Notes

{And just like that, I can suddenly post on Blogger again! Yay!}

I'm just wanting to record a few things so that I have them in a searchable format for my future use.

From my notes from Elder Maynes's talk at our Regional Conference last week:

Who am I?  This is a question many ask.  We often define ourselves by our occupations, hobbies, families or social status.

But as Children of God, our relationship with Him is what should define us.

Knowing who we are spiritually affects our every act.

We are commanded to REMEMBER.  Remembering is a celestial attribute.  The scriptures are replete with counsel to remember.

The Lord remembers us so we should remember Him.

One of the most important responsibilities of the Holy Ghost is to bring all things to our remembrance 

Anyone or anything that causes us to forget who we are is a Korihor in our lives.

Remember who we are and act accordingly.

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Elder Bednar was at my sister's stake conference this past weekend.  I asked her to send me a little of what he said.  Here is her email.  All very profound.  I fall short.

Elder Bednar told us of something that has been on his mind lately.  It was something that Elder Maxwell had said to him once.  Something about the "character of Christ."  So E. Bednar has been thinking about what that means.  He has found that even in the moments when Christ was in the most anquish, he turned outward.  The temptations that Satan presented to him were invitations to think of himself and Christ refused.  When on the cross, He was thinking of those around him.  When in the Garden of Gethsemane and Peter cut off the ear of the solider, Christ had compassion on him despite what he must have been going through.  Elder Bednar challenged us to look outward and not in.  He used Cookie Monster as an example of a "Me, me me," character.  His question to us was, "What way are you facing?  Out or in?"  

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Then something I ran across this morning in my studying.  Powerful thought.  (Read the rest of the awesome talk here; I highly recommend.)

O my beloved hearers, what a world it would be if a million families in this church were to be on their knees . . .every night and morning! And what a world it would be if nearly a hundred million families in this great land and other hundreds in other lands were praying for their sons and daughters twice daily. And what a world this would be if a billion families through the world were in home evenings and church activity and were on their physical knees pouring out their souls for their children, their families, their leaders, their governments!

This kind of family life could bring us back toward the translation experience of righteous Enoch. The millennium would be ushered in. Enoch was asked questions about himself; he answered, among other things, “… my father taught me in all the ways of God.” (Moses 6:41.) And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him.  (Spencer W. Kimball 1973)