To Do List

***Go and do the things the Lord has commanded.

***Liken all scriptures unto yourself.

***Have joy.

***Choose well.

***Never stop learning.

***Don’t ever rationalize breaking God’s commandments – not even the “little” ones.

***Feast on the words of Christ.

***Pray.

***Seek to build your relationship with God first – then watch everything fall into place.

***Find ways to meaningfully serve others (Him).

***Be courageous in your battle with the natural man.

***Watch your thoughts, your words, and your deeds.

***Have faith – even when you cannot see.

***Don’t procrastinate making the changes necessary to achieve your goal to become like Him.

***Pay attention to the little things. They make a BIG difference.

***Learn while you’re young, to keep the commandments – all of them.

***Guarantee your happiness by avoiding - at all cost- anything even remotely wicked.

***Build your life securely on the Rock of our Redeemer.

***Promote peace.

***Remember the Savior’s expectation: [Be] even as I am.”

***Exercise your faith often so that your testimony may be strengthened.

***Appreciate your weaknesses – with the Lord’s help, they can become great strengths.

***Learn to judge between good and evil.

***Run from those things that entice you to do evil.

Run toward those things that invite you to do good.

***Develop charity.

***Know that the Holy Ghost is able to reveal all truth.

(Yep, that’s all 25 Scripture Mastery passages).

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Oh, Lucy - -

How did you know
what this bouquet would mean to me this morning?
Bless your sweet heart.

Week 34 -- Looking Back

A few nuggets from the Book of Moroni:

· Moroni lived 36 years after the final battle between the Nephites and the Lamanites (see Mormon 6:5 and Moroni 10:1). He was alone for about 20 of those!

· Read chapters 4 & 5 and change the pronouns to first person. The Sacrament prayers become a lot more personal when done this way.

· Pres. Boyd K. Packer said, “Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.”

· Chapter 6 is very short – only 9 verses. It’s packed, though, with the responsibilities of those who are learning about the gospel, those who are teaching it, those who are friends and neighbors to those who are learning, and those who are the leaders. These words should be written in the margin of that chapter: numbered, named, remembered, and nourished.

· Everything that leads us to do good comes from God. Everything that leads us to do evil comes from the devil. This doctrine is found in the scripture mastery passage Moroni 7:16-17.

· Charity is the attribute essential to salvation. It is composed of patience, kindness, thoughtfulness, unselfishness, love for fellowmen, cleanliness, and endurance. This doctrine is found in Moroni 7:45, another scripture mastery verse.

· Chapter 8 is a letter that Moroni had received from his father at an earlier time. In verse 3 we read, “I am mindful of you always in my prayers.” That’s just how it is with parents.

Imagine being alone. You have no home, your friends and family have all been killed, and their murderers now seek your life. This was Moroni’s situation as he finished his father’s record. Although he thought he did not have much time to write, he was careful to add what he thought would be valuable to us. He buried the sacred record in the Hill Cumorah in about A.D. 421. There the plates remained until September 22, 1827, when Moroni, as an angel under assignment by the Lord, delivered the plates to the Prophet Joseph for translation.

Practice Makes Perfect (good thing we've got another week)!

Thanks, former seminary student,
for making the chapel shots.

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