"Of Things that Matter Most"

Today I just want to share the talk given at General Conference, October 2010, by Pres. Uchtdorf..he's actually one of my favorite Speaker. I think his talk is very fitting for this season. The message delivered in his talk is one I thought most of us parents can benefit from, especially the mothers with Christmas right around the corner.

We tend to take on a lot on our plate and we can justify that we rightfully do so since it is our duty. We tend to be so caught up with our daily lives that sometimes we overlook those things that matter most. I am quilty of that so that's why I like this talk. I hope you enjoy it as much I as I do/did.




Hopefully this is something you all can take into consideration. While you are preparing for Christmas, shopping, cleaning, decorating, baking or cooking, or even preparing for visitors to your home, take a little time out to sit down and ponder Pres. Uchtdorf's message.

Love,

Sunday Devotional

All the members here in Hawaii have been asked to fast this weekend for missionary work. And very fitting that it should be this weekend since this is Fast Sunday. So I thought today I'll just share some thoughts with you today.

Being a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I truly am one of the most grateful soul for missionary work. I am and will forever be grateful for those two very diligent and faithful sister missionary who showed up at my house one day to share with me and my family the wonderful and precious message they had. I truly believe the Lord lead them to my door at a time when I needed to know the true gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love each and every one us and is there when we need Them. That the Book of Mormon is true..that Joseph Smith was truly a Prophet of God who had been chosen at the time to be a great instrument in the Lord's work to help build up His Kingdom here upon the earth. I believe that we do have a true and living prophet today, called Thomas S. Monson.

I am grateful that I am a LDS (Mormon). I am extremely grateful to know that my Heavenly Father loves me and that I've been blessed with a wonderful husband who loves me too. I am actually amazed and humbled to be a mother to seven of the most precious human beings on this earth who are my pride and joy. I am also grateful for true friends, for this modern day technology called Internet which allows me the ease of keeping in contact with friends and relatives who are living far away from me and for this wonderful gadget called Blogging where I can meet and make new friends all from the comfort of my home. And I leave this humble testimony of mine in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ....AMEN.

Here's a video I thought y'all might enjoy....

♥ and God bless!!!

Spiritual Sunday

We're having a Regional Conference and President Monson is going to be our main speaker today. I'm so excited to hear him speak today so I thought I'd share that with you all.

Spiritual Sunday

Just a little something to think about on this beautiful Sabbath day.

Enjoy.

Return to Virtue

The first Sunday I went to Young Women as the new Beehive Adviser, I noticed that there was an addition to the Young Women Values. Every Sunday the Young Women stand up and recite the Young Women Values and it goes something like this:

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us, and we love Him. We will “stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places” (Mosiah 18:9) as we strive to live the Young Women values, which are:

Faith
Divine Nature
Individual Worth
Knowledge
Choice and Accountability
Good Works and
Integrity and
Virtue

We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values, we will be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.



The First Presidency has proclaimed this new addition in the church news call "A Return to Virtue". I am actually very happy about this new addition and I'd say it came just the right time seeing how media and society seem to portray that being virtuous is something to snicker at. The book of Esther in the Old Testament has always been my favorite book in the Bible to read....Esther even though she was a Jew was chosen above all the other women in that country to be the next Queen not just because she's beautiful but because she possessed this aura about her, the most virtuous one among those women and that virtue she had that later led her to courageously stood up in front of the King, without being invited, at the risk of her own life to beg for her people's lives. If you haven't read that, you can look it up in the Old Testimony.

Anyways, I've been preparing my lesson for Young Women today and thought I'd share video and message with you today. Have a great Sunday and may the Lord keep you and bless you with whatever you stand in need of.

A Simple Explanation

In Primary, the kids were often asked to identify the general authorities, esp. the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve. I thought today I would play this cute video that describes the new arrangement in the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. My kids love this video. Whoever made this is such a genius. I love how songs make learning or memorizing things so much easier.



I'm teaching the Beehive class today again and the MiaMaid teacher called yesterday and asked if I can add her class to my class today. She was going off island so she wouldn't be able to make it to church today to teach her class. So I was preparing my lesson this morning and I came across this Article of Faith...it totally goes with the video so I thought I'd include this in here today. I borrowed the picture from 2Busy..thanks Lisa..hope you don't mind, I like your picture. And it goes great with what I have in mind for today.

Here goes...the Fifth Article of Faith:

We believe that a man must be called of God,
by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands
by those who are in authority,
to preach the Gospel and
administer in the ordinances thereof."


This is truly something I believe in and I am so happy to be able to share this with you today. Hope you all have a wonderful Sabbath day!!

Here's to you to ponder!!

I've been preparing my lesson for my Beehive class and I needed a little inspiration to help enhance my lesson so of course I've been cruising in the cyper world. I've come across this and love it so much, I thought I'd share it with you.



Hope you have a peaceful Sunday!!