3 Nephi 5:16-6:14
How do these verses exemplify the pride cycle? How can we avoid falling into the pride cycle?
Answer:
We can avoid falling into the pride cycle by being truly converted to the faith, and by being "firm, steadfast and immovable, willing with all diligence to keep the commandments of the Lord."(v.14).
Are our minds and hearts anxiously engaged in good things? Do we just go through the motions or are we truly converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ? Is the seed of faith planted in our souls? When our hearts are no longer set upon the things of this world, we will no longer aspire to the honors of men or seek only to gratify our pride. Instead we take on the Christlike qualities Jesus taught and become His disciples. Missionaries are able to set aside the things of this world and focus totally on serving the Lord and His children. Because of this they experience great power and joy, and their hearts are changed and they have no more disposition to do evil but to do good continually as long as they are obedient.
GC: 'Emissaries to the Church' by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
" We are asking you as home teachers to be God's
emissaries to His children, to love and care and
pray for the people you are assigned."
The elk were here last night. They trampled our grass and left holes in the ground, uprooted Lois's tree and ate the leaves on some of James's other trees. He says he now has a love/hate relationship with elk.
James participated in a ward woodcutting project this morning at the Knight's home. We don't know the Knights but we knew Brother Knight's grandparents Dick and Aggie Brown who are no longer with us. We loved Dick and Aggie. Dick was the Sunday greeter when we first moved to Vernon and he always seemed so glad to see you when you came to Church. Aggie was older than me but she went to Creighton School in Phoenix just like I did.
Off he goes with his new log splitter.
I stayed at home and cleaned. We have a class meeting in our home on Sunday evening starting tomorrow. The first thing I did was sweep, clean and polish the wood floors. Afterwards I vacuumed the couch and all the floors in the family-living room area. I also dusted, and cleaned the kitchen floor and the kitchen. I kept busy most of the day.
When James returned from the service project he went to work on our loveseat that has been broken for quite sometime.
He was able to fix it so the sides don't fall off when
you sit down, but it is no longer a recliner.
James also did some more trapping today. Either he is catching different squirrels each time or this one really likes his cage.
Somebody help me, it's a trap!
One giant leap.
This I am going to miss now that the kids are gone home: Playing Uno theMatch game and doing the donut puzzle with Ruby, ping pong, Bounce Off and Poker tournaments with the other kids. They were so great and there was no fighting or arguing, or at least if there was I didn't hear.
This evening I worked on my Primary lesson. James is not going to teach tomorrow because he has laryngitis.
I like this picture of Anna and a friend that she posted on Snapchat.
I like the pumpkin too.
Ruby has sure changed in the last
couple of years. I couldn't
resist posting this.
