Tag: notes
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A new calling finally
I can’t even remember exactly how many months it’s been since our Sunday School presidency was dissolved but I finally got a calling again—and it’s not in the Sunday School presidency (the only calling I’ve had in this ward after 6½ years)—Brother Boyer extended a calling to teach gospel doctrine today. Notes Leslie Perry said…
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We love what we know
Sister Preece made the comment that it’s hard to love people that we don’t know. She went on to point out that Christ paid the price to know each of us perfectly so He is able to love us perfectly. I would add that it’s usually hard not to love anyone that we really know.…
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Something is in the air
Thoughts in sacrament meeting Sometimes focusing on Jesus doesn’t mean looking directly toward Him but instead looking toward where He points us. I thought it was interesting when Brother Hartman suggested that sometimes we are “face blind” even to ourselves and invited us to seek to see ourselves the way Heavenly Father sees us. Elders…
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Interesting thoughts over the last couple of days
I didn’t write in my journal last night but it was an interesting day. I talked to set an alarm for the temple on Friday night and then I got a lot of good sleep. I woke up at 6:17 (37 minutes after my alarm would have been set) after 7½ hours of solid sleep.…
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A good stake conference
I think this might be the first stake conference since Emma was born that didn’t feel like some party of it was a battle. Laura and I went to both the adult session and the general session. None of the kids came to any of it but we also didn’t try to convince them to…
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It is not good for man to be alone
It struck me in the temple this morning that “it is not good for man to be alone” isn’t exclusively about the value of marriage—that men need women to help balance them and provide an alternate viewpoint. I believe it also applies to the fact that humans are social beings by nature—we are to be…
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Know thyself
One of the big messages of Wind and Truth (Storm light Archive #5) was about people coming to truly understand and accept themselves—their limitations, their strengths, their desires. I feel like I’m in that same process with myself. One thing I am coming to learn about myself is how much I enjoy being able to…
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Identifying our weapons of rebellion
How do we identify our weapons of rebellion? In priesthood meeting Brother Chang brought up President Benson’s Beware of Pride and it made me think that if we actively look for any enmity in our heart—either toward God or others—we will find most if not all the weapons of rebellion that we are harboring.
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An interesting thought
I had this interesting thought in Sunday School today: Is my feeling of invisibility a weakness that the Lord can/will make strong?