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Matthew 18:2-5
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
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Hope your Sunday was the Best! 
Love, Joy

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My young friend Karen gave a talk in church recently and she talked about how excited she was when she got up one morning for school. The reason she was excited, is because she was having a test that day.

 Well, really, the reason she was excited about the 
test, was that 
she knew the answers to the 
test
 she would be taking. She had studied and was prepared and ready. Then she went on to say, “This life is a 
test! We can be excited about this 
test
because we know the answers!” She went on to tell us that even if we don’t have the answers right now,  life is an open book 
test. If we don’t know the answer to a particular question we know were to find them. 
Where do we find the answers? Inspired family and friends. In God’s word, the scriptures. Studying the life of our Savior. What would Jesus do? 
Listen to God’s prophets and apostles! Listen to our living prophet, Thomas S. Monson. I am so excited for my 
test! I know I will do great with all of this help! You will do great too! I know you will! 
Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy

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“We are the Lord’s hands

 here upon the earth, with a mandate to serve and lift His children. 
He is dependent upon each of us.”
                         -Thomas S. Monson

“God does notice us, and 
He watches over us. But it is 
usually through another person 
that He meets our needs.” 
-Spencer W. Kimball

“And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only 
in the service of your God.” 
-King Benjamin, Mosiah 2:17

“By love serve ye one another.”
-Apostle Paul, Galations  5:13

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Service is… Love!


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-Lesson given by my friend, Laura-

Thoughts from “Charity Never Faileth” by Thomas S. Monson, Sept. 2010
Main Ideas- 
Part A:
1. No one is perfect…”and yet for some reason, despite our own imperfections, we have a tendency to point out those of others”.
2. There is no way to know the a) heart, b) intentions, c) circumstances behind someone’s actions [we don’t have all the facts].
3. “Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person”.
4. “Each of you is unique”…the differences are endless. Do these differences tempt us to judge one another?
Mother Teresa said, “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Part B:
Instead of judging, President Monson admonishes us to focus on the following:
“I consider charity-or ‘the pure love of Christ’-to be the opposite of criticism and judging”

  • Charity is tolerant of others and lenient toward their actions
  • Charity forgives
  • Charity is patient with someone who has let us down
  • Charity impels us to be sympathetic
  • Charity is compassionate 
  • Charity is merciful in time of weakness or error on the part of others
  • Charity gives attention to those who are unnoticed
  • Charity gives hope to those who are discouraged
  • Charity aids those who are afflicted 
  • Charity does not gossip
  • Charity resists the impulse to become offended easily
  • Charity accepts weaknesses and shortcomings in ourselves and others
  • Charity accepts people as they truly are
  • Charity looks beyond physical appearances toward attributes
  • Charity resists the impulse to categorize others
  • Charity manifests itself in a hundred small ways
“Life is perfect for none of us. Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life.” -Thomas S. Monson
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What a great lesson! Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy

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Matthew 5:14-16
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 
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I absolutely love 

James E. Talmage!!

 Here is one of my favorite stories that he wrote. Enjoy!

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 The Parable of 

Two Lamps

Among the material things of the past—things that I treasure for sweet memory’s sake and because of pleasant association in bygone days—is a lamp. …
The lamp of which I speak, the student lamp of my school and college days, was one of the best of its kind. I had bought it with hard-earned savings; it was counted among my most cherished possessions. …
One summer evening I sat musing studiously and withal restfully in the open air outside the door of the room in which I lodged and studied. A stranger approached. I noticed that he carried a satchel. He was affable and entertaining. I brought another chair from within, and we chatted together till the twilight had deepened into dusk, the dusk into darkness.
Then he said: “You are a student and doubtless have much work to do of nights. What kind of lamp do you use?” And without waiting for a reply, he continued, “I have a superior kind of lamp I should like to show you, a lamp designed and constructed according to the latest achievements of applied science, far surpassing anything heretofore produced as a means of artificial lighting.”
I replied with confidence, and I confess, not without some exultation: “My friend, I have a lamp, one that has been tested and proved. It has been to me a companion through many a long night. It is an Argand lamp, and one of the best. I have trimmed and cleaned it today; it is ready for the lighting. Step inside; I will show you my lamp; then you may tell me whether yours can possibly be better.”
We entered my study room, and with a feeling which I assume is akin to that of the athlete about to enter a contest with one whom he regards as a pitiably inferior opponent, I put the match to my well-trimmed Argand.
My visitor was voluble in his praise. It was the best lamp of its kind, he said. He averred that he had never seen a lamp in better trim. He turned the wick up and down and pronounced the adjustment perfect. He declared that never before had he realized how satisfactory a student lamp could be.
I liked the man; he seemed to me wise, and he assuredly was ingratiating. “Love me, love my lamp,” I thought, mentally paraphrasing a common expression of the period.
“Now,” said he, “with your permission I’ll light my lamp.” He took from his satchel a lamp then known as the “Rochester.” It had a chimney which, compared with mine, was as a factory smokestack alongside a house flue. Its hollow wick was wide enough to admit my four fingers. Its light made bright the remotest corner of my room. In its brilliant blaze my own little Argand wick burned a weak, pale yellow. Until that moment of convincing demonstration, I had never known the dim obscurity in which I had lived and labored, studied and struggled.
“I’ll buy your lamp,” said I; “you need neither explain nor argue further.” I took my new acquisition to the laboratory that same night and determined its capacity. It turned at over 48 candlepower—fully four times the intensity of my student lamp.
Two days after purchasing, I met the lamp peddler on the street about noontime. To my inquiry he replied that business was good; the demand for his lamps was greater than the factory supply. “But,” said I, “you are not working today?” His rejoinder was a lesson. “Do you think that I would be so foolish as to go around trying to sell lamps in the daytime? Would you have bought one if I had lighted it for you when the sun was shining? I chose the time to show the superiority of my lamp over yours, and you were eager to own the better one I offered, were you not?”
Such is the story. Now consider the application of a part, a very small part, thereof.
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” [Matt. 5:16].
The man who would sell me a lamp did not disparage mine. He placed his greater light alongside my feebler flame, and I hasted to obtain the better.
The missionary servants of the Church of Jesus Christ today are sent forth, not to assail or ridicule the beliefs of men, but to set before the world a superior light, by which the smoky dimness of the flickering flames of man-made creeds shall be apparent. The work of the Church is constructive, not destructive.
As to the further meaning of the parable, let him that hath eyes and a heart see and understand.
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-3 Nephi 14:2-5-
“With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the mote out of thine eye—and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye”
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Stephen R. Covey says that people who have a tendency judge have the “mote and beam sickness.” It is human nature to look for the faults in others. But can we change others? No. We can only change ourselves. Like Mahatma Ghandi said, “We can be the change we want to see in the world.” When we have removed the beam from our own eye, then we can see clearly what we need to do to help our brother (and sister) with the mote in their eye.
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“The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.”
-Stephen R Covey