tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63193431258663065532024-03-05T15:12:26.090-06:00All About the Argylesshahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.comBlogger490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-41221844474313314062019-09-11T17:57:00.001-05:002019-09-11T18:01:19.792-05:00Father knows best<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few years ago I was released from a calling that just about kicked my rear. It was challenging to say the least and stretched me in ways that I never could have imagined. It was a calling that I really did NOT want to accept but submitted my will and gave it my very best effort the entire time I held it. At the end of that time I felt really good about the work I had done. </div>
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So I thought I deserved (as a reward of sorts) that maybe it would be okay if I asked Heavenly Father to give me a calling I <u>wanted</u> now that I was done. I had a conversation with him something like this: "Heavenly Father, don't you think it would be cool if I was put in young women since I have two girls in young women?" I worked in the young women program for 17 years before Jensen (our oldest daughter) was a part of it. SEVENTEEN years is a long time and none of that time or energy had benefited my own girls. I thought it would be cool if he answered my prayerful request by inspiring my bishop to call me to the young woman organization in my group. I didn't care where I served there, just wanted to be with my girls. It sounded fun. It seemed like a fairly righteous desire.</div>
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But instead I got called to something else. Something that didn't require very much of my time. It wasn't very challenging. It didn't stretch me. And honestly, it frustrated me. Here I had all this time on my hands and I was given a responsibility that required virtually nothing from me.</div>
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So I decided to go looking for something that WOULD challenge me. I wanted to learn and grow and be anxiously engaged in a good cause. Before I knew it, and within a matter of a few months:</div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">1). I found myself on the executive board of the Prosper Ladies Association (a philanthropic organization in my town). I had the chance to work shoulder to shoulder with some really remarkable like-minded women. We did some pretty cool charitable t</span><span style="color: orange;">hings.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>2.) I was elected PTO President of my girls' middle school with a dear friend. We staffed our board with great ladies (members of my faith and good women who were members of other faiths). We formed strong friendships that I still treasure today. I look back at the time in my life and I think it was the first time in all of my adult years that I had more NON member friends than I did member friends. It was such a good experience and I learned a lot from those great ladies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><b>3.) I read and re-read my patriarchal blessing over and over again for several months and because of some things written in there, I decided to go back to school, get my Masters Degree, and become a licensed counselor. </b></span></div>
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My plan was to get so busy that even if they came to me and asked me to do something in my ward that required a lot of me, I would have to (spitefully) turn them down. Take that!</div>
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It's hard for me to admit that now, but it was where my head was at the time. Hopefully I have grown a little since then.</div>
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Flash forward five years and I am a licensed counselor driving home from a day at my office. On that particular day I had just met with someone who was going through a truly tragic situation. I felt good about the session I had just left and was praying for the woman I had met with (something I often do as I head to the office and as I am returning home). I was expressing gratitude for the work we had done and the progress we had made and the fact that the Spirit had helped me know what to say to help.</div>
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And then just as I closed this silent prayer in the car, a thought came into my mind:</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">"Ya know, you never would have been in a position to help her...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">if you would have been called to be a young woman leader...because you never would have gone looking for more..."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">All the way home.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know Heavenly Father can make so much more out of our lives than we can. He has done that so many times in my life. I've seen it happen in the lives of others that I associate with, as well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and being sstttrrreeetttccchhhheeeddd in the best ways.</span></span></div>
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<br />shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-12231468644257081362018-07-17T09:35:00.001-05:002018-07-17T09:35:29.910-05:00Good things to ComeI have been pretty sparse in posting due to being anxiously engaged in other ventures that required a lot of my attention. And that is okay. I have one more week of practicum before I wrap up grad school for good. Not sure what happens next.<br />
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Especially since yesterday Brent found himself on the receiving end of a pink slip. It is a great example of how you can go from being one of the top salesman at the President's Circle celebration trip one year to the unemployed line.<br />
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And that is okay too, because we are prepared. We have very few financial obligations, savings in the bank, a little income still coming in, and a lot of Faith that everything is in Heavenly Father's hands. I feel peace.</div>
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We decided first and foremost that whatever we need to do, submit, be open to doing- we would. If that means moving from a home that has been a very comfortable fit for the last 12 years, so be it. Our hearts aren't set on staying here. We have grown to love so many of the people around us but if the personal revelation says to move, we will be open to that.</div>
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Meanwhile I count my blessings.</div>
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Brent, Jensen, Tanner, McKinley, Reagan, and Brady.</div>
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The really strong Spirit we felt at scripture study this morning</div>
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Pools on hot summer days</div>
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Savings/ Being debt free</div>
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Good friends who comfort in times of needing comfort</div>
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A good night's rest</div>
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King of Queen's episodes that make me laugh</div>
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Brent's homemade whole wheat chocolate chip pancakes</div>
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Fulfilling work</div>
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Being a week away from being done with school</div>
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The temple</div>
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Seeing good things happens other people</div>
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Tanner's scholarship</div>
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Jensen's new job</div>
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Red Gerber Daisies</div>
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Good Books</div>
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Prophets</div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-05-12-good-things-to-come?lang=eng" target="_blank">Trust God and Believe in Good Things To Come</a></div>
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<br />shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-50636696459224633342017-09-02T14:40:00.003-05:002017-09-02T15:29:34.366-05:00Rewards, pay days, and weddings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I've been thinking a lot this week about rewards and pay days. I think it is pretty easy to forget and we all need to be reminded of the fact that THIS LIFE IS NOT THE REWARD. We all want it to be. Sometimes we expect it to be. We forget the purpose behind real earthly experience. We see others around us seemingly living a charmed life and we think, they are getting their rewards. Where are mine? (At least that is our PERCEPTION of what is going on.) But we need to constantly remind ourselves,at least I do, that this is where we EARN our reward. The other side of the veil is where we get the prize. </div>
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We need to remember this because sometimes life feels like the test that it is and it is pretty easy to get discouraged. </div>
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Case in point, I was consoling one of my kiddos the other day. Sometimes, even when you are fairly popular at school and seem to have a lot of friends, it can feel like you don't get invited to the things that everyone else does because everyone knows that you don't drink, smoke, vape, hook up with guys, etc. As you all get older, more and more of your friends want to to do those things. There are weekends its fine. Even though you can check out your social media and you see everyone gathered at a party living it up, you are fine with it because they are doing things you have chosen not to do. But there are also weekends that it just plain sucks. It feels like everyone you know is at so and so's party living it up and you are the only one not invited. It isn't true but it certainly can feel that way. It is easy to get discouraged and feel like you don't have a friend in the world.</div>
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That is when I reminded said child of this kid, rewards, and paydays. </div>
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I remember several years ago that this boy sat in the exact same spot on our family room couch lamenting to me that he was bored. It was another lonely weekend of his high school life and he had no-one to hang out with. His best friend was a club soccer athlete and had games all weekend and all of the other guys that he hung out with in school were off doing fun things. When I asked him why he didn't just call one of them to do something he said, </div>
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"Mom, I love my friends and they are so much fun at school. They are good friends. But they are all off doing stuff every weekend that I don't want to be tempted to do." </div>
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I thought it was profound. After that I tried to be sensitive to that and support him in his quest to uphold the personal standards that he had set in place. That awesome kid never lost sight of what he wanted. He went on to serve a two year mission for his church, returned with honor, jut completed his first year of college, and just two months ago he married the girl of his dreams. </div>
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See how happy he looks?</div>
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I reminded said other child that on July 21st, 2017 her big brother got his pay day for all those years of sitting home with not much to do. And if you asked him if it was worth it, he would tell you that he would do it all over again in a heartbeat - a hundred times over. It was so worth it.</div>
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This life is not the reward but our Heavenly Father gives us "pay days" every once in awhile to remind us that anything worth having is worth working for, </div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't posted in awhile. A year really. Teaching adult institute and going to graduate school have sucked up all my discretionary time. However, I saw this post on Facebook and it struck a chord. I love everything about this article (Written by a YSA ward Bishop). My primary motivation in posting it here is to help me remember me to heir on the side of love and focus on my own beams and motes, not others as well as to put it somewhere that I can find easily for a future institute lesson for New Testament next semester. :O)</span></div>
