Category: Journal
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Big day for Savannah
Tonight Savannah asked if we could talk in my cave. I interrupted the math that Alyssa and I were working on to hear what she had to say (expecting it to take 5 minutes). After a couple of false starts while trying to steel her nerves she told me first that one of her good…
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Nephite Genocide
Goodtidingsofgood.org – this sounds very inspirational. In introducing Mormon 1-6 Sister Julie Nelson spoke about human responses to genocide. It struck me that the destruction of the Nephites was exactly that – genocide. I’d never thought of it from that perspective before. That absolutely explains the motivations of the Lamanites. No matter how few survivors…
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Happy Birthday to me
Today was my 40th birthday. There’s nothing particularly journal-worthy about that but Laura made sure to fix a very nice dinner for me and the kids took the time to acquire a full set of new Rubik’s cubes for me (2×2, 3×3, 4×4, & 5×5). They all sang a couple of rousing renditions of Happy…
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Voting in Utah
Voting in Utah is depressing this year. Most years the Democrats make an attempt to field an actual challenger for many of the races and sometimes the other parties actually offer up a reasonable option as well. This year I find that in every partisan race the only serious candidate (if there is one) is…
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Gathering the Lost
I was thinking of Issac when I had this epiphany. Perhaps we should gather to us those who are lost rather than sending them away as punishment for their misdeeds. Thinking of them as a sheep or a coin makes it easier to accept their foibles and take it upon ourselves to gather them in.…
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He asks us to be His hands
I failed to note who told this story but it struck me as a fantastic example of reaching out in a simple but powerful and timely way. I went to hike the Lair O The Bear with the kids. With a half mile to go, we passed a dad hiking with his two kids ages…
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Regional Conference
Bishop Waddel He shares a story about a multi-generation family accepting the gospel because of a Book of Mormon that was given to one brother who never even touched it after accepting it and setting it on a shelf. I don’t know who he was quoting “the Book of Mormon is the instrument of conversion…
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Stake Conference – General Session
Tiffany Smith in stake relief society presidency (2nd C) President Barlow How do we ensure that we never waver in our testimony once we have received it? One way that we dwindle is that we allow questions to become doubts and cease seeking for understanding. Sister Joni Walker Understand your adversary; focus on the finish…
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Stake Conference – Adult Session
President Walker Draw Closer to the Lord by Serving Others – pray each day for guidance on who to serve; have the strength to follow the guidance we receive; express gratitude to all who serve us. The more we act on inspiration to help others the more the Lord will entrust us with more inspiration.…
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Pointing to examples of righteousness
In one very short sermon (at least short in the form that it came to us), Helaman reminded his sons of Christ and the good example of Lehi, Nephi, and king Benjamin as disciples of Christ.