4th Sunday - worth waiting for

Because of my new calling in Primary I wasn't in RS on Sunday but still wanted to be able to share a snippet with you one last time. I heard several ladies talking about a video that Sis. Johnson shared with her lesson. Sister Johnson told me how to find it and after watching it I can see why there was so much chatter about it. 

Click play to see this great video!

The message is clear but it can also be applied to more than just chastity and marriage. Think about the things in your life that are worth waiting for...the things we are striving through each day to get that "prize" or present at the end....
thanks Sis. Johnson! 

Chapter #10 - lesson snippets

A big thank you to everyone who helped out in RS today. We had 3 substitutes including Sis. Ovard who taught our lesson today from Chapter 10 - Our Search for Truth. Here's a few sections I'd like to share from her lesson:

Near the beginning of her lesson she asked,
" How can we walk in truth if we do not know it?"

I thought that was a very powerful way to start the lesson. Such a truth on a lesson about truth. She shared a quote from the lesson from Pres. Smith about his fond memories of sitting at his Father's feet and learning about the scriptures and the gospel.  

“All my days I have studied the scriptures and have sought the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord in coming to an understanding of their true meaning. The Lord has been good to me, and I rejoice in the knowledge he has given me and in the privilege that has been and is mine to teach his saving principles.”⁶
 
Which made me think - What sort of examples have I set? What sort of routines do I have in your home? Where can I do better? 

Pres. Smith also said that everyone should learn something new everyday. That we all have inquiring minds and are seeking things in many fields. He said to search the scriptures. How many of us know this as Members but fail to prepare?

Scenario - If you were asked today byt the prophet to pack up and leave for Missouri would you? (raise your hands)Counter that with, "you have been asked/told by the prophet to read your scriptures daily. Now raise your hands if you've followed that council? "

We are told by Pres. Smith to Read, study, seek and gain. We can always find time for the things you want to do.....The good thing is we have today to start anew. Like Sis. Ovard quoted Rifiki from Lion King, "It's in the past". If you haven't done all that you've wanted to do, you have the chance to change and do better.

Lesson Snippet from manual #9

Lesson 9, Witnesses of the Book of Mormon - Sister Irmgard Dixon. Said President Smith of the Book of Mormon, "I have read it many, many times. I have not read it enough. It sill contains truths that I still may see and find, for I have not mastered it, but I know it is true".

Sister Dixon took us to the title page of the Book of Mormon to remind us of the purpose this scripture, "to show unto the remnant of the house of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers, that they may know the covenants of the Lord...And also to the convincing of the Jew and the Gentile that Jesus is the Christ."

 In other words, sister Dixon said, "to remember and to come unto Christ." It is important to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon as the 3 witnesses did. These three men, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris never did recant their testimony of this holy book of scripture, even when they became disaffected from the church.

Some questions sister Dixon gave us to ponder: Which of the prophets of the Book of Mormon would you like to meet, and why? How did you receive your witness of the Book of Mormon? And the most important, What can you do to share this witness with others?

Thank you sister Dixon for another wonderful lesson!