Our Decision to Have Kids

When we first got married we talked about having kids and decided it would be best to wait until the Husband and the Wife were out of school.  We moved off to college and began our new lives together.  It wasn’t but a couple of months when we found ourselves in a joint priesthood/RS lesson [...]

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God is Good – Nashville Tribute

Taken from Trek: A Nashville Tribute (Track 3 & 4) (LDS Audio) (Nashville Tribute Website) Track 3: “I stopped my carriage on the top of a hill in the midst of a rolling prairie where I had an extended view of all about me.  I beheld the saints coming in all directions from hills and [...]

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Star Wars – Faith

Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope (Wikipedia) During the final fight scene Skywalker is flying down in the crevasse getting ready to try and make the miracle shot down the shaft.  He pulls down his computer to tell him when to fire, and he hears Obi-Wan’s voice. Luke, Trust your feelings. Use the [...]

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Make Enough of Me

Taken from Julie de Azevedo Home Track 6 Overwhelmed and underpaid Morning comes too soon Running late and on my plate A million things to do Got a baby cryin’ Another trying to find the other shoe When I open my eyes The dam will break Their need will flood my room You made wine from [...]

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Like a Pencil

“I am like a little pencil in [God's] hand.  That is all.  He does the thinking.  He does the writing.  The pencil has nothing to do with it.  The pencil has only to be allowed to be used.  ”Mother Teresa: Missionary of Compassion, Time, December 4, 1989  I find that when I submit to the [...]

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Why Mormons Build Temples

(How to Download Video – Direct Video URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x_-TQivCx8) There has been so much controversy surround the temple as of late and I have been inundated with emails from my friends about abandoning HBO (like I have it anyway), and letting our voices be heard.  It was such a relief to read this commentary from the [...]

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Exciting Times!

President Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth President of the Church, “A Prophet’s Counsel and Prayer for Youth.”  Ensign, Jan. 2001, 2 “Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I was your age. . . . I worried about school and where it would lead. It was the season of the terrible economic depression. I [...]

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Have Times Changed?

Thomas S. Monson, “Come Unto Him in Prayer and Faith.”  Ensign, March 2009, pg. 7. “Now, the skeptic may say that these mighty accounts of faith occurred long ago, that times have changed. Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as [...]

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Have you Tried Prayer?

Thomas S. Monson, “Come Unto Him in Prayer and Faith.”  Ensign, March 2009, pg. 6. “As we offer unto the Lord our family prayers and our personal prayers, let us do so with faith and trust in Him. Let us remember the injunction of Paul to the Hebrews: “For he that cometh to God must [...]

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