Handle with Prayer

When You Have the Spirit

Color Coding Your Patriarchal Blessing

http://www.ywconnection.com/Activities/pageApatriarchalblessingcolorcoding.html

Discipleship

Thou shalt love the Lord they God with ALL thy heart!

If ye love me, keep my commandments!

The crowning characteristic of love is always Loyalty.

We have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the pour to lift up, and the truth to defend.
We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do. 

I have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating my love of the Lord.

We can't quit and we can't go back! After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/the-first-great-commandment?lang=eng&media=video

"My Father in Heaven expects my loyalty and my love at every stage of my life."

Think less of yourself

“There are those who wake up every morning dreading to go to school, or even to a Church activity, because they worry about how they will be treated. You have the power to change their lives for the better. … The Lord is counting on you to be a builder and give them a lift. Think less of yourself and more about the power you have to assist others, even those within your own family.” Elder Joe J. Rachael Christensen Dean

It's your REACTION

What are the limits?

https://www.lds.org/youth/video/chastity-what-are-the-limits?lang=eng

Acting on Faith

No matter who we are or where we live, there is much about our daily lives that is routine and repetitive. As we go about this dailiness, we must be deliberate about doing the things that matter most. These must-do things include making room first for the minimum daily requirements of faithful behavior: true obedience, humble prayer, serious scripture study, and selfless service to others. No other daily vitamins strengthen the muscles of our faith as fast as these actions. We also must remember that genuine fasting fosters strong faith. This is especially important as we faithfully seek to fix deeply embedded character flaws which go “not out but by prayer and fasting.”¹⁶

 

Developing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a step-by-step, line-upon-line, and precept-upon-precept process. We promote the process of strengthening our faith when we do what is right—increased faith always follows as a consequence.¹⁷ If we exercise our faith daily with prayer, study, and obedience, the Savior helps our unbelief, and our faith becomes a shield to “quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”¹⁸ Alma taught that we may “withstand every temptation of the devil, with [our] faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.”¹⁹ However, we can neither ignore nor reject the essential ingredients of faith and then expect to reap a rich harvest.

 

Elder L. Whitney Clayton

Of the Seventy

 

https://www.lds.org/liahona/2002/01/help-thou-mine-unbelief?lang=eng

Our Code of Conduct

"As taught in this scripture D&C 132:19, an eternal bond doesn’t just happen as a result of sealing covenants we make in the temple. How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities."

Robert D. Hales, "The Eternal Family"
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/10/the-eternal-family?lang=eng&query=*+(name%3a"Robert+D.+Hales")

High Standards

"Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind." — Boyd K. Packer

Finding Yourself

Life isn't about finding yourself,

it's about discovering who God created you to be.

A God of Mercy

"Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don’t expect it and often feel they don’t deserve it."

Elder Jeffery R Holland. April 2012 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/the-laborers-in-the-vineyard?lang=eng

Pray for strength

"...Nephi did not pray to have his circumstances changed.  Rather, he prayed for the strength to change his circumstances.  And I believe he prayed in this manner precisely because he knew, understood, and had experienced the enabling power of the Atonement."
Elder Bednar,  "The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality"  April 2012

The Way Christ Lives!

When you care more about LIVING the way Christ lives! 

That's when you'll know what beauty is!

LOVE to live the gospel!

It's not enough to just live the gospel,

you must learn to LOVE to live the gospel!

Little Miracles

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~Albert Einstein

Today I am happy.
I am happy because I love and I am loved.
I am happy because I am surrounded by miracles each and every day.

Dancing in the Rain

I'll try again tomorrow!

People are not perfect!

"We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive."
—President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Never Give Up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE

Laugh

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

STOP IT!

Deep Beauty

https://www.lds.org/youth/video/deep-beauty?lang=eng

"You were Born to be a Queen!"

I want to print this in vinyl to put on our mirrors.

It takes courage!

It takes courage to gather children from whatever they’re doing and kneel together as a family. It takes courage to turn off the television and the computer and to guide your family through the pages of the scriptures every day.

– Larry R Lawrence, Courageous Parenting, Ensign, Oct 2010