Sunday we gave Brother Johnson the Holy Ghost and baptized him on Saturday (he's just turned 8), the Sprit was awesome and a lot of people came out to see it, we also had some investigators come and now they are pretty interested as well.
The main lesson we teach to these 8 year olds is pretty simple. It's how we can choose to love the Lord and serve him.
We have three cups: 1 full of rice, 1 full of rocks, and 1 empty. Rocks are important priorities that the Lord wants us to do, rice is the trivial things. The empty one is our time here in this life.
If we put the rice in first, you can't fit in the rocks, and the Lord has said that if we don't have time for him here, why should he have time for us? But if we do it the opposite way, putting the rocks and important things in first, the rice falls around the rocks and everything fits. So, rice and rocks go together like socks, but rice and air makes you want to stare. Got it!!!
It's a simple lesson but has so much truth to it. The Lord has given us this alotted time on Earth, He will provide opportunities for us, I know it's true. I know the blessings that come from the temple. My family has been richly blessed because of the choices we've made.
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So what is this, a spoof?
ReplyDelete"It's a simple lesson but has so much truth to it."
ReplyDeleteOnly liars, such as the intellectuals and people with lots of dandruff, seek the more complicated tumbling stones.
Love, love, love your blog and posts, E. Grandy.
Your brother in Christ,
Ryan.
"So what is this, a spoof?"
ReplyDeleteThis is 100% real, Brother Joel. I'm glad you could make it here.
"Only liars, such as the intellectuals and people with lots of dandruff, seek the more complicated tumbling stones."
Right on, Brother Ryan. There's nothing worse than a prideful intellectual, maybe when ice cream runs down your shirt ;-)
I love the Lord!!!
so what happens if you have no other alternative to milk before meat?
ReplyDeleteso what happens if you have no other alternative to milk before meat?
ReplyDeleteThen you probably want to make that milk into ice cream :-)
In order to truly understand what we have to know in this life (there's not much, by the way). Then we have to chop up the meat into little pieces, little tiny pieces so even babies can eat the meat, so fine and mushy, almost like milk. Tastes so good.
Then, once the meat is cut up and smashed to power, we can add a bit of flour and some eggs, which makes something yummy to eat, like a breakfast burrito from Mcdonalds.
That's how we can have an alternative, Anon, by dicing and slicing the meat to make breakfast burritos.