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During my life, I’ve heard this question at times … usually when someone is looking at a bridal or a wedding photo. I’m sure I’ve asked it. I don’t think that is a question we should be asking. It’s a reflection of our ‘check-list’ culture that marginalizes some in Mormonism … making it difficult to fit in … and is exactly one of the things Christ was trying to undo during his ministry. I use this question as an example for the broader issue of judging people in Mormonism thru our “list of rules” eyes … rules that I believe in and teach ... instead of seeing them as Heavenly Father’s children doing the best they can.</div>
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As a YSA Bishop, I performed many ring ceremonies. The purpose is to bring the families together in celebration of a wonderful day. A few times I received comments after posting ring ceremony or temple bridal photos. Questions like “did you see what was missing in that photo” or "what was missing below her shoulder straps”. It was disappointing for me this what some 'saw' and chose to discuss ... instead of the goodness and beauty of that wonderful couple ... and gave me better understanding how some in Mormonism feel marginalized and withdraw. </div>
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I reflected on that ring ceremony. I never noticed that her garment may have been missing … it never entered my mind. All I saw was the beauty of that young couple coming together to be married. Her tender hearted father walking her down the aisle presenting her to her new husband. Could it be they were new converts and their family were not members? Could it be only the couple to be married, two witnesses, and the Sealer attended the Sealing to make sure no one felt excluded? Could it be this wonderful women as a new convert didn't have a lifetime of instruction on and preparation for this issue? Could it be she was wearing her own mother’s wedding dress? </div>
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Yes, we covenant in the Temple to wear the garment … something I deeply believe in and my wife and I teach to our six children and while serving as bishop to my ward members … and honored to be part of as a Salt Lake Temple ordinance worker … but it is a covenant between the individual and Heavenly Father (see: <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/garments" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.lds.org/topics/garments</a>). That covenant doesn’t give me permission to use this as a measuring stick to ‘see’ and ‘judge others’. For some it may take a little time to figure out garment wearing and each will come to their own conclusions working with God on what is right for them. What is right for me, doesn't give me permission to project that to other people. We should stop looking at a bride’s wedding dress and wonder if she is wearing her garment. It feels judgmental but also may prevent us from 'seeing' the overall goodness and beauty of a bride and/or her wedding day. Now in saying this, I’m not giving permission for members to not wear their garment or take a more casual approach. For me, my garment reminds me of the Savior, His sacrifice for me, and my Temple covenants ... and there is power in those covenants that give me great spiritual strength. </div>
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But this post isn't about the Temple garment! Rather I use it as an example to illustrate a broader challenge in the church … the culture of judging and shaming others. I meet with so many on the fringes of Mormonism and it is often this culture … not the doctrine or the commandments … that causes them to withdraw. They feel judged … so instead of coming to church and having it feel like the 'Balm of Gilead’ where they feel loved and accepted … people “walking with them” as they try to move forward in their life … they feel ‘eyes’ on them judging them. Do we have thoughts like: Is that skirt to high? Is that a double pierced ear? Why is he home from his mission early? Why is she in that political party? Is he acting on his same-sex attraction? I wonder why he didn't take the sacrament? Why didn’t her marriage work? Why doesn’t he date? Not sure about her working outside the home. Why is he not wearing a white shirt? Why does she have tattoos … doesn’t she know her body is a temple? Heard at school he/she messed up. Why hasn’t his mission call come yet? Why didn't he serve a mission? Why did he march in that cause? Asking a newly engaged couple what Temple they are being married in (partly as a way to access their 'worthiness') or when reading a wedding invitation focusing on if is a Temple marriage and perhaps not being able to equally celebrate both types of marriages? I wonder why they go skiing on Sunday every other week? Why haven't they had kids yet? What is going on with that Bishopric member with a goatee? Do we 'see' people first by their body type and how it might differ from the ideal 'media-defined' body? I don't want to be too negative here as many individuals and congregations are doing a great job ... but there is room for improvement.</div>
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We often extend this way of ‘seeing” to social media posts. Do we see that outdoor activity post and wonder if that took place on Sunday? Do we look at that glass at a restaurant dinner and wonder what’s in it? Do we look at that swimming suit and pass judgement based on our family rules? Does this way of 'seeing' actually add to our load and increase our burden to fit in and be the perfect Mormon?</div>
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Yes, I invite everyone to keep the commandments and enjoy the blessing that follow. But we need to retrain our brains and eyes to stop “seeing” this way. After meeting with so many on the margins of Mormonism and hearing their stories I now 'see' Mormonism through their eyes ... it has changed my heart and feelings towards these good people. I now try to see everyone as my equal ... a daughter or son of loving Heavenly Parents trying to do their best as they move forward. I look for their Christlike attributes, talents, the way they are contributing to society and what I can learn from them … the way I believe their Heavenly Parents 'see' them. I take them where they are and extend my love, understanding and encouragement.</div>
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I love what Elder Uchtdorf said in April 2012: "Stop It! It’s that simple. We simply must stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children. God is our Father. We are His children. We are all brothers and sisters. I don’t know exactly how to articulate this point of not judging others with sufficient eloquence, passion, and persuasion to make it stick. I can quote scripture, I can try to expound doctrine, and I will even quote a bumper sticker I recently saw. It was attached to the back of a car whose driver appeared to be a little rough around the edges, but the words on the sticker taught an insightful lesson. It read, “Don’t judge me because I sin differently than you.” </div>
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Am I someone that needs Elder Uchtdorf’s counsel? Yes, absolutely! Are you someone that needs this counsel? I will leave that up to you. The only person in a Mormon congregation that has a right to judge is the Bishop and that in a private and thoughtful visit assessing temple worthiness, helping someone return to full activity, or exploring a significant calling.</div>
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But don't I have a duty as a member of the church to "warn my neighbor"? Yes, but I feel the principal behind this concept is love. I replace the 'warn' with "love my neighbor". When my 'neighbor' feels my genuine love for them ... meaning I will 'walk with them' on any road they choose and my friendship is not 'agenda based' or conditional on any specific outcome (like commandment keeping or joining Mormonism), then my ability to lift, build, and help them increases. They trust me. They know I truly care about them ... not as part of a church assignment or fulfilling a quota ... but because I love them and see them as an equal daughter or son of Heavenly Parents. Once here, I might feel impressed to visit in a quiet moment about an item or two on from the above list such as 'do you want to talk about why you came home from your mission early', 'how do you feel about the temple' or 'I here if you want to talk about perhaps not being able to have kids'. You might ask them the story behind that tattoo and find sharing that story brings you closer together. </div>
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Yes, people need trusted friends in their life to process what is going on behind those questions ... and often those conversations are both healing and helpful. My post is not suggesting we no longer want to help others come to Christ or talk about sensitive subjects ... but open this door once love and trust are established. Its a two-way street as I need to be humble enough to accept/desire suggestions to improve ... my dear wife and also my business partner (not in Mormonism) often do this for me. Moreover for those outside of Mormonism, this might lead to invitations on how Mormonism might be their path. I'm honored to have walked several into Mormonism over the past few years. </div>
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The leaders of our church have a broader mission with their worldwide responsibility to be a 'voice of warning' to help everyone come closer to Christ and do this through means that are available to them such as conferences talks, meetings, press events, books and articles. I do that in my life by living the second great commandment 'love they neighbor as thyself'. </div>
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Some may think this not is a problem … and maybe it is less of a problem outside of Utah ... and maybe it is not between active members of our congregations … those that fit the mold … have all the right boxes checked. But if we could listen to those on the margins and really hear them we might be surprised to learn their true feelings and feel their pure hearts. They are some of the finest people I know and are often not the margins because they are 'weak', 'Satan has got hold of them', or 'aren't reading their scriptures'. One young man articulated it this way saying, “I don’t feel Mormon enough” to belong. Yikes! Everyone should feel “Mormon enough” to feel welcome, valued and loved in our congregations. Elder Uchtdorf said: “The Church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know of no sign on the doors of our meetinghouses that says, your testimony must be this tall to enter” (October 2014). Elder Causse said “In this church there are no strangers and no outcasts. There are only brothers and sister ... Our wards and our quorums do not belong to us, they belong to Jesus Christ ... Whoever enters our meetinghouses should feel at home ... Unity is not achieved by ignoring and isolating members who seem different or weaker and only associating with people who are like us.” (Oct 2013). </div>
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Big tent vs small tent Mormonism: Big tent Mormonism is where our congregations are safe, welcoming, loving and healing for everyone who considers Mormonism their spiritual home … all those that still want to “give it a go” and try and make it work. They may not ‘fit the cultural mold’, may have ‘work-in-progress’ testimonies and may (like me) working to keep the commandments. But they want to attend and feel the Spirit, worship their Savior, take the sacrament, hear uplifting talks/music, and feel the support of members figuratively putting their arms around them and say, ‘you are welcome’ … ‘I’m your friend with no ifs, ands or buts’. I believe Christ taught big tent Christianity during His ministry as he reached out to those on the margins of society, spent time with them, served them, talked about their good and invited them to join Him. Likewise Christ wants our congregations to be welcoming for all His children. The Temple is different … this is where there is a believe and behavior hurdle. I look at our congregations as the 'big tent' ... helping more people into straight narrow path that starts with entering the temple ... representing the 'gate' to the narrow path ... but the path is wide at the congregation level.</div>
