18 September 2011

Sacrament Meeting-
We must mourn with those that mourn and comfort those that stand in need of comfort.
Service is essential because it brings us closer together; it makes us one. We are a city upon a hill.
"Missionary work is home teaching non-members and home teaching is missionary work to members.
Home teaching is there to bless other people's lives, not because we have to report it.
1. Be a home teacher, do not just do your home teaching. Check in more than once a month. Be their friend.
2. Plan your meeting. Even if it is only for 15 minutes. Take the time to prepare your lesson.
3. Allow yourself to be taught. Let the Spirit bless you with home teaching.
Home teaching can help us become a ward family, through it, we can come closer together.
Faith is like the Energizer bunny, it pushes you through even the most difficult times.
Faith is "all is well, knowing the Lord will never forsake you."
Find a way to seek deliverance from trials.
When you lose faith, you lose your momentums.
Yes you can, you can do anything and everything through God. Someone is always there whether seen or unseen.
The point of service is to have charity, to help make others lives easier and happier.
Charity is the pure love of Christ. You see past others flaws, see their potential, and in doing so, you see past your own flaws and see your potential as well.
When you focus on the Lord's errand, everything will fall into place.
John 13:17-
     "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
You show your love for others by serving them. Forget yourself and lose yourself in service to others.
Heavenly Father knows when we need to be served, when we need help, etc. However we must allow people to serve us as well.
The Lord needs us to follow the promptings, especially when it comes to service.

Sunday School:
2 Corinthians 1:3-6
    "Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
      I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
      That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
      Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:"
We can gain divine guidance in everything whether they are mundane or monumental.
Our trials are for our betterment.
Christ knows when to succor us because He has been through each of our trials as well.
Praying for other people will help us to become more like Christ. He prayed for us when He was on the cross.
Pray for those who need help, as well as your enemies. If you are praying for those you have problems with, it will soften your heart.
2 Corinthians 2:5-11
    "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
      Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
     But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
     Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
     Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
     But as it is written, Eye, hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
     But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
     For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."
You have to learn to forgive. Forgiveness gives you freedom. Do not beat yourself up for poor decisions that you have made, use the atonement and move past your issue so that you can become happy again.