After All We Can Do by Elder Claudio D. Zivic I heard a friend ask this last week, "how long must I continue trying so hard?" and quickly thought, well, that's easy to answer; we should do all that we can do for the WHOLE of our mortal lives. That's w...

Elder Michael J. Teh Of the Seventy Talk Audio  "We need to enlarge the circle of our influence" - This reminds me to break free from any cliques that we can quite easily establish and seek to include all. "To some degree we all depend on each ot...

Claim the Exceeding Great and Precious Promises by Elder Spencer J. Condie "And God remembered Rachel." After being with my dear friend Rachel last week for the blessing of her lovely Thomas, I realized that my Father in Heaven DOES love his children....

I'd like to dedicate this post to my friend Charles. It's been a little while since I took some time to get out of myself. The other week I stepped out of my usual self-absorbed role to wear the hat of a missionary again. Our ward mission leader had a...

I had a great week leading up to Easter today. I enjoyed studying about the last week of our Savior and felt closer to Him as I did so. I often feel the pull of the world and today, to know that through Christ's resurrection I have life was a good fee...

Live by Faith and Not by Fear Elder Quentin L. Cook Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles "When we choose to follow Christ in faith rather than choosing another path out of fear, we are blessed with a consequence that is consistent with our choice (see...

This started as a comment I posted on the imported Facebook Note of my blog post Simplifying Stuff that I felt deserved it's own showing on the floor room of my blog. So, during this last conference I had an interesting experience. I hadn't felt s...