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I believe deeply in Mormonism! The purpose of my post is only to make it work for more of our dear sisters and brothers ... leading to more covenant making and keeping ... the central mission of Mormonism bringing us closer to Heavenly Parents and our Savior. Further, I need those on the margins of Mormonism in my life to help me be a better follower of Christ and having them in our congregations strengthens Mormonism. I invite everyone to consider it as their path … It helps me grow closer to my Heavenly Father and my Savior … it has deeply blessed my family and me and I want to share that joy with others … and as our culture improves more can enjoy these same blessings. </div>
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**The photo of the bride is not an actual Mormon bride. It is one found on the internet that illustrates the point of this post. I choose not to post the actual photos out of privacy. The facts of the above post are accurate**</div>
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shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-22802201689050336662016-07-05T15:34:00.002-05:002016-07-05T15:34:55.248-05:00What was up in June 2016 according to my iPhone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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June went by in a whirlwind and before we knew it, it was July! Our pool finally got finished so needless to say we have been swimming in the back yard a lot. When we do, this is where you will find Brutus: right next to the pool in the shade. Trying to stay cool in the extreme heat.</div>
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June means sleeping in and lots of snuggle time with these two.</div>
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It has also meant walking at Cooper with this guy when my mom was unavailable. Brady is training for a triathlon with a friend. </div>
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My little brother and his cute wife made me an aunt again. This is sweet little Brooks. We kind of like him in case you can't tell.</div>
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This is some random picture I had on my phone from my favorite fellow. </div>
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Kiki go there braces off.</div>
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We have been trying to bust out Personal Progress. Both girls are SO close we can almost taste it.</div>
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And we have been trying to be patient about this guy coming home to us. Can't wait to hug his neck.</div>
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We got a new trampoline among other things. Brent and Brady added a basketball hoop to make it extra fun.</div>
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I can pretty much get this girl to run any errand with me with the promise of Chick fil a.</div>
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She especially had fun with Hailey, Kennedy, and Alivia in Provo at EFY.</div>
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And Reagan went to her friend Alexa's lake house with her and some other girls for Alexa's 15th birthday. She had so much fun. </div>
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This is how I roll most of the summer. Give me a good book, a cold drink, and a pool and I am happy.</div>
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We celebrated Brady's birthday with some friends</div>
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More fun with the twins at In and Out. I think this was after Sheri and I had picked them up from Six Flags.</div>
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We started off the month with a flag football 2nd place win for our division. Not bad for a bunch of rookies who had never played before but they sure know how to have fun.</div>
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The weather has been so fantastic. I took this one night on my porch while I sat and did homework. Brent was at the pond fishing.</div>
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Elder Argyle continues to do what he does best. Lots of success in the mission field.</div>
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And he got the chance to meet Elder Holland. Pretty much his favorite Apostle. And mine.</div>
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Are you allowed to have favorite apostles? Well if you are, he is definitely the favorite. Tanner had a cool experience when Elder Holland was talking to the missionaries. He asked a question that no one seemed to be answering with the specific answer he was looking for. Tanner said after twenty or so tries he raised his hand and answered and it was exactly what Elder Holland was looking for. After that he kept referring back to Tanner while he spoke. It was a good moment for Elder Argyle.</div>
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Kiki and I got to sneak away one night and go to her favorite spot, Torchy's Tacos. </div>
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We (Reynolds PTO board) put on a pretty amazing Teacher Appreciation week at Reynolds Middle School if I must say so myself. Man! that was a big project.</div>
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And so was this: The Prosper Annual prayer breakfast that Prosper Ladies Association sponsors. </div>
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My family was great to me on Mother's Day. I wish I had thought to take a picture of my traditional Mother's Day corsage. It was really beautiful.</div>
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But of course the best part of Mother's day for me was seeing that missionary boy of ours who comes home in a few short months.</div>
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The sun is shining and that means that the end of school is just around the corner.<br />
These boys went swimming early in the month. </div>
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We went to Lindsey's house one day for a family get together and Lindsey let McKinley try on her tacky formal that she ordered for a party. Wow. That is all I can say. Just wow.</div>
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The girls had fun at their 2016 cheer party. All three squads were there and they learned who their "big sisters" were.</div>
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This made me smile. My dad's watch on my little man one day at church. </div>
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McKinley's JV cheer squad at the spring football scrimmage.</div>
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And we rounded out the month with dinner with some of our favorite people. The Hennefers and Jettons who we have known...well.....forever. There are few things better than ole friends.</div>
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I am grateful for a little breather from Institute and not having to prepare a lesson each week but I really do miss my class. I have been so touched by the sweet notes and emails they have sent me. I also am feeling good that I have passed the PTO President baton to a friend (at least for the next school year). I will still serve on the board and run the big fundraiser for the year but I am not in charge. I also have finished my service on the board of the Prosper Ladies Association which gives me more free time. I will be the new vice chair for benevolence and perhaps will head that up next year when my friend Tiffany rolls off as Benevolence chair. <br />
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Jensen only has two semesters of school left and then she graduates. It sounds like she wants to go to graduate school. I am crossing my fingers for BYU Provo. She sang in the devotional yesterday with her women's glee choir. She looked so happy. I know she is really enjoying her roommates and her frisbee team. She loves BYUi. <br />
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The three babies at home basically can't wait for the end of school. They need a chance to enjoy some free time. They worked hard at school this year. Both have been without phones now for quite a while (for different reasons) and I have to say I have enjoyed sending more time with them. You see so much more of their faces when they aren't staring at a small screen all the time!<br />
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Needless to say, we are excited for Tanner to come home. We are counting the days. 52 as I write this. He already told me he can't wait to go shopping for casual clothes and eat my cheesecake!<br />
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Brent is doing really well at work and seems to really enjoy his job and his new supervisor. He as in a car accident in April and suffered some pretty significant trauma to his leg. He went to an orthopedic specialist but there is not much they can do for him. He has been limping around for the last two months. I hope he gets better soon. </div>
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Happy June from the Argyles.</div>
<br />shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-47998458212452997322016-05-31T20:22:00.002-05:002016-05-31T20:22:31.914-05:00summing up a life in one line on granite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been dreading the purchase of my father's tombstone for months. It is sort of the final act for someone you love, you know? Its hard to sum up a life in one line on granite. Its hard to pay tribute to someone who made a huge impact on your life in such a final, salutory way. If I am being honest I have been procrastinating it for 6 months or so. It has been on my to-do list since October. Then yesterday for memorial day my uncle's wife posted this on Facebook. I couldn't believe it! This is exactly what I had decided to put on his headstone: "Beloved son, brother, father". I just couldn't bring myself to make the phone call. </div>
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It is so fitting. Because those are the roles he enjoyed most in chronological order. And he was BELOVED of us, the ones to which he fulfilled those roles. I could not figure out whether or not I had perhaps filled out the paperwork during those first weeks after my father's passing? It was all a blur. After all, I knew I had walked through the plans and made the arrangements in a complete daze. There really wasn't another explanation for it. Because those were the EXACT words I was planning to put on the stone. I loved the picture that was placed on the stone too.</div>
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Last night I finally got in touch with my uncle - my Father's brother. It was him. He did it. He had some ideas about some important things he wanted to place on the back of the headstone. Meaningful things. Things that would have made him smile. He also put a lot of thought into what to put on the front. He had crafted a tombstone 15 years ago for his own father and he wanted to honor my father in a similar way. </div>
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I am so relieved. So comforted that this no longer hangs over me. I recognize my Heavenly Father's hand in this and am grateful to Him for intervening in this way for me. It is as if He walked these last 10 months right by my side and then helped prompt my uncle to do the hardest part for me. </div>
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shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-37011591981671340092016-05-04T19:18:00.000-05:002016-05-04T19:18:00.323-05:00Grateful<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I wanted to write them down so I can remember this moment in time.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">I'm grateful for my husband. He is the yin to my yang. he is not perfect. But neither am I. We complete each other.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>I am grateful for each and every one of my kids. They are as different as can be but I love them exactly the way they are.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b>I am grateful for the parents that raised me. I obviously have been missing my dad these last 9 months. My parents aren't perfect but I turned out pretty okay and I feel like they helped mold me into who I am. I am grateful that one of the last things I told my Father (at Father's Day) was that he was the best father for me. I know it meant a lot to him because I found that card in his living room many months later after he passed away. I am also enjoying my weekly walks with my mom. I enjoy her company and think of her as a good friend.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;"><b>I am grateful that my missionary comes home in less than 100 days!</b></span></div>
