Notes to remember

Some things from Stake Women's Day that I want to remember:

From the general assembly:

• if you're focused on "doing" and not on "becoming" then you're seeking to fool yourself and others, by reading your scriptures and going to church, etc, but not letting your heart be touched by the spirit. We have to worry more about becoming the person we want to be, which we can only DO by putting combining the doing with becoming.


• the only thing we can quickly become is angry, contentious, offended. Becoming Christlike, or becoming anything worthwhile, takes time and we need to give ourselves credit for every little progress we make.

From Colleen's workshop

• Story of Abraham and Lot. Lot pitched his tent facing Sodom. He knew it was bad to be IN Sodom (at first) but still wanted a front-row seat, so he could watch what it was Sodom was doing. Later, when he was captured and held in the city, Abraham's household attacked the city to save Lot, and also managed to save the King of the city who was being held captive as well. The King offered Abraham all the goods of the city, asking to keep the people for himself, and Abraham's response was that he wanted not one thread, nor one shoe latchet from the city. Abraham forsook everything to do with Sodom and Gomorrah, was blessed for it.


• I felt the strong need to read scriptures and have FHE as a family during her workshop.

From Peggy's workshop

• read Tad Callister's book on the atonement, with the foreward by Rob Millet


• We MUST think about all of the negative things in the world, can't turn a blind eye to them if we are to ever understand Christ's atoning sacrifice. We need to acknowledge them so that we can gain a testimony that, not only did Christ suffer for a person's wrongs, but that he suffered for the pain that person felt at their wrongdoing as well as for the pains of all those that person affected. We need to understand this so that we know we can RUN to him, not because he can imagine what it'd be like, but because he KNOWS what it is like, because he suffered for it. Every possible terrible or trying thing we could possibly experience, He has suffered for, and we can run to the Savior with all of our sorrows and cares.


• When the Savior was in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross, we were still in the premortal life. Imagine every spirit focusing their attention on that great event. We KNEW it was happening, we KNEW what depended on it, and we were waiting with bated breath. Imagine our joy, knowing what he did for us, the gratitude we already felt before coming to this earth. At that time we looked ahead to the atonement and our life here on the earth, and now we look back on it, hopefully with the same gratitude and excitement, even if we have passed through the veil and can't remember where we were ourselves at the time the atonement was being wrought on our behalf.


• "If you don't like a person, you don't know them well enough." (Elder Maxwell)