Recent Blog Posts
Balance
Take time, slow down, rest up and appreciate what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and what’s ahead! Find some balance in your life. If you burn out, you won't be much good to anyone. "Fatigue is the common enemy of us all -- so slow down, rest up, replenish and refill."...
Agency and Accountability- For the Strength of Youth
Every single word in the strength of youth is important. It’s difficult to choose a few key points...the Lord has wasted no words. Please go back and read it for yourself...(I left a couple phrases out...so that you can go read it! 😉 ) 2 Nephi 2:27 Wherefore, men …...
Look unto God
Jacob 3:1 But behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart. Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who...
The Dollar In Our Pockets: Ministering
A teacher ask her primary class, “How many of you would give $100 to the missionaries?” The whole class eagerly rose their hands. Then she ask, “How many of you would give $50 to the missionaries?” Again all the kids eagerly raised their hands. One more time she ask,...
Imperfect People
I’m grateful for a God and His seemingly infinite patience with our inability to grow and come unto Him. We are growing, just slowly! “Imperfect people are all God ever had to work with. That must be terrible frustrating to Him, but He deals with it, so should we.”...
Best Version of You
Have faith that the creator knows what He is doing! He is doing a mighty work to make each of us into the best version of ourselves, if we will but let Him. “He loves you. He created you. ... He wants you to be your best you, and he will help you find and become that...
7 Tips to Show Gratitude to Your Spouse…Finding Joy in Marriage
The best way to have a good marriage is to see the good in the marriage. It’s the same as anything else in life...if we focus on the difficulties in life, life quickly becomes overwhelming. As we count our blessings, and recognize the good In life...it suddenly...
Thou art the Christ
And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Matthew 16:16. I love this account. He knew through the Holy Ghost that Jesus was the Christ, do we know? If not what are we doing so that we can know for ourselves. Let’s make that our...
Everything I Need To Know, I Learned From Nephi!: Applying the Scriptures to Our Lives
Everything I need to know, I learned from Nephi:— written by Clair, age 13 Obey your parents: when Lehi asks his sons to go back to Jerusalem Nephi obeys. Unlike his brothers, Nephi doesn’t hesitate, he just obeys his father’s command because he trusts his father. And...
Why We Go To Church
I love this quote! Truth is, you get out of anything what you put in. I’ve been uplifted by a Primary lesson and walked away from a Stake Leadership training disappointed. The difference was my preparation and openness. “When we think we didn’t get anything out of a...
10 Incredible Quotes by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland; The Ministry of Reconciliation (October 2018)
I testify of the tranquility to the soul that reconciliation with God and each other will bring if we are meek and courageous enough to pursue it. Indeed, to a great degree, our relationship to Christ will be determined--or at least affected--by our relationship to...
This is a test…only a test. (Don’t be Satan’s Test Bunny)
This is a test...only a test!!! I feel like this is how the adversary works...he just tests tactics on us to see if they work. We are his test bunnies. If they do work, well, he takes it as far as he can, until we are his...we are just a pawn in his games. Until we...
Deepening Our Conversion
The closer we are to the fence, the more we put ourselves at risk! Stick to God, stick to the Gospel, read the scriptures, say your prayers, go to the temple, and buckle up. "World Conditions increasingly require deepening individual conversion to...
6 great quotes from Dallin H. Oaks in his 2018 conference talk, Truth And The Plan
Click here for lesson helps:https://spiritualcrusade.com/2019/02/lesson-truth-and-the-plan-by-dallin-h-oaks.html Here is 6 great quotes from Dallin H. Oaks in his October 2018 conference talk.Here is the...
No greater immediate responsibility
“No greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the church, than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the constitution of the United States.” David O. McKay
Love Your Choice
Love, as a word, is both a noun and a verb. A noun is a person, place, or thing. A verb is an action word. In this case, you first choose your love (the noun), then you love (the verb) your choice. Loving your choice means showing them that you love them by your...
Quotes by M. Russell Ballard about The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead (October 2018)
I testify that the vision President Joseph F. Smith received is true. I bear witness that every person can come to know it is true. “As I read I was greatly impressed. … As I pondered over these things … , the eyes of my understanding were opened, and the Spirit of...
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” Muhammad Ali
How We Can Be More Like Ammon: Applying The Scriptures To Our Lives.
For devotional this morning my family talked about the story of Ammon. Link here, https://www.lds.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/17?lang=eng In this story Ammon is working as a servant for King Lamoni. He and several other servants get assigned the job of taking care...
Experiences of an Early Return Missionary
I was mulling a couple different ideas for this week's blog and I read an article that made the decision for me. Deseret News recently came out with their latest in a series of articles about teenage anxiety. This particular article was on early return missionaries....