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These boys have had a blast playing flag football together. This was taken at a birthday party for one of the boys. </div>
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Our missionary continues to teach and baptize. He is in a more remote area and has requested that I not send anymore care packages as he needs to start paring down to come home. He also mentioned that he is so far away from the mission home that sometimes he doesn't get package very timely. I think he feels a little detached which is challenging but he is holding up and committed to finishing strong in the mission field. Only three more months and I get to hug his neck. One more FaceTime too! Mother's day is only about 5 weeks away!</div>
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I am so grateful for these fun friends in our neighborhood. They are all such good boys and they are always together! These were taken at Pole position which is a race car attraction.</div>
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Brady and Brent have loved the MAVS tix I got them for Christmas and were thrilled when I told them that I have renewed our tix for next season. Brady was on cloud nine meeting these guys and being able to go early and watch them warm up and get autographs.</div>
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Reagan and McKinley both tried out for cheerleader. Reagan made freshman cheer for next year and McKinley made JV.</div>
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March was a blast in NYC during spring break. What an experience!</div>
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We came home from NYC and hosted a super fun birthday party for this cute 14 year old girl and 16 of her closest friends.</div>
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After tryouts ( and finding out that they both made it) we celebrated with In N out burger.</div>
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Prepped our college girl for General Conference with a General Conference survival kit. It ha snacks, a journal, and those fun adult coloring books. I always pay attention better when I have all of those things, don't you?</div>
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Kiki went to the annual cheer banquet with some of her friends on the squad.</div>
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And Reagan got braces!</div>
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Jensen is still loving school so much that I think we are only going to be able to talk her into coming home this summer for about a week (when Tanner comes home). Brent has been busy at work and loving the company he works for. He is progressing nicely with some potential clients. I love having him work from home. We get an occasional lunch date every so often although he is REALLY busy. Being in the Stake Presidency has kept him busy so it is nice that he is here when the kids come home from school and for me to spend more time with him during the day since he is gone so much on Sundays and several week nights a week. I continue to trudge along with my course work in grad school. I still have a straight A record and love my human sexuality class. It has been really interesting. Next I study aging and emotional health among the elderly. I am also finishing up my first year of teaching institute. I really love the balance it brings to all the other reading I have to do each week. I am learning so much! I don't know that I am the best teacher in the world but attendance is good and I am making some wonderful new friendships. I really love it. </div>
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That is about all. Happy April!</div>
shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-51984351808447341972016-03-24T14:44:00.005-05:002016-03-24T14:45:04.033-05:00I pretty much adore this girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u>Fourteen things I absolutely adore about this girl.</u></div>
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1. She is quick with a compliment</div>
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2. perky</div>
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3. a good friend</div>
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4. sensitive to others</div>
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5. affectionate to her siblings and parents</div>
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6. applies herself to school work</div>
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8. self deprecating at times, which means she doesn't take herself too seriously</div>
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10. knows how to turn the other cheek </div>
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11. she is an early to bed, early to rise girl (Sometimes at 8:30 we will be looking of her and realize that she has put herself to bed)</div>
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12. She has a great sense of self</div>
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13. confident without being arrogant</div>
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14. She has a heart of Gold.</div>
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Is there a better way to spend your 14th birthday then with friends?</div>
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Maybe. How about rock climbing, bowling, bumper cars, ropes courses, laser tag, video games, all you can eat pizza and cake with 15 of your closest friends?</div>
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That sounds like pretty much the perfect way to celebrate turning the big 1-4. </div>
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<br />shahnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05717964595885488427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319343125866306553.post-46079374356220281102016-03-14T10:21:00.002-05:002016-03-14T10:23:41.221-05:00NYC 2016<div style="text-align: center;">
We decided to spend Spring Break 2016 in New York City and it was a blast. We could not have ordered better weather. A friend who was there the week before us said it was absolutely freezing when she was there but it was in the high 60s and low 70's for us.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brady knew it was a good sign when the Boston Airport where we had a quick layover had a Vineyard Vines in it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisterly love while waiting to leave on a jet plane.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By FAR, Kiki's favorite part of the trip was visiting the Guitar Center in Times Square. That was pretty cool, I must admit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stayed right on times square. Our hotel was across the street from where they were showing "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway and right next door to Chicago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the beautiful Manhattan high rises right next to Central Park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reagan saw Voldomort at the Met. :O)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brady was fairly traumatized by all the naked statues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lady Liberty was amazing up close and personal.</td></tr>
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We took a ferry ride throughout the five Burroughs. It was so interesting and such a beautiful way to explore the city. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids were dying to find the Balto statue in Central Park so Reagan googled mapped and away we went. He is right outside the entrance for the central park zoo, by the way.</td></tr>
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February was a great month for the Argyles. Brent and Brady got tickets to several MAVS games and three of them were in February. As "season pass holders" (sounds way more impressive than it is) they get to go early and watch the MAVS warm up. They also get a chance to get autographs. Brady has really loved that. </div>
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Here he is in a pic with Dwight Powell. </div>
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Elder Argyle is doing great. he only has about 5 months left and then he comes home. I got him set up to go to BYUi in the fall and stay and go to school year round ( he wants to since he has not had any college yet). We got his housing set up too. It is going to be so good to have him home. I am trying to figure out vacations this week so we can do something fun once he gets home and before he leaves for Idaho.</div>
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Had a fun outing with my gal pal, Sheri. Love this girl.</div>
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McKinley got highlights.</div>
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....and her learner's permit to drive.</div>
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She also was part of the competition team at Prosper High School and they got second place.</div>
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Brady and I made this cute banner for the fireplace for Valentines Day.</div>
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These gals went to a dance and for a fun night out.</div>
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Brady had to have this banner for his room - we redecorated it this month.</div>
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Sent some care packages off to our favorite college gal valentine </div>
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McKinley had fun ice skating with pals </div>
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and the basketball team got together to celebrate a birthday.</div>
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We also registered the girls for EFY this summer and started prepping for cheer tryouts which are coming up in March. We are making plans for Spring Break - hoping to do something fun. We are also getting passports so that we can go somewhere great this Summer. March is also when our gal Reagan turns 14! We are looking forward to another great month.</div>
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I will never look at the word transformation the same again. These last few months have truly re-defined this word for me. I wish I had before pictures to show you this home. Words can not describe it. Imagine 40 year old carpet that had never been professionally cleaned and had homed indoor dogs (usually multiple dogs at one time), layers of dust on everything in the home that were inches thick. Imagine peeled walled paper everywhere, the stench of mildew, toilets and showers that were permanently stained. The saddest part of all was the stuff. It was wall to wall stuff from one sid of the house to the other. We don't know where my father slept in this house. He had two beds but they were both covered in stuff. We suspect he slept every night in a chair in the living room. It makes me so sad to think about. The first few times I came to his house to take care of his final wishes, it zapped me of all of my energy. I felt total anxiety. Not that I had to be there but that he had lived like this. In complete filth. It was so physically draining. It took two days of a three man team of professionals just to clear out all the junk (and that was after a month of us going in and getting anything of value out). </div>
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She is beautiful. She sold within 3 hours of putting her on the market and for the asking price plus. She is going to be the home of a young newlywed couple that is hoping to start adding to their family. What was once such a sad, depressing environment has become one filled with hope and promise. It has been transformed. I am grateful for these past few months that I have had the chance to be a part of it. You can not imagine the amount of work it took but change can absolutely be transformative. And not just for houses.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finished the first of many projects around the house. This one is my favorite spot: our family picture wall.</span></div>
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We had TONS of family time (and I couldn't get enough of it) due to all the ice on the roads. School, seminary, and church were cancelled which meant we had nowhere to go and nothing pressing to do but watch netflix and sip hot chocolate in front of the fire.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We celebrated Reagan's 13th birthday by painting over the flowers on her walls and redecorating her room.</span></div>
