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Primary Program

My how they grow!!
I almost made it through the whole thing without crying. But start to sing the last song "Thank thee O God for a Prophet" and I start choking up.
Elizabeth had one line "My favorite story of Jesus is when Jesus blesses the children... suffer little children and come unto me."
She did GREAT!! Last year she spent the whole time backwards in her seat and didn't sing any of the songs or say her line. So this year was a great improvement!!
She gives her first talk next week.

Some of you may not think that the Primary Program is all that important to the big scheme of things. It's just cute and gives them the practice and experience to speak in front of people. It was last years P.P. that made it possible for me to bring Elizabeth to church every Sunday. Before I could only take E with me when Jeff wasn't home. He came to her program, and yes I thought "Oh No, he'll never let me take her now," she sat backwards the whole time. But, something spoke to his heart and I've brought her ever since.

Repentence!

My Sunday school lesson was on repentance; I teach the 16-I'm off to college crowd. we often here to "repent often" now that's all well a good if your "bad" often but I am under the impression that we shouldn't repent until we won't do that "bad" thing again.

Ezra Taft Benson said in 1988 "Repentance means more than simply a reformation of behavior. many men and women in the world demonstrate great will-power and self-discipline in overcoming great habits and the weaknesses of the flesh. Yet at the same time they give no thought to the Master, sometimes even openly rejecting Him. Such changes of behavior, even if in a positive direction, do not constitute true repentance....True repentance is based on and flows form faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other way. True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior"

I think if you repent with out really committing to it and making the covenant with our Heavenly Father than you're taking the fact the Christ died for granted. I feel when we do that we hurt Christ even more. He died so we could be forgiven and when we take a nonchalant attitude about it seems like we don't care. Now this is my opinion; but I don't think we should ask for forgiveness if it's not something we can really stop doing or saying or whatever it is.

The lesson was on Samuel the Lamanite beseeching the Nephites to come back to the Lord. I think of Mel Gibson's movie Apocolypto while reading this. During this time the Nephites had their eyes to the world and they're was a great curse on the land, same as the movie. I was very impressed with this movie it brought the Book of Mormon to life. If you haven't seen it and you can get past the "National Geographic" type nudity and the beheadings than watch it. The Lamanites (and at this point in the Book of Mormon the Nephites) will come alive.

I also can't help but think where we are at in the world. Are our eyes on the Lord or the world? 2 questions in my lesson are In what ways so people give more time and attention to worldly concerns than to spiritual concerns? How can we assess whether we are giving enough attention to our spiritual welfare?

Hide Your guns, stock pile money....

Hide your guns, stop working it won't pay off, stash money somewhere in your house, and make sure you have at least 3 month supply of food and water!
I was watching the end of the campaign last night and was not completely surprised, except for the fact that Barak was announced president 1 min after the polls closed aver here. When will they do away with this electoral college anyway! I was watching on NBC (the only station coming in clear enough) and there was a black man very excited, as he should be, The thing that he said 3 times that bothered me was that "Our constitution was pro slavery" I was shocked at those words, I mean what does "We The People" mean to this man! It makes me nervous that our constitution will changed. I will respect the office no matter who takes the title. I hope I can show my respect for the office a ton more than the media has shown the office while President Bush has had the title!