Fall in Vermont
3 Nephi 8:5-25
How can we prepare today for the Savior's Second Coming?
Answer: We are going to need righteous priesthood holders to perform miracles. We need to follow the prophets. Spiritually speaking, we will always face a "great storm (v.5) and a "great and terrible tempest" (v.6) when we chose to disobey our Father.
Now is the time to repent and prepare. Elder Klebingat (Oct. 2014 GC), asks: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your spiritual confidence before God? Do you have a personal witness that your current offering as a Latter-day Saint is sufficient to inherit eternal life? Can you say within yourself that Heavenly Father is pleased with you? Six practical suggestions by Elder Klebingat: 1) Take responsibility for your own spiritual well-being. 2) Take responsibility for your own physical well-being. 3) Embrace wholehearted obedience as part of your life. 4) Become really good at repenting thoroughly and quickly. 5) Become good at forgiving. 6) Accept trials, setbacks, and surprises as part of your mortal experience."
BYU Roundtable Discussion:
One professor said: "The barometer of how great and terrible the Second Coming will be is our relationship to the prophets."
GC: 'The Perfect Path to Happiness' by President Thomas S. Monson
"I testify of the great gift which is our Father's plan for us. It is the one perfect path to peace and happiness."
One of my favorite President Hinckley quotes!
I read an article this morning by Larry Barkdull entitled: "When a Marriage is Sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise". I get emails from Meridian Magazine and this article was in today's email. Here are a few quotes from this article:
"Temple marriage is initially provisional, waiting for obedience to
make it 'more sure.' But when that marriage is sealed by the
Holy Spirit of Promise, great powers are unleashed, and parents' love can become a powerful saving agent for their children."
"For single parents and those wishing to be sealed in the temple, this can be a painful reminder. However, though this article
deals specifically with the power given to married couples
who are sealed in the temple, many principles apply
to singles, single parents, those working for eternal union with less-active spouses, and to children who are praying for their
wayward parents. The principle of grace states that we
do all we can do with what we have, and the Lord will
make up the difference."
"Love between a husband and a wife can be welded into an unbreakable link by the temple marriage covenant. If a couple
lives true to that covenant, they can become one in word, purpose, and deed. That quality of oneness is the ultimate unity
necessary to obtain redemptive blessings in
behalf of our children."
President Joseph Fielding Smith said, "Those born under the covenant, throughout all eternity, are the children of their
parents. Nothing except the unpardonable sin, or sin unto death, can break the tie. If children do not sin as John said,
unto death, the parents may still feel after them and
eventually bring them back near to them again."
President James E. Faust said this:
"When the covenant of marriage for time and eternity, the culminating gospel ordinance, is sealed by the Holy Spirit of
promise, it can literally open the windows of heaven for great
blessings to flow to a married couple who seek for
those blessings."
I ask James if he thought our marriage was sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise? His answer: "I hope so." If it was, would we know? I think we are getting better. We can go days without any contention and on those days I feel that it is. It is definitely a goal.
There was no wind this morning so James went out looking for elk. I thought I got a picture but I can't find it. Needless to say you have seen the picture before where he is dressed totally in camouflage.
We made a trip to town again today for plumber's glue, and prescriptions. James's prescription that Dr. Moffat wrote yesterday still isn't ready. I guess the doctor has to call our insurance company for verification.
We went to Walmart and I got a birthday gift for Hailey, one of the sisters I visit teach, and some food for the Vernon holiday food drive. While shopping I visited with my friends from Vernon, Alice, Johnny, Sandra and baby George.
While I was shopping James went to Home Depot and then he picked up sandwiches from Firehouse Subs for us. I bought myself a hazlenut Snickers and James some Reisens. On the way back home I read from Apocalypse the Unveiling.
James took some fencing to his friend Kip and his tractor broke down by Pierre's on the way home. He had to leave it over night. He will need to go in to town again tomorrow to get something to fix it. I cleaned out a cupboard in our bathroom to make room for a "gift shelf".
Second shelf is my gift shelf.
I also emptied a couple of boxes and found these guys:
I remember buying these at the Walgreen's in
Chandler last year.
While working on my blog I watched one of the new Aurora Teagarden mysteries, "The Julius House." Candace Cameron Bure plays Aurora and Marilu Henner plays her mom Aiada.
I couldn't resist.
I keep a daily journal of times I felt the Spirit throughout the day. It usually includes prayer, scripture study, and conference talks. Today I felt the Spirit because James and I had no contention between us. Now that is a good feeling.
Joshua and Shipley, the best of friends.
