Our Lives Have Meaning, Purpose, and Direction
As daughters of God, “our lives have meaning, purpose, and direction”. (Relief Society Declaration) God loves all of us, His spirit daughters, and has a plan for our lives, a plan of happiness, also known as the plan of salvation. “Questions like, Where did we come...
Testimony Comes Through Humility
When Nephi, whose writings are the first we have in the Book of Mormon, was a teenager, his father had a great vision. Nephi longed to know for himself that what his father had said was true, so he went off alone and asked God for confirmation. In response, he...
The Book of Mormon Testifies of the Bible
The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi experienced his first vision as a teenaged boy. An angel instructed him in many aspects of the gospel, including the importance of the Bible, which of course, was not yet complete, since the vision happened around 600 BC. In this...
Being Refined in an Unrefined Society
It seems nearly every day there is something else astonishing in the news–most of it bad or repugnant. Short of hiding our heads in the sand or hibernating in a cave until the Second Coming, we will be faced with crass or even overtly sick material in the media from...
What Seek Ye?
Let’s talk for just a minute about some of the first disciples of Christ; the first people to recognize His divinity and walk away from their own lives to find out about His. Though the scriptures identify one of these gentlemen as Andrew and goes on to discuss some...
We Are United in Devotion to Jesus Christ, Our Savior and Exemplar
Within the Relief Society Declaration is the statement: “As a worldwide sisterhood, we are united in our devotion to Jesus Christ, our Savior and Exemplar.” Yes, as established in a previous post, we are a world wide sisterhood, spirit daughters of our Heavenly...
Is It Time To Give Up?
I was visiting with two wonderful friends a couple of nights ago. Eventually, our conversation turned to our children and our families. We discussed our dreams and hopes for them. One friend fretted over a teenager who has chosen to drop out of high school to follow...
When They Fall
Mistakes! We’ve all made them. Some mistakes are easily corrected, others can take quite a lot of time and effort to fix. I’ve made my share of mistakes. I will probably make a few more before my time on this earth is through. Big or small, I can honestly say that...
Thomas S. Monson: A Latter-Day Prophet
As surely as the sun rises in the east every morning, each of us will face the day when we shuffle off this mortal coil and report to our God. At this time we will be greeted by loved ones and ancestors who have carefully watched our progress on earth. It will be a...
This Is Who We Are
Who are the women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what do they believe about womanhood? I feel that Mary Ellen Smoot, President of the Relief Society, answered these very questions when she introduced the world and the women of the Church to the...
Repentance
Repentance is a basic principle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was made possible because of His Atoning Sacrifice. Sadly, it has become a hellfire and damnation portion of His Gospel, such as it was never intended to be. The principle of repentance is one of loving...
Happiness: An Eternal Goal
Do you know where you’re going? Every day we make decisions that determine where we will end up at the end of the day. Did we overeat today, so tonight we’ll feel full and bloated? Did we exercise today, so tonight we will feel strong and healthy? Did we pay our bills...
Lehi’s Vision of the Savior
Lehi’s story, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, begins in 600 B.C., long before the Savior’s birth. However, this great prophet learned of the Savior and his son, Nephi, recorded the vision so it could be kept for our day. When the Savior came to the Nephites, it was...
Understanding the Gospel
Nephi is the first writer in the Book of Mormon. He was a teenager when the events recorded began, but didn’t begin recording them until he was much older. As a teenager, his father had a powerful vision of the Savior and of God’s love for us. Nephi was a young man of...
Sanctuaries for the Disciple
Think about your favorite places to be. What makes them special to you? What feelings and experiences are associated with that place? Would others feel the same way about it? The word sanctuary can have many different meanings, but somewhere along the line they all...
Staying True to Your Faith
Lehi was the first prophet of the Book of Mormon. Early in the timeline of the story of his life as a prophet, about 600 B.C., we learn of an extraordinary vision he received, known today as the Vision of the Tree of Life. In this vision, Lehi saw the Savior’s birth,...
Rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ
This weekend I was privileged to spend several hours learning about Jesus Christ. At a church meeting for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or Mormons,) we devoted all our attention to that Savior Who is the center of our religion, our faith, and our...
Teens: Making Weak Things Strong
I took a weightlifting class my senior year of high school, and loved it! After just a few weeks of working the different machines I discovered new, fairly awesome muscles in places I didn’t think muscles existed. After a few more weeks I thought I was doing pretty...
Only Faith Converts
Laman and Lemuel were the two oldest sons of the prophet Lehi. Lehi was the first prophet of the Book of Mormon, a man called to cry repentance to the Jews, and then instructed by God to take his family and only the most essential possessions and flee into the...
Praying About the Book of Mormon
The story of the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) began with a scripture about prayer. A fourteen-year-old boy named Joseph Smith had been struggling with the decision of which church to join. He visited many churches, but could not...
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