David Journal

Tag: 2018

  • Lift Up Your Head and Rejoice

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    All of us must confront hard things at times in our lives. We can face hard things first by forgiving others and second by giving ourselves to the Lord. Blaming our challenges on others won’t help us to get through the challenges.

  • Deep and Lasting Conversion to Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

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    Starting in January 2019 we will have 2 hour church. Sacrament meeting each week followed by primary each week and alternating weeks of Sunday School and Priesthood/Relief Society with the bishop directing 5th Sunday meetings. Decoupling FHE from Monday nights. There will be a resource for gospel teaching provided to each household before then. I…

  • Opening Remarks

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    Beginning with thanks for the members’ efforts to implement the changes since April. What’s coming next? We have often seen the gospel as centered on what happens at the chapel supported by what happens in the home. We need to shift to seeing the gospel as being centered in the home supported by what happens…

  • Let Us All Press On

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    Home teaching and visiting teaching as we have known them are retired. This should be interesting. Everything below here is from the closing message. Conscientiously incorporate what you have learned here in the next six months. 7 new temples: Argentina India Nicaragua Philippines Layton, Utah Richmond, Virginia Russia (major city, TBD)

  • Prepare to Meet God

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    Many if not most countries are deeply divided about how to live life but I’m the church we follow only the culture of the gospel which sells for unity before Heavenly Father.

  • It Is All about People

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    The mayor understood that the way to truly understand the church want through its buildings but in the loves of it’s members. “Our work is all about people and covenants.” “When I was called as a stake president I had many ambitious goals. At the end of six years not one of those goals had…

  • Behold the Man!

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    He wants everyone to know that he is happy with his assignment even if some people have a tendency to view it as a demotion. Combine all the events that significantly affected the destinies of nations and people and they still can’t compare to the effect of the Atonement. Because of the Atonement, regardless of…

  • Ministering as the Savior Does

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    “What does ministering look like? … It looks like becoming part of somebody’s life.” The story of the sister who was in a new city for her husband’s graduate school sounds like Jason Black. If we implement this program the way it is being described, members of the church will truly learn how to tackle…

  • “Be With and Strengthen Them”

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    We must rise above mechanical, rote, checking the boxes action. The primary purpose will be to watch over the people. That can include a message when appropriate but giving a message isn’t the goal. “With these adjustments we want more care, not less.” “We all need to feel the warm hand of friendship and the…

  • Prophets Speak by the Power of the Holy Spirit

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    “Having prophets is a sign of God’s love for His children.”