David Journal

Tag: service

  • Taking Savannah to the Temple

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    We went to the temple this morning with Savannah for her twelfth birthday. She’s been looking forward for a long time to going to the temple and I think she came away underwhelmed. The activities in the temple, especially baptisms for the dead are fairly pedestrian in form. I felt really good being able to…

  • First Observe, Then Serve

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    First Observe, Then Serve Do we choose to serve as we desire or as the Lord would serve or as the needs dictate.

  • Be Anxiously Engaged

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    He says that Elder Perry must be the youngest 90-year-old in he church. Great things are brought about and burdens lightened by many hands anxiously engaged in good works. In your morning prayers ask Heavenly Father each day to help you recognize an opportunity to serve someone that day. If you do this your spiritual…

  • The Caregiver

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    The women of the Church of Jesus Christ have been moving toward becoming the society of sisters that the Prophet Joseph Smith’s mother, Lucy Mack Smith, described in these words: “We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another and gain instruction, that we may all sit down in heaven together.” There…

  • Preparation in the Priesthood: “I Need Your Help”

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    Priesthood preparation. We may wonder if we are prepared for the service that is asked of us. My answer is that yes, you are prepared. Because of the veil of forgetfulness part of our mission in this life is to relearn and recommit to what we defended before this life. Crucial choices necessary for priesthood…

  • What I Hope My Granddaughters (and Grandsons) Will Understand about Relief Society

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    I hope my granddaughters will understand that Relief Society today is organized after a pattern of discipleship that existed in the ancient Church. What is the pattern? It seems to be the pattern of individual effort based on faith in Christ and guided by personal revelation and priesthood direction. Rather than being selected by popular…

  • Journal 24 September 2011

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    This morning we got up and went to the bountiful Community Church to work on their grounds for our ward day of service. We got more work done than I would have expected and the place looks much better. What I really liked seeing was how engaged and happy everyone was even as they were…

  • Service – October 2007

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    We should not be so consumed by our church calling that we do not have time to give simple Christian service.I admire those who give of themselves to improve schools and communities. President Gordon B. Hinckley has said: “No man can be a true Latter-day Saint who is unneighborly, who does not reach out to…

  • What Have I Done for Someone Today?

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    We should do what we can – based on our talents and capacities – to help others. All of us can do something for someone. Man’s greatest strength comes form losing himself in the service of others. Sometimes we spend the bulk of our time taking care of those things which do not really matter…

  • Service, a Divine Quality

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    His doctrine is one of love, forgiveness, and mercy. It is the way to live in peace and harmony among men and the way to return to live with God. I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our…