Build Your Testimony

Below are excerpts from this weeks Build Your Testimony posts. I have opened this blog to the world. As I have contemplated this worthwhile endeavor it occurred to me that my testimony is not private and it should NOT be, it is intended to be shared... so for now it is open for all to see or for those interested.

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"Where Are Your Roots Planted?"

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green...Jeremiah 17:7-8

...Elder Hamula talked about the temple and the importance of being there often; he even offered a gentle admonition suggesting we (as a stake) were not attending as much as we should. He challenged us to go home and pray with our spouses about what more we can do in relationship to our temple attendance. To summarize greatly and only recalling from my memory what I can articulate, he talked about the last days and asked if we would be ”able to abide it?” Joel 2:11, meaning the trails and tribulations that will come. Are we firm enough? Do we see that “strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to exaltation” D&C 132:22....


"Motherhood... Cherish It!"

.....Sister Margaret D. Nadauld says about motherhood “Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. …You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their attitude. They know that the errand of angels is given to women, and they desire to be on God’s errand to love His children and minister to them, to teach them the doctrines of salvation, to call them to repentance, to save them in perilous circumstances, to guide them in the performance of His work, to deliver His messages…You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their reverence for motherhood,… Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute. Surely when a woman reverences motherhood, her children will arise up and call her blessed (see Prov. 31:28).. …Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.” “The Joy of Womanhood,” Ensign, Nov 2000, 14–16
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