Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Look Not Behind Thee

Elder Holland gave a talk at BYU and it was exactly what I needed to hear: "Try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes." -Elder Holland This quote hit me and I realized...

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Feeling the Spirit-Through the Priesthood

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have the blessing of holding the Priesthood. What's the Priesthood? Priesthood: the power and authority that God gives to man to act in all things necessary for the salvation of God’s children. It is the power that God gives for us, his children, to do all things necessary for salvation. Jamie (name has been changed) is somebody who hasn't heard of the Priesthood before. She recently...