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<b style="color: #351c75; font-size: xx-large;">April:</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brent started his new job and Jensen enjoyed 7 wonderful weeks in London, Ireland, and Scotland in BYUi's study abroad program.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;">May:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrated 20 years of being a mother to these crazies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Celebrated 26 years married to my soul mate and best friend.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My father died very unexpectedly when he went in to have surgery and never woke up. It was a devastating loss.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Jensen started her junior year at BYUi, I started teaching adult institute, we became completely debt free, and started some long awaited home renovations.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>McKinley went to her first homecoming dance with some super sweet friends.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Our ward split, we enjoyed fall break in Grapevine at Great Wolf Lodge while I made some renovations to my father's house so we could prep it for sale, and went to ALOT of football games to watch cheerleaders.</span></b></div>
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<b>The best thing about December was the hour long Facetime we got with our boy. What a wonderful way to spend Christmas.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2015 has been so good to us. We are grateful for all of the blessings, comfort, strength, support, friendships, memories, and love we have been able to enjoy this year, recognizing our Heavenly Father's hand in all of it. We hope to offer the same to others in 2016.</b></span></div>
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We took the cute little Golden boys out for a fun outing to the SeaLife Aquarium for their birthdays. I think they loved it.<br />
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Elder Argyle's November care package had a superhero theme. Only six more of these as of today and this boy will be home in his Momma's arms. <br />
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We spent Thanksgiving break in Grapevine working on getting my dad's house ready for sale so we booked a room at the Great wolf lodge and went to dinner one night at our FAVORITE joint, Joe's crab shack. We love that place. It was a nice distraction from an emotionally heart wrenching week. Selling your late father's house isn't my favorite thing in the world.</div>
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These cute girls went to dinner before the November Stake Dance.</div>
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Celebrated a certain someone's 15th birthday.</div>
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Sometimes my heart is just filled with gratitude for sweet girls who are good friends to my daughters.<br />
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Man I love this kid. But he is growing up a little too fast for my liking. I look at him and I marvel at how much he looks like his older brother. I hope he turns out as fantastic of a kid as Tanner. So far my chances look good. He makes my heart smile.</div>
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Thanks Kim Christensen photography for the pictures.</div>
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My friend Whitney is part of Mercy River and this is their blog.</div>
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http://www.mercyrivermusic.com/about/</div>
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Brooke posted this earlier this month and I just loved it. I, too, have struggled with loving Christmas as I should and not getting caught up in the busyness of it all.</div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>After all, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">YOU</span> are the one responsible for creating most of the magic. There are parties, dinners, concerts, presents, food, neighbor gifts, Christmas cards…not to mention the normal demands of sports, recitals, homework, sick kids, and laundry. You’re up later than usual to get it all done, when what you really want to do is eat fudge, watch the Hallmark channel, and feel jolly.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>Numb from the busyness. And sad – even a little guilty – that I don’t really “feel” Christmas (other than feeling “rage” because my Amazon Prime package took 3 days to arrive, or feeling “panicked” because I can’t find the Lego set I strategically hid 5 weeks ago).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>We’re so worried about everyone else around us soaking in the spirit of Christ - but what about <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">US</span>? Do we let Christmas “<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.14?lang=eng#13" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">act upon</a>” us and miss an important connection? Do we just expect that Christmas will bring the feelings we long for? Just like every other part of the holidays, these moments (often) need to be CREATED. Because of a busy December schedule, we need to intentionally act and create space for ourselves to have worshipful, reflective moments. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>But what if you <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">create a tradition just for YOU</span>? Something that fills your bucket. Something that doesn’t include other schedules or uncooperative kids. There are no parties, no extra baking, no surfing Pinterest for ideas. This tradition is just yours. Something that you know will bring you peace and help you reflect when you need it most.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>I discovered the power of a personal tradition a few years ago, during a particularly busy Christmas season. It was two days before Christmas and I realized I hadn’t really felt at peace that entire month. So that night I sent everyone to bed (including my husband) and I grabbed my favorite Christmas book and a hot chocolate, and I curled up by my tree and read. That night became so special to me, completely changing the way I felt that season. I decided to repeat it each year. No matter how busy or chaotic the holidays get, I know I’ll get my time. Come Christmas Eve-Eve, I know I’ll have MY MOMENT to ponder, feel, reflect, and cry by the tree. It’s one of my favorite parts about Christmas. My own tradition.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>During the chaos of the season, I look forward to that peaceful, private time. I know it’s coming, and that helps fuel me through the month.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>Your personal tradition might look different than mine. You might gather special Christmas songs, stick them on a playlist, and go for a bundled walk. You might jump in the car and take a solitary drive as you listen to the Christmas story or a devotional. Maybe there’s a certain movie, or book that you know will bring the spirit. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is just about you and Jesus</span>. Find what brings you peace, and stick with that tradition each year.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>Creating a personal “come to Jesus” tradition for yourself will GREATLY enhance the peace of your Christmas season. We could all use less chaos and more inner stillness as we run around like frantic elves. Try to intentionally create space for few more reflective, quiet moments. Even if your “silent nights” are few and far between.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>(As a tribute to mothers who often don’t see many (but desperately need more) silent nights, we created this music video. Moms, in the words of Elder Holland, “You are doing better than you think you are!” Enjoy! xo)</b></span></div>
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Maybe it is because he called last month when he was in urgent care and I heard his voice.</div>
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Maybe it is because he gets to call next month for Christmas!</div>
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Maybe it is because the older McKinley gets, the more she reminds me of him. (She is a female version of Tanner- all that sarcasm and sass and absolutely no filter yet really really cute)</div>
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It might be because we are starting to make summer plans and I realized that we would need to work around his homecoming at the end of July. We only have 8.5 more months before he comes home.</div>
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Maybe it is because I have been finding pictures of him on the "missionary Mamas" Facebook page every once in awhile.</div>
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I think it might have something to do with the fact that his birthday is this month.</div>
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And that I have been thinking about what I could put in his Christmas care package.</div>
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I am so incredibly proud of the work he is doing and the man he is becoming.</div>
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And that he is still my same old Tanner.</div>
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I feel so blessed to call him "Son". He will always be one of my dearest friends. Tanner, I hope you get to read this. Love, Mom.</div>
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Her love of reading</div>
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Her smile</div>
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Her love of learning</div>
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Her strong will</div>
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Her conviction</div>
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Her humility</div>
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Her meekness</div>
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Her forgiving heart</div>
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Her kind nature</div>
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Her keen mind</div>
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Her desire to do right</div>
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Her helpfulness</div>
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She is amazingly responsible</div>
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She is a hard worker</div>
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I have never heard her say an unking thing about anyone</div>
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Her love of music</div>
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She is cheerful. Always.</div>
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She loves a good movie, like me. :O)</div>
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She is a romantic at heart</div>
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She is a nurturer.</div>
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She is a good example to all of us in her family.</div>
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Good morning, my beloved sisters. I have been thinking about you for months now, and it is pure
joy to be with you today. I’m at a loss, though, to know how to do justice to our theme, so I hope
you have come ready to receive revelation, because the Spirit will teach you what you are ready
to learn.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Our theme is filled with hope and power: “For the Lord God is a sun and shield: The Lord will
give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">1
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A dear friend who knew I felt drawn this morning to focus on the grace of Jesus Christ but was
wrestling with this message, sent me an email that I’m sure she meant to be helpful. Here is what
she wrote: “Here is what I hope you cover in your talk. What is grace? How do I gain access to
it? What difference does grace make in my life? Can it help me with loneliness, with overeating,
with bad relationships, with weaknesses and temptations, with insecurity, with heartache and
stress? Can it help me with my husband? Is grace always present, or do I have to do something to
get it? Is it a feeling? How can I tell when grace is helping me? Okay, those are the questions I
want you to answer.”
