* Preparing Our Hearts and Minds. . .
From Marion D. Hanks of the Seventy (deceased): Preparing for prayer can help communication with the Lord become an experience full of meaning and full of love, and can help to bring about the realization of God’s purposes, and of our appropriate purposes, in...When to Receive Your Patriarchal Blessing
When to Receive Your Patriarchal Blessing By Elder Kazuhiko Yamashita of the Seventy When you receive your blessing, you will realize and feel how Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you and how They focus on you individually. Yesterday my dear friend Elder...* The Great Transgression[s]
From his book ‘For Times of Trouble,’ Jeffrey R. Holland quotes from Psalm 19:13: Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great transgression. The inevitable...* If I Were Seventeen. . .
From Richard L. Evans, his book ‘The Man and the Message:’ If I were seventeen, or even if I had reached the ripe old age of eighteen or nineteen I would remember that in the matter of preparing for life, delays are seldom profitable. I would make a...The Work of the Temple and Family History—-One and the Same Work
Elder Benjamin De Hoyos of the Seventy spoke in the Saturday session of April 2023 general conference, sharing: The Work and Purpose of Temples That experience has permitted me to appreciate much better how, after three years of hard work and great sacrifice, the...Hosanna to the Most High
Hosanna to the Most High God by Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the events of the week that followed exemplify doctrine we can apply in our lives today. Today, as has been said, we join...* The Holiness of Everyday Life III
Continuing from a previous post, apply this when faced often with the mundane and boring. . . . continuing from The Holiness of Everyday Life II, Joan B. MacDonald wrote: Doing housework while measuring the time and effort required to do it, eagerly anticipating its...Followers of the Prince of Peace
Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in the Sunday morning session of April 2023 general conference: . . . . In 1847, the Lord gave specific instructions to the pioneer Saints, who needed peace to remain calm and united as they faced...Your Patriarchal Blessing—Inspired Direction from Heavenly Father
Your Patriarchal Blessing—Inspired Direction from Heavenly Father By Elder Randall K. Bennett of the Seventy My patriarchal blessing helped me understand my true eternal identity—who I really was and who I could become. I was raised by wonderful parents who loved and...
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I am married and we have 3 children and many grandchildren. Our children have chosen wisely in their careers and in marriage and I attribute much of their success, as they do, to a close relationship with Jesus Christ… Click for more.