obtain Mercy (the Stop it! talk).
And I really have forgiven, with just one further exception. I think very few people would fault me for this one. But...
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Mosiah 24:13-14 13 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came to them in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.
14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even...
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James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse yourhands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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2 Nephi 26:33 For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto...
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“Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to...”
– Doctrine and Covenants 80:3 (via religiona121)
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“The more we study the scriptures, the more we will want to study the scriptures.” -Victoria’s talk on Sunday
I’ve been thinking about this all week and it really holds true for me. I need to remember it when I’m struggling.
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“There will be times when you will face challenges which might jeopardize your...”
– Thomas S Monson (via myjoyisfull)
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Self-Consciousness
We should, I believe, distrust states of mind which turn our attention upon ourselves. Even at our sins we should look no longer than is necessary to know and to repent them: and our virtues or progress (if any) are certainly a dangerous object of contemplation. When the sun is vertically above a man he casts no shadow: similarly when we have come to the Devine meridian our...
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“Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into...”
– Jesus Christ (via becky-cooper)
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“Yes, there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been...”
– Jeffrey R. Holland
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I’t’s 4 am. I’ve been watching youtube videos of sisters opening their mission calls for the past two hours.
Bawling.
(This may be becoming unhealthy… >.>)
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ineedtodomylaundry:
The Salt Lake Temple is beautiful. A girl at Youth Conference said today, “If the church wasn’t true, people wouldn’t have spent 40 years building something as beautiful as that.” I agree wholeheartedly with her.
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“We do not need to be perfect before partaking of the sacrament, but we must have...”
– Gospel Principles Chapter 23: The Sacrament
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Dreading Sacrament Meeting
It just hit me that this Sunday is Father’s Day.
I don’t really want to spend an hour listening to stories about happy families with fathers that blessed their children’s lives by setting examples of being a good tithe payer and giving priesthood blessings when they went back to school each year.
My father doesn’t even like me. I think the last time we spoke was when I...
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“If any has stumbled in her journey, I promise you that there is a way back. The...”
– Thomas S. Monson (via nadjijuice)
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“Prayer can also be enhanced by fasting. The Lord said, “I give unto you a...”
– Lessons from the Lord’s Prayers
Elder Russell M. Nelson
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Our prayers follow patterns and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. He taught us how to pray.
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Providence
“I was the lion.” And as Shasta gaped with open mouth and said nothing, the voice continued. “I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the Horses the new strength of fear for the last mile so that you should reach King Lune in...
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Doctrine and Covenants 98:3 Therefore, he giveth this promise unto you, with an immutable covenant that they shall be fulfilled; and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good, and to my name’s glory, saith the Lord.
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Visiting Teaching Woes
I’m supposed to visit teach three people this summer. Cool, right? I was planning to move past the fact that my visiting teaching went to crap last semester when I found my companion visiting our sisters without me, and just make it awesome for the summer. (I was assuming that I would have the same girl as a companion and I was correct.)
So we’ve been assigned three sisters. One of...
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“If you don’t have time to pray and read your scriptures, then you are busier...”
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Pray as if everything were up to the Lord, but...
actuallymittromney:
“Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.” - D&C 9:7
While the Lord is ready, able and more than willing to help us, we must also do all we can to gain what we desire. Faith without works is dead.
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“You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is....”
– President Harold B. Lee
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The other day when I taught with the Elders we taught a girl who is just looking for hope. She talked about feeling so much peace as we went over the story of Joseph Smith’s first vision and read from the Book of Mormon. She said that she believes our words because of that feeling—because of the Spirit—and because of the joy and love she sees in us. She said that she wants what...
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Plenty of times I’ve heard people complaining about gender-based order of speakers and prayers during sacrament meeting. People say that it’s a sexist practice of the church (or of an individual ward/branch, or its leaders) to always start with the men.
Well, in my branch today I gave the opening prayer and a brother gave the closing. And with two people giving talks, the sister...
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2 Nephi 24:3 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
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Jacob 2:11 Wherefore, I must tell you the truth according to the plainness of the word of God. For behold, as I inquired of the Lord, thus came the word unto me, saying: Jacob, get thou up into the temple on the morrow, and declare the word which I shall give thee unto this people.
I love this verse because it’s not one that’s this often used to illustrate this point, but to me...
