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us have known the missionaries and perhaps been taught by them on a mission the mission president and the missionaries tend to focus rightly so to a degree on baptism our goal as members is to prepare investigators to be taught by the missionaries the missionaries goal is to teach the investigators and prepare them for baptism the converts goal and each of us is a convert and should repeatedly be so throughout our lives is to get ourselves and our whole family to the temple why the temple is all about the family the eternal family worthy families go to the temple and slowly perfect themselves to become eternal families with our heavenly father may i repeat worthy families go to the temple and slowly perfect themselves to become eternal families with our heavenly father elder bednar tells of when he was recently called to be the stake president in talking to a friend who was a former stake president his friend mentioned how important his call as a temple worker was and how he wished he had been a temple worker before he was a stake president so that he could focus his stake on the temple and help to shepherd the saints to the lord s house i pray that we may all realize how important the temple is the temple and the covenants contained and fulfilled therein are the only ways to make our earthly family an eternal family they are the only way to take our whole family back to live in the presence of our heavenly father please notice that the reason the church it s activities and it s lessons and it s leaders focus so much on the temple is because of the covenants of the temple that allow us to have eternal families the family is the central unit of the church because it combined with the temple prepares us and helps us to be pure in the presence of god parents teach their children how to live how to act how to speak how to read the scriptures how to attend church how to pray and how to attend the temple regularly and frequently the scriptures are full of how parents can do that nephi teaches us that a major part of his preparation in becoming a prophet was his being born of goodly parents 1 nephi 1 1 he had visions regularly because of his father s visions and it came to pass after i nephi having heard all the words of my father concerning the things which he saw in a vision and also the things which he spake by the power of the holy ghost was desirous also that i might see and hear and know of these things by the power of the holy ghost 1 nephi 10 17 nephi became a righteous man leader and prophet because of how and what his parents taught him no wonder the church places preeminence on the family unit our heavenly father knows what our families go through he knows what the world is like now and he knows that our homes need to be and should be a safe and righteous place for our families to be a number of years ago the then elder eyring explained how the family creates in us a desire to return to our heavenly father and the family helps us to do so by teaching us the gospel he said he knew it would be hard because of satan trying to keep us from it he quoted the prophet brigham young the men and women who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom will find that they must battle every day to draw closer to god henry b eyring pg 114 our family helps us in that battle president hinckely said in an interview we have a family home evening program once a week across the church in which parents sit down with their children they study the scriptures they talk about family problems they plan family activities and things of that kind i don t hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced that one thing you d see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world interview boston globe 14 aug 2000 in family home evening each week we can prepare our family to go out and not only face the world but to return with honor pure and clean and ready to approach god in humble prayer think of that brothers and sisters we teach our kids from when they are little to pray and then they will know forever that they have not only a loving father in heaven who wants to help them and who loves them but also that they can petition help from god the creator the all knowing and the all powerful do you think he will ignore us when we ask for help i testify that he will not do you think he will abandon us when things seem to be going wrong again i testify that he will not never so in family home evening we teach our children to pray and how to face the world in other words we prepare them for that battle that getting to the celestial kingdom is going to be in that same byu devotional from which he quoted the prophet brigham young elder eyring also told another story about his father his father was a famous world renowned and respected scientist who in his later years contracted and eventually died from bone cancer he tells how his family would take turns sitting with his father through the long months of his illness and how they all had to watch him suffer from the terrible pain elder eyring said one night when i was not with him and the pain seemed more than he could bear he somehow got out of bed and on his knees beside it i know not how he pled with god to know why he was suffering so and the next morning he said with quiet firmness i know why now god needs brave sons to draw closer to god henry b eyring pg 116 we will all face those moments in life when we will ask god to know why we are suffering so remember god needs brave sons and daughters family provides that example of righteousness and strength for us that brave example we rely on when the going gets tough as they say i watched my grandfather for the last nine years care for my grandmother as she suffered through alzheimer s he watched her at home until she could hardly remember her own children s and grandchildren s names and then he had to put her in a home but he wasn t done then i remember many many holidays where we got to go visit nana at the cottages she called all the men by the same name because she couldn t remember who we really were and at first it was the name of her only son and then it was the name of one of her brothers and all the women she called by the same name her sister s name as well but she always knew my grandpa s name eventually she lost all ability to speak anything but gibberish and then eventually she lost the ability to recognize when people were interacting with her through all those long years that nana was in the alzheimer s home my grandfather would visit her three times a day for every meal i still remember how lovingly he would talk to her even when she couldn t and didn t respond how he would buy her things how he would feed her when he could and how he would kiss her hello and goodbye grandpa even got so forgetful with old age that he always asked me how i was doing in school and what i was studying even though i graduated four years ago but he still visited nana three times a day we maintain that he was holding on just long enough for nana she passed away on mother s day last year and within one month of her passing my grandfather began to forget people s names and things he d done he doesn t remember me very much anymore and nana is gone but i will always always remember how beautiful a temple marriage can and should be it is from this example and the example of my father s parents and from my own parents and even from stories of my ancestors that