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I responded with one line: “Are you sure that’s </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">all </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">you want to know?”
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Her email led me to ask another friend what she wanted to understand about grace. “To tell you
the truth,” she said, “those TV evangelists have wrecked that word for me. I almost feel disloyal
to the restored gospel even talking about grace. I mean, do we believe in grace?”
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I then asked a dear friend who’s serving as a stake Relief Society president to ask her presidency
what they wished the women in their stake understood about grace. This presidency is a
spectacular quartet of women who have logged decades of service among them. And yet after a
long discussion they said, “We don’t think we know enough about grace to even know what to
ask.”
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The disturbing irony in all of these comments is that THE CENTRAL, most compelling, most
life-changing message of all time is that Jesus Christ already triumphed over sin, death, hell, and
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">every kind of misery. Surely there is </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">nothing </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">our Father is more eager for us to understand than
the breathtaking scope of the Atonement of His Son and the power the Atonement makes
available to us. Because the key to unlocking the power of His covenant daughters is learning to
unlock the power of Jesus Christ.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">With this truth in mind, let’s consider four of my friend’s questions. First, what is grace? Second,
what difference can grace make in our lives? Third, how does the Savior make His power
available to us? And fourth, what must we do to gain access to that power?
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Question Number One: What is grace? My father had many virtues. He served faithfully in the
Church his entire life. I doubt he ever missed home teaching in 60 years, though he had to drive a
hundred miles a month. My earliest testimony of priesthood power came from him. After his
death, we heard story after story about his quiet generosity. And my father’s word was gold. But
my dad had an Achilles heel—a temper he never conquered. We knew he loved us, but we often
bore the brunt of his anger. Sustaining a loving relationship with him was a struggle for me.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">One afternoon a few days before he died, I was sitting at his bedside as he slept. Suddenly I
found myself asking the Lord to forgive him for years of angry outbursts. As I prayed, something
unexplainable happened to me. In an instant, I felt decades of hurt simply fall away. The feeling
was spiritual but it was also tangible. I could remember his anger, but I couldn’t feel any of the
pain. It was gone. It was beauty for ashes.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">It was sweet.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">That is grace. The amazing power of grace. No earthly remedy could have done for me what the
Savior did. It was the redeeming power of Jesus Christ that prompted me to pray for my father
and even gave me the words to say; and it was His healing power that healed a lifetime of
wounds.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The scriptures explain what I experienced. In Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, most of those he
saw either never entered the “covenant path” our leaders described in the General Women’s
Meeting last month,</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">or they got lost somewhere along the way.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">But one group held fast to the
iron rod, pressed forward to the tree and partook of the fruit, and heeded not those who mocked
them.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">5 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The fruit made them happy, and it filled their souls with “exceedingly great joy.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">6 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">It was
“sweet above all that is sweet.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">7
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">What is this fruit that Nephi said was “most desirable above all things”?</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">8 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The fruit is the
Atonement, which is </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">the </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">most tangible evidence of the Lord’s incomprehensible love for us.
Grace is the power that flows from the Atonement and is what the Savior uses to continue to
manifest His love for us. The Bible Dictionary says that grace is “divine means of help or
strength, given through the bounteous . . . love of Jesus Christ. . . . [G]race is an enabling
power.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">9 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we’ve earned it, but because He
loves us perfectly. That is why grace is sweet. It was grace that I experienced at my father’s
bedside.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">To tell you the truth, I’ve never really liked the word sweet. I love things that taste sweet—let’s
be clear about that. But the word sweet has always seemed a little weak and insipid. When I was
a student at BYU, being called a “sweet spirit” was not necessarily a compliment. But I have
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">come to understand that when we feel unexplainable peace or hope, love or strength, when we
want to linger somewhere because the feeling is just so sweet, the Lord is manifesting His grace.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Years ago, I heard a speaker at this conference say that when she saw the word grace in the
scriptures, she always substituted the word power.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">10 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Her counsel helped me make sense of many
scriptures for the first time. When we talk about the grace of Jesus Christ, we are talking about
His power—power that enables us to do things we simply could not do on our own.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Savior has “all power” in heaven and on earth.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">11 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He has power to cleanse, forgive, and
redeem us; power to heal us of weakness, illness, and heartache; power to inspire us; power to
conquer Satan and overcome the flesh; power to work miracles; power to deliver us from
circumstances we can’t escape ourselves; power over death; and power to strengthen us. When
the Apostle Paul said, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me,”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">12 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">he was
describing grace.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Grace is divine power that enables us to handle things we can’t figure out, can’t do, can’t
overcome, or can’t manage on our own. We have access to this power because Jesus Christ, who
was already a God, condescended to endure the bitterness of a fallen world and experience all
physical and spiritual pain.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">13
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Last month in general conference Elder David A. Bednar taught that “the Savior has suffered not
just for our sins and iniquities—but also for our physical pains and anguish, our weaknesses and
shortcomings, our fears and frustrations, our disappointments and discouragement, our regrets
and remorse, our despair and desperation, the injustices and the inequities that we experience,
and the emotional distresses that beset us. There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no
anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the
Savior did not experience first.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">14
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Because Jesus Christ atoned, His grace is available to us every minute of every hour of every
day. It is this power that ultimately enables us to do what we came to earth to do. Grace is divine
enabling power.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Question Number Two: What difference can grace make in our lives?
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The last few months have been a little intense for me, and somehow I managed to make more
commitments than I could handle. Ever done that? One Saturday, I worked all day trying to make
a dent in some looming deadlines before joining my family at the temple for a niece’s
endowment. As I walked into the chapel and sat down, the tears started and they would not stop.
Exhaustion and the sheer fear of letting people down had me totally undone. I opened the
scriptures and through tears happened to read this verse: “The Lord God showeth us our
weakness”—and boy, was He showing me mine—“that we may know that it is by his grace . . .
that we have power to do these things.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">15
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">What the Nephites in this verse had power to do was work miracles, and boy, that got my
attention because I needed a miracle. Because of the Nephites’ faith, they could command in the
name of Jesus and the trees and mountains and waves of the sea would obey them.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">16 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">As I
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">pondered these verses, my mind raced over countless times the Lord had helped me. I felt a surge
of faith and knew He would help me again. Faith unlocks divine power. For the first time in
weeks, I felt peace. Peace from the Prince of Peace. It was sweet.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We all know what “overwhelmed” feels like. Mortality gives us a visceral experience with the
reality that without the Lord, we are nothing.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">17 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">If there are times when you think, “I can’t handle
my children, or my checkbook, or my illness, or the urge to eat brownies at midnight, or the lack
of a husband, or the lack of a good husband, or a family who doesn’t appreciate me, one more
day,” you’re not alone. The Savior’s divine empathy is perfect, so He knows how to help us. He
rarely moves the mountains in front of us, but He always helps us climb them.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Because of Him, you don’t have to confront grief or insecurity or an addiction alone. With His
help, you can resist temptation. With His help, you can change, forgive those who’ve hurt you,
and start over. With His help, you can become your true self. With His help, your capacity and
energy can increase. With His help, you can be happy again. The Savior promised, “My grace is
sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before
me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">18
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We are among the “weak things” the Savior is talking about. His grace can change our very
nature and over time transform us from who we are into who we can become.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">What difference can grace make in our lives? It can make all the difference!
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Question Number Three: HOW does the Savior make His power available to us? Elder Bruce R.
