I have a great love of the temple. Every time I go, I feel closer to my Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ. I feel the love that they have for me there and for all of the children of the world. I feel the love that my ancestors have for me and I feel more love for them [...]
The greatest gift, I believe, we were given, is the gift of repentance. We know God is perfect in every way. If He wasn’t He would cease to be God, and we know that in order to live in His presence we need to be perfect as well. So how do we accomplish perfection? We have already made so [...]
What makes the medal of an Olympian so sweet or the degree of a scholar so joyful? What makes the bond between mother to child so strong? The answer to all of these questions is “Sacrifice.” Elder Dieter F Uchtdorf said, “To sacrifice means to give something up in favor of something more valuable. (“Our Heartfelt All”, General Conference, April [...]
There have been many times in my life where I have sought personal revelation from God on questions that I have or guidance that I need. I have found that it is one of the greatest gifts I have been given, the gift to be able to speak to God and to have Him answer me. It took me [...]
Family. It is all about family. Our personal family. Our extended family. Our church family. God’s family. We are all children of God and part of one big family. The main purpose for us to be here on this earth is to learn and grown in families. Families are a gift from God. It is in the family that [...]
Once, when I was sixteen, I went with some friends to a grove of orange trees to play hide and seek. The trees had just been irrigated and so the ground was very muddy. One of us decided that it would be funny to start a mud fight. So, hide and seek turned into a running, slipping, face-planting, mud [...]
There is a show on T.V. that is called, “My Strange Addictions”. I have only seen it a couple times but each time I watched it I found myself asking, “Why are they doing this to themselves? How did this get started?” I came to realize that it doesn’t matter to Satan what we become addicted to. He doesn’t [...]
Agency! The prize that we fought for before we came to earth. The prize that the adversary is still trying to take away from us. Agency is king. It is what wars are fought over even to this day. Agency was the gift that was given from our Heavenly Father so that we would have the opportunity to choose [...]
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