i know what it means to be a hamblin do you know what it means to honor your last name we all need to remember that we have taken upon us the family name of jesus christ when we take the sacrament we take his name upon us just as we worry about what our earthly parents think of us and we try to do what they tell us to do we should try to do what our heavenly parents tell us to do that means that we need to try and be in tune with the holy ghost as much as possible he will tell us what the lord and our heavenly father want us to do he will help us as we read the scriptures and we should read them every day to know what lessons heavenly father would have us learn all of these things will help us as we interact with our family members on a daily basis parents will learn by reading and studying the scriptures themselves how to teach their children and what they need to teach them family scripture study and family prayer will draw a family closer together so when there are problems when someone is being tempted or feels in trouble they will know where to turn to seek the help they need to the family each of us should compliment with sincerity our family members more often when life gets tough we turn to those people on whom we can trust and who will help if we are constantly demanding things from our family never giving of ourselves and we do not tell them nor show them how much we love them when life gets tough for them they may not turn to us and if that prevents us or them from drawing our family back to heavenly father we will forever be sad to have an eternal family what do we need to do we need to have faith in jesus christ we need to seek the guidance of the holy ghost we need to read and study the scriptures daily we need to attend church we need to be charitable to others we need to teach our children and families to do these things and then we need to take everyone we can to the temple we have to keep doing these things but i promise we will be helped as we have family home evening and daily family scripture study and prayer i know we will be blessed i know the lord wants us to do this and i know also that the lord will prepare a way for us to have eternal families posted by russell at 9 06 pm no comments wednesday october 28 2009 love it i love the prophet nephi s simplicity i mentioned in an earlier post july 8 about how hard and yet simple it is to be obedient and do what we are supposed to do i wanted to post this as a follow up to that a scriptural follow up and we did observe to keep the judgments and the statutes and the commandments of the lord in all things according to the law of moses 2 nephi 5 10 does he say they were perfect no does he say they never made mistakes never sinned never committed a transgression no he just says they did observe to keep all the commandments did they make mistakes yes i m sure they did but at this time in my life the point of the verse to me is that they simply did it they were focused on keeping the commandments they tried to live how they were supposed to live they wanted to be righteous and so did what it took to be righteous it s all about choice we choose whether we turn that corner and run towards the light towards the savior or whether we turn the other way and go into darkness think about that as you re read elder bednar s talk about the parable of the pickle also re read elder porter s talk about a broken heart and a contrite spirit and what was the end result verse 11 and the lord was with us and we did prosper exceedingly posted by russell at 10 32 am 1 comment monday october 26 2009 the weekend so this was an up and down weekend i helped christina clean out her grandmother s garage clean it out and organize it it looks great now and i ll try to put a picture at the end of the post so you can see unfortunately we don t have a before picture so you can t see how it was before but it was a lot of stuff so yesterday i was sore and that continues today a little bit it still feels good to not only get a good workout but to in the process help someone do something that they couldn t do for themselves service it s great in football this weekend there was a lot of up and down two of my top three teams won so i m happy about that but my number one team byu lost badly they got spanked by tcu i think they should have at least been able to make it a good game if not even win but it seems like they didn t show up to play i know tcu s defense is good and very fast but byu always seemed to make some stupid mistake that resulted in a turnover and points a sack a three and out series a punt etc they are better than that but texas won and even fsu won on thursday not quite the weekend but close to the weekend and a very close game anyway i m left with waiting again this week to see if i get any job offers i have two jobs that i interviewed for last week one with capelouto the pest control company was a 2nd round interview so when they call at the end of this week it will be with a job offer the second with target will call and offer me a 2nd round interview i hope i will then be able to have two great jobs to have to chose between that s what christina and i keep praying for and we would appreciate any prayers from you all prayer really works doesn t that garage look beautiful before you could barely walk through the middle yes we took a truck load of stuff to the dump too posted by russell at 12 14 pm no comments friday october 16 2009 post blog post comment i would highly recommend this to everyone it goes along nicely with my last post and i just love the way elder maxwell would write speak notwithstanding my weakness elder neal a maxwell nov 1976 posted by russell at 6 00 pm no comments thursday october 15 2009 truth lies i read an interesting article in the ensign yesterday and so have named this post after the title of said article truth lies if you haven t read it i recommend you do so mostly because i think it will speak to you as it spoke to me it focuses on the lies that satan tries to tell us in order to separate our hearts and minds from focusing on the truth the prophet and president ezra taft benson taught that in the latter days satan would specifically use despair discouragement despondency and depression to overcome the saints how true that is now you may say that this particularly struck a cord with me because after 6 months of trying to find a job in today s economy it is natural to be despaired or get discouraged i ll admit that is true to a degree it has been really hard for me for whatever reason most likely our culture your self worth seems to hinge however incorrectly on your ability to work find a job however i found that reading the article focused on so many other things that i thought it worthwhile to mention to everyone who may read my blog i did not realize how insidious satan is in the lies he tells he has slowly pulled the whole world down towards hell and therefore we see examples all around us of those lies i promise that the lord s love and mercy is so much greater than we realize his divine love is not putting us on a rating scale we are all loved as his children even though we have made mistakes and he does not love nor accept our sins the article fulfilled it s purpose it reminded me of our heavenly father s and our savior s divine love for me it provided me hope and joy and peace by reminding me of the lord s mercy and redemption posted by russell at 10 18 am no 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