McConkie said that “if it were not for the grace of God, there would be nothing—no creation, no
fall, no mortal probation, no atonement, no redemption, no immortality, no eternal life. It is
God’s grace that underlies all things, [and] . . . that makes all things possible. Without it there
would be nothing; with it there is everything.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">19
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Elder Jeffrey R. Holland added this clarity: “Much of the miraculous help we find in the gospel
is just that—a miracle from heaven, the power of divine priesthood, the attendance of angels
administering to us through a very thin veil. These are gifts from God, manifestations of His
grace.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">20
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Every divine gift and every spiritual privilege that gives us access to the power of heaven comes
from Christ or through Christ or because of Christ. We owe everything to Him and to our Father
in Heaven, including the privileges of receiving the gift and power of the Holy Ghost; of
receiving personal revelation and gifts of the Spirit; of being endowed in the temple with
knowledge and priesthood power; of learning the “mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the
knowledge of God”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">21</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">; of having angels on our right and on our left;</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">22 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of receiving all the
blessings of the Atonement; and of receiving eternal life, the “greatest of all the gifts of God.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">23
</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We owe every divine gift and all access to divine power to the grace of Jesus Christ.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Eliza R. Snow said that we, as Latter-day Saint women, “have greater and higher privileges than
any other females upon the face of the earth.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">24 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I stand with Eliza on this. If there were time, we
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">could talk about how grace is involved in giving us access to the Holy Ghost, to angels, and to
countless gifts of the Spirit.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">25
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">But briefly let’s consider the one privilege which we are the most likely as women to overlook—
and that is the privilege of having access to priesthood power.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">26 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Too many of our sisters think we
don’t have this privilege. But that is not true. Women who have been endowed in the temple
have as much access to priesthood power for their own lives as ordained men do.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Four key points underscore this truth:
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">First, priesthood keys are the manner through which the Lord authorizes the use of His power,
for both women and men. Second, there are distinctions between priesthood keys, priesthood
authority, and priesthood power. Priesthood keys are required to authorize ordinances, priesthood
authority is required to perform ordinances, and priesthood power is available to all who
worthily receive ordinances and keep the associated covenants. Third, both men and women who
serve under the direction of priesthood keys serve with divine authority.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">27 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Just last month in
general conference, Elder Dallin H. Oaks said:
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“We are not accustomed to speaking of women having the authority of the priesthood in their
Church callings, but what other authority can it be? . . . Whoever functions in an office or calling
from one who holds priesthood keys, exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his
assigned duties.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">28
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">And finally, fourth, men and women have equal access to the Lord’s highest spiritual privileges.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the house of the Lord. Elder M. Russell Ballard declared
that “when men and women go to the temple, they are both endowed with the same power,
which is priesthood power. . . . Access to the power and the blessings of the priesthood is
available to all of God’s children.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">29 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Though we as women are not ordained to an office in the
priesthood, in the temple we are endowed with priesthood power and we are also endowed with
knowledge to know how to use that power.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">30
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We have other privileges as well. We aren’t required to be ordained to enter the House of the
Lord and officiate in priesthood ordinances there, though men are. Further, as already mentioned,
when we serve in any capacity under the direction of those who hold priesthood keys, we have
full access to the power that flows through those keys, just as men do. We as women never lack
for divine authority. Further still, God’s highest ordinances are available only to a man and
woman together. In this single doctrinal provision, God indicates His respect for the distinctive
but vitally interconnected roles of both men and women. And finally, women have claim to all
blessings that emanate from the priesthood.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Again, from Elder McConkie: “Where spiritual things are concerned, as pertaining to all of the
gifts of the Spirit, with reference to the receipt of revelation, the gaining of testimonies, and the
seeing of visions, in all matters that pertain to godliness and holiness . . . in all these things men
and women stand in a position of absolute equality before the Lord.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">31
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sisters, we may not presently have the answers to all questions. But we do know, as Lehi told his
son Jacob, that “all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">32
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Most importantly for you and I to consider and try to understand the import of, we live in the
dispensation of the fulness of times, when no spiritual blessings are being withheld from the
earth.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">33 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This means that no women living anytime, anywhere have had greater access to divine
power than we do. If we seek for a lifetime, we won’t plumb the depth of power and breadth of
spiritual privileges the Lord has given us. Through His grace, He has made His highest, holiest
spiritual privileges available to us. That is our doctrine. That is the truth.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Question Number Four: What must WE do to gain access to the Savior’s power? I recently
visited Harvard and honestly felt just a little smarter walking across the campus. But later that
day, I had an interesting experience when I went to the Boston Temple, and the contrast between
that elite university and the Lord’s house, which is the institution of highest learning, was
striking. Everything felt different! The world’s finest education simply pales when compared
with the tutelage of God.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">34
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Elder Dallin H. Oaks said that “in contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to
</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">know </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">become </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">something.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">35 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sisters, our
access to divine power hinges upon who we are becoming.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I doubt we quote any scripture on grace more often than Nephi’s, that “it is by grace that we are
saved, after all we can do.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">36 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">As covenant women, I’m pretty sure we have a tendency to zoom
right in on the “after all </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">we </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">can do” part of the grace-and-works equation, but then wonder how
we can possibly do more than we already are—though we’re pretty sure whatever we’re doing
isn’t enough. Does that ring true to anybody?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This scripture we quote so often is not about sequence, and it is not about feverishly working our
way through an exhaustive list of good works. Jesus Christ is the only one to walk this earth and
actually do all that could be done.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Instead, doing all we can do is about the direction we’re headed and what kind of women we are
becoming. Now there is nothing simple about this, because it isn’t natural for the natural woman
to want to do good or be good. But the Lord’s Atonement and His gospel are all about change,
and particularly a change of heart. If we are willing to yield to “the enticings of the Holy Spirit,”
to stay on the covenant path, to hold tightly to the iron rod, and to partake of the fruit again and
again, it is possible to put “off the natural [woman] . . . through the atonement of Christ”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">37 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and be
transformed from fallen women riddled with faults into true disciples. “Doing all we can do” is
all about discipleship.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Discipleship requires at least three things of us: first, coming to love the Lord more than we love
anything in the world; second, experiencing a change of heart so that we have no “disposition to
do evil, but to do good continually”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">38</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">—which does not mean we no longer make mistakes, it just
means we don’t want to; and third, behaving like true followers. The road to discipleship leads
away from all forms of ungodliness.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">39 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">That means resisting the gravitational pull of the world
and shedding the attitudes, appetites and behaviors of the natural woman. As Elder Neal A.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Maxwell put it, “Personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a
willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">40
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">At the heart of becoming disciples is </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">doing </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">what we promise to do every time we partake of the
sacrament—which is to “always remember” the Lord.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">41 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This means remembering Him when we
choose what media we’re willing to expose our spirits to. It means remembering Him in how we
spend our time and when choosing between a steady diet of pop culture or the Word of God. It
means remembering Him in the middle of conflict or when temptation looms. It means
remembering Him when critics attack His Church and mock truth. It means remembering that we
have taken His name upon us.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">42
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Now none of us have mastered this, but it is our quest, because conversion to the Lord requires
immersion in His gospel. We baptize by immersion, not by sprinkling. A “sprinkling” of the
gospel will never lead to conversion.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">If we constantly immerse ourselves in a fallen world, how far can we really expect to progress in
this life? Now I am not suggesting that there aren’t fun and even inspiring opportunities all
around us. I love ballgames, including a whole lot of ballgames played right here, and 4-wheelers
and travel and snowshoeing, and Broadway plays with the best of them. But mortality is a short-
term proposition.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">43 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">None of us are going to stay here very long. Doesn’t it make sense to devote
as much energy as possible to things we can actually take with us into the eternities? To
covenants, eternal relationships, our knowledge of truth, and to the blessings that come from
devotion to the Lord? And those blessings are remarkable.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Elder D. Todd Christofferson related an experience of two sister missionaries serving in Croatia
who were headed home late one evening after an appointment. He told the story this way:
“Several men on the trolley made crude comments and became rather menacing. Feeling
threatened, the sisters got off the trolley at the next stop just as the doors closed so no one could
follow them. Having avoided that problem, they realized they were in a place unknown to either
of them. As they turned to ask for help, they saw a woman. . . . She knew where they could find
another trolley to take them home and invited them to follow her. On the way [to that trolley]
they had to pass a bar with patrons sitting along the sidewalk. . . . These men also appeared
threatening. Nevertheless, the two young women had the distinct impression that the men could
not see them. They walked by, apparently invisible to [the men] . . . . When the sisters and their
guide reached the stop, the trolley they needed was just arriving. They turned to thank the
woman, but she was nowhere to be seen.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">44 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">How would we explain that sequence of events—a
remarkable sequence of events for those two sister missionaries? The discipleship of two sister
missionaries gave them access to the Lord’s protecting grace.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Discipleship is not easy, but it’s easier than not becoming a disciple. Paraphrasing President
Howard W. Hunter, if our lives are centered on Christ, nothing can ever go permanently wrong.
