Are You Partaking?

Sometimes I wonder if I am doing my part to rise up to my full potential and making blessings accesible. I look back on the past month and then look at the person I am now...

Have I changed for the better? Then I look at the life I was living before this journey of a mission and know that I am only doing my best.

How do we reach that potential and partake of the privileges?

"As you read the scriptures and listen to the words of the prophets with all your heart and mind the Lord will tell you how to live up to your privileges."

Without my Savior there is no way that I would be able to receive those privileges but if I'm doing the best that I can everyday and striving to be more like Him, He will make up for the rest.

"We will be able to do all things through Christ who strengthens us."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Find Joy in the Journey

He Lives

Because of Him

Forgive & Forget

Matthew 6:14-15
 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

"Nine Principles for a Successful Marriage and Family"

 "It is possible to make a home a bit of heaven; indeed I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home."
-David O. McKay

Faith
 "Faith in God includes faith in His timing."
-Neil A. Maxwell

Prayer
 "We must not only say our prayers; We must also live them."
-J. Devin Cornish

Repentance
 "It's better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent."
-President Benson

Forgiveness
“Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Respect
"I hope that the noise of our homes will drop a few decibels, that we will subdue our voices and speak to one another with greater appreciation and respect"
-Gordon B. Hinkley

Love
There is beauty all around
When there's love at home

Compassion
In the scriptures, compassion means literally “to suffer with.” It also means to show sympathy, pity, and mercy for another.

Work
"Work cements family relationships"
-Dianne Dibb Forbis

Recreation
"Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. Family home evenings should be scheduled once a week as a time for recreation, work projects, skits, songs around the piano, games, special refreshments, and family prayers. … This practice will bind a family together, in love, pride, tradition, strength, and loyalty"
-President Ezra Taft Benson

http://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/06/nine-principles-for-a-successful-marriage-and-family?lang=eng

Christus

Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. (3 Nephi 9:15) 

I came into the world to do the will of the Father. (3 Nephi 27:13)

My Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; …that I might draw all men unto me (3 Nephi 27:14)

Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my spirit, and you shall have peace in me. (D&C 19:23) 

Behold the wounds which pierced my side, and also the prints of the nails in my hands and feet (D&C 6:37) 

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For behold, I… have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent. (D&C 19:16)

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God; believe also in me. (John 14:1)

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall men know that ye are my disciples (John 13:34, 35)

In my Father’s house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2)

If ye love me keep my commandments. (John 14:15)

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