Always remember

	As we sail through life, don't avoid   storms or rough waters, Just let it pass Just sail Always remember calm waters won't make a skillful sailor Sometimes God calms the storm, sometimes he lets the storm rage and calms his child.

My eyes are an ocean in which my Dreams are reflected

My eyes are an ocean in which my Dreams are reflected.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop

Mother Teresa

Individually we are one drop together we are an ocean

Life at any time can become difficult.

Life at any time can become easy.

Good or Bad, they are Seasons of Life.

It all depends upon,

How you take on life and adjust to these seasons.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we use them.

So when life gives you rocks

It's still your choice whether to build a wall or to build a bridge.

Pretty sweet way to proselyte

Thursday, November 19, 2009

LDS Missionaries in Bulgaria

 

Pretty sweet way to proselyte.

Joseph Smith's vision

Lehi's dream.

Two by Two

The Truth of God Will Go Forth

"It was said that at one time the sun never set on the British Empire. That empire has now been diminished. But it is true that the sun never sets on this work of the Lord as it is touching the lives of people across the earth."

Gordon B. Hinckley

Worn Soles

The shoes of our hardworking missionaries,
Become worn starting to develop small holes.
As they tract trying to preach the gospel.
Looking for our Savior's, lost souls.

Traveling in a car or just pedaling their bike.
Willing to freely give two years of their life.
Knocking on many unknown doors each day.
Young fishers of men relieving toil and strife.

Changing companionships from time to time.
Living in several different areas and places.
Heeding the call to serve where directed.
Doing God's will meeting new faces.

Waking up at 6:30 each and every morning.
Having few choices what they're going to wear.
Kneeling and praying for a missionary experience.
Giving a Book of Mormon, testimony to share.

They know the worth of a soul is great.
In our Heavenly Father's eternal sight.
Knowing how great will be their own joy.
Going forward in the work with all their might.

Desiring others to come to the waters of baptism.
Gaining a testimony with a sincere fervent heart.
These wonderful souls taught by the Holy Spirit.
Missionaries grateful for worn soles, doing their part.

"A True Disciple of Christ Will Always be Remembered,

For Changing Another's Life."

"Missionary service is not easy, but it is infinitely worth it."

M. Russell Ballard

If there are any doors open for the Elders to preach the first principles of the gospel: let them not keep silence: rail not against the sects, neither talk against their tenets. But preach Christ and him crucified, love to God, and love to man. . . . Be meek and lowly of heart, and the Lord God of our fathers shall be with you for evermore.

Joseph Smith

"There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Heber J. Grant

"The Joy of Becoming Clean"

"Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ—both those of commission and those of omission—opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."

Neil L. Andersen

Feed My Sheep

From Adam to the present day
The message of the gospel came.
To children of our Heavenly King
Each one he knows them by their name.

With Love for each dear child of God
We have been sent to teach his word.
His name is written in our heart
We must go forth and do our part.

We have been given his priesthood power
And charged to watch and feed his sheep.
As servants of the Son of God
We must strive on and never sleep.

For if we are to live with him
Our sacred trust we must fulfill.
That we may stand before his face
And be partakers of his grace.

"… be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you."

1 Peter 3:15

We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

Joseph Smith

Keepers of Light

The Pondering man wants to add insight,
About those he calls keepers of light.
Light Houses need caretakers, day and night.
Help those in need, with their might.

A distressed ship may see a faint beam,
Though a hundred miles away, it may seem.
Casting an illusion, of massing pillars of steam.
Piercing through clouds, making one's heart gleam.

Willing to help, regardless of the weather,
Reuniting lost loved ones, back together.
Giving comfort, making one's load, feel like a feather.
Finding and saving lost souls, could last forever.

Light houses come in different shapes and sizes.
Seen miles off shore, as the morning sun rises.
Faithful light house keeper, willingly advises.
Sounding warnings of hazardous surprises.

Light houses are made of more materials, than just stone.
Sharing the light, letting them know they're not alone.
Giving comfort and courage, to handle the unknown.
Having gratitude, for the seed they have carefully sewn.

Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

Joseph Smith

"The Saints of God have always been under covenant to nourish each other spiritually, especially those tender in the gospel."

Henry B. Eyring

"In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how."

David O. McKay

"I believe there is nothing in all the world that can compare with the joy that a man feels when he realizes that he has been the instrument in the hands of the living God of reaching some honest heart, inspiring in it

a love of God and the desire to serve Him."

Heber J. Grant

"I have attended hundreds of missionary meetings over the years. I love to hear missionaries speak of their love for the Lord, but I also love to hear them speak with great appreciation and love concerning their parents. Boys who had been careless and indifferent stand on their feet and with tears in their eyes thank the Lord for their fathers and their mothers. In these days, what a salutary and wonderful thing it is to hear a strong young man stand up and speak with great feeling concerning his father and his mother, saying things he would never have said

before in all of his life.

Every boy and girl ought to come home with an increased love for parents."

Gordon B. Hinckley

Two by Two

for it knows no barriers

"God tends to pour blessing on people going in a direction He wants them to go."

"We don't have to do great things. We just have to hang on and do right things that become great."
Ardeth Greene Kapp

"They can take everything, but the only way you lose your hope is you have
to surrender it."
~ a wise mother~

"Problems give us the ability to hang on and that ability changes who we are.  When our character is permanently molded by the trials we are stronger and the end result is hope."
Dave Ramsey

"Trying to find lasting love without obeying God is like trying to quench thirst by drinking from an empty cup

—you can go through the motions, but the thirst remains."

John H. Groberg

"Worry and fear are everywhere.  Worry and fear are another sign that contentment is not in the house.  Worry and fear paralyze us and have reached truly epidemic levels in our culture.  Worry and fear cannot exist it the same house as contentment does."
Dave Ramsey

"You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

"Nothing worthwhile comes easily.   Half effort does not produce half results.  It produces no results.  Work, continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last."
Hamilton Holt

"The most important decision in achieving a goal is not what you are willing to do to achieve it, but what you are willing to give up to achieve it."
Earl Nightingale

"Everything that's important - you can take with you."
— Sheri L. Dew

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion."

Gordon B. Hinckley

"Never underestimate the power of true love, for it knows no barriers."

John H. Groberg

God is at work - Remember 9.11

The  L I T T L E  Things As you might remember, the head of a company survived  9/11  because his son started kindergarten.  Another fellow was alive because it was His turn to bring donuts. One woman was late because her  Alarm clock didn't go off in time. One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike Because of an auto accident. One of them  Missed his bus. One spilled food on her clothes and had to take Time to change. One's Car wouldn't start. One couldn't Get a taxi. The one that struck me was the man  Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, Took the various means to get to work But before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot.  He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.  That is why he is alive today.. Now when I am Stuck in traffic , Miss an elevator,  Turn back to answer a ringing telephone ... All the little things that annoy me. I think to myself, This is exactly where  God wants me to be At this very moment..  Next time your morning seems to be  Going wrong ,  You can't seem to find the car keys,  You hit every traffic light, Don't get mad or frustrated;  It May be just that God is at work watching over you.  May God continue to bless you  With all those annoying little things  And may you remember their possible purpose.