But if they’re not centered on Christ, nothing can ever go permanently right.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">45
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">As disciples, we can ask for more energy, more revelation, more patience, more self-discipline,
more hope, more love, more healing, more happiness. We can ask for miracles, for freedom from
pain, and for the desire to forgive. We can ask for more faith and for help in becoming better
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">disciples.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">46 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We can ask for angels to walk with us, because if we live up to our privileges, angels
can’t be restrained from being our associates.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">47
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Lord is not saving up His grace, His power, for one dramatic display at the Final Judgment,
nor is grace something that kicks in at the end of an ordeal. It is there from the moment we
exercise even a “particle of faith” and ask for His help.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">48 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jesus Christ is Alpha and Omega,
literally the beginning and the end,</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">49 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which means He’ll stick with us from start to finish.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Not long ago, I was assigned to make a sensitive presentation to a group of senior General
Authorities, which is just always a little nerve-wracking—let me just be honest about it. I
prepared the best I could and sought the Lord’s help, and even asked if angels who cared about
that presentation could accompany me to the meeting. Well, things went better that day than I
expected, and that should have tipped me off. As I walked back to my office thinking, “That
went pretty well,” I had a very immediate and clear impression: “You don’t think you’re the one
who did that, do you?” I literally looked up and said, “Oh yeah, I didn’t think it was me. I really
didn’t think it was me.” That’s when I realized that the Lord had indeed sent help.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I can’t think of a single thing I’ve ever been asked to do that I have felt or been equal to. But
therein lies the beautiful intersection of grace and works. When we as disciples do our best,
whatever that is at a given moment, the Lord magnifies us.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Doing all we can do is about becoming and behaving like true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is our part. That being said, make no mistake about it: notwithstanding all we can do and
despite the little we actually do, it is the Savior’s grace that will ultimately save us.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">50 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We can
never earn exaltation. But we can indicate by the way we live our lives that we want to be part of
the kingdom of God more than we want anything else. And that is discipleship.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Last year, Elder Holland encouraged new mission presidents to “have an eternal love affair with
the life of the Son of God. I pray that you will . . . love everything He did, everywhere He went,
everything He said, and everything He is. I would walk on hot lava, I would drink broken glass
to find one more word, one more phrase, one more doctrine, </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">any </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">parable that </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">anyone </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">could give
me of the life of Christ the living Son of the living God. The doctrine of Christ means everything
to me as a result of [my feelings] for the author of the doctrine of Christ.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">51
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">My dear sisters whom I love dearly, what one thing would you be willing to give up, starting
today, to put the Savior even more at the center of your life? What one thing would you be
willing to do, starting today, to unlock more of His power? His grace is what will enable us to do
what the Savior is counting on us to do in the twilight of this great, culminating gospel
dispensation.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Elder Holland put the task before us in perspective: ‘“Something is going to be asked of this
dispensation that’s never been asked before.’ . . . [We] must be ready ‘to present the Church of
the Lamb, to the Lamb,’ and when that happens, ‘we must be looking and acting like His
Church.’”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">52
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Lord is hastening His work, as we all know, and we are right in the middle of the hastening.
I loved it when a sister opened a recent Relief Society meeting in Houston by praying, “We are
grateful to live in this day when we are preparing the world for the return of Jesus Christ.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Think of her statement! The eyes and the hopes of every previous dispensation are upon us.
We’ve been chosen to help prepare the world for the Savior. We are living in a day unlike any
other, which means it is simply time for us to do things we have never done before. Because we
are disciples of Christ, how will we make sure that we and our loved ones are truly converted?
Because we’re disciples of Christ, what will we never do or even tolerate again? Because we’re
disciples of Christ, what truths are we willing to stand for, even if they aren’t all that popular?
Because we’re disciples of Christ, how will we treat those who see the world, and even the
Church, differently? Because we’re disciples of Christ, what are we willing to do to build up the
kingdom of God?</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">53 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Because we’re disciples of Christ, how hard will we work to unlock the
Savior’s power?
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The more we unlock the power available to us as covenant-making women, the more vibrant our
impact will be in the work of salvation. We will receive more revelation more often; we will
learn to unlock the power we’ve been endowed with; we will perform more temple work and
worship; our families will be more centered around Christ and more eager to share the gospel;
we will have more righteous influence, period.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The key to unlocking the power of covenant women is covenant women learning to unlock the
power of Jesus Christ.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I know how tangible the Lord’s power is. I was in my early 30s when an opportunity to marry
evaporated overnight and the heartache plunged me into depression. One day a friend called to
say she’d had an impression that a verse in Mosiah was just for me, and then she read the verse
over the phone: “I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you
cannot feel them upon your backs . . . and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me
hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their
afflictions.”</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">54
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I’m sorry to say, and I’m kind of in shame to say, that I hung up even more discouraged. As
foolish as it sounds now, I wasn’t looking for the Lord to ease my burdens. I just wanted Him to
send me my husband! I felt like I could not face the burden of singleness </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">one more day</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. I was
pretty sure that if I prayed and fasted and went to the temple enough, I could convince Him to
bless me with this righteous desire. I wasn’t thinking about standing as a witness. I was far too
preoccupied with myself—which is exactly what happens when we try to lift our burdens alone.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Weeks stretched into a year, and with all of my praying and fasting and temple-going, I was still
single and still miserable. But then one day I noticed a verse in Luke where the Savior declares
that He has come to heal the brokenhearted. The </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">brokenhearted </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">word jumped out at me because
my heart was broken. I was still thinking about that verse a few days later when I found myself
meeting with Elder Bruce C. Hafen about a manuscript he had written on the enabling power of
the Atonement. I took that manuscript home and devoured every word. It opened my eyes to
scriptures and divine promises I had never seen before: that the Lord would heal our wounded
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">souls, that He had already taken our pains upon Him, and that He would succor us.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">55 </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I realized
then that I didn’t know very much about the Savior, and it simply isn’t possible to be a disciple
of someone you don’t know.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Fast-forward 30 years. In some respects, my life hasn’t changed that much, unfortunately. But in
other ways, </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">everything </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is different. That painful episode was a vital turning point, because it
launched me on a continuing quest to understand the Atonement and the power that flows from
it. Life would have crushed me long ago if I hadn’t learned how to access the Savior’s power. He
has carried me and healed my heart again and again.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sisters, just the last few days I have had yet another experience with the power and the grace of
Jesus Christ. On Saturday I became somewhat ill—I know you’ve been thinking that this voice
was just really attractive! I became quite ill on Saturday, and by the time I could see my doctor
on Monday, I was in a world of hurt. He took one look at me and took my temperature and
checked some other things and told me how seriously ill I was, kind of threatened me with the
hospital, and then said that it would take at least 10 days to get me back on my feet. That was
Monday at about 5:00 p.m.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I said, “Well that’s great, but I have just one little teeny problem with that.” I said, “Regardless
of what else you want to do, on Thursday morning I need to be able to stand at a pulpit for 35
minutes and talk to about 15,000 of my best friends.”
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He kind of looked at me like every marble had just drained out of my head and then went to
work to do everything he could medically to help me—and he did everything he could, and I’m
grateful for it. But that’s not why I’m here today. I’m here because my family and many, many
friends have been praying for me, and fasting. I’m here because general auxiliary presidencies
have been praying for me, and Sandra Rogers and her committee. I’m here because priesthood
power is real. I’m here because angels are real, and they really do minister through a very thin
veil. All of these blessings that give us access to the power of God are manifestations of the
grace of Jesus Christ.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sometimes we think that the world around us is what is real—but this world is so fake, so much
of it. What’s real is our Father and His Son, the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ and all the
power available to us to help us do what we came to this earth to do.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This recent experience is one of many that allow me today to tell you that I do stand as a witness
that the Lord does visit His people in their afflictions. I testify to you that He is filled with
healing, enabling power, and that He can ease our burdens and strengthen us when we feel
weaker than weak. I testify that the covenant path, the path of discipleship, is actually the easiest
path. And I testify that the Savior’s love for us has no end, which is why the fruit of the tree is
always sweet above all that is sweet.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This really is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jesus Christ really is going to
come again. Every knee really is going to bow and every tongue confess that He is the Christ. I
know these things are true. As His covenant daughters, may we be determined to unlock His
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">power to help us be the disciples we want to be. In the sacred and holy name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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