“The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant-the heart of the plan of salvation- is the Atonement of Jesus Christ,” said Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve during the April 2001 general conference.
“Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house. Our efforts to proclaim the gospel, perfect the Saints, and redeem the dead all lead to the temple. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families. “President Hinckley said that ‘these unique and wonderful buildings, and the ordinances administered therein, represent the ultimate in our worship. These ordinances become the most profound expressions of our theology.’
“To enter the temple is tremendous blessing. But first we must be worthy. We should not be rushed. We cannot cut corners of preparation and risk the breaking of covenants we were not prepared to make. That would be worse than not making them at all…..”As temples are prepared for our members, our members need to prepare for the temple.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Visiting Teaching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkG1W0GeF_c
Attached is the link for the "visiting teaching movie". It is a pretty funny, realistic (sad, but true) and an inspirational message about visiting teaching.
And remember, please take the challenge to try and improve just one thing about your visiting teaching calling.. whether it's being more consistent, picking up the phone instead of emailing, praying with your companion, starting early or reporting when you are finished to your visiting teaching supervisor.
Thanks again sisters - You are loved!
Attached is the link for the "visiting teaching movie". It is a pretty funny, realistic (sad, but true) and an inspirational message about visiting teaching.
And remember, please take the challenge to try and improve just one thing about your visiting teaching calling.. whether it's being more consistent, picking up the phone instead of emailing, praying with your companion, starting early or reporting when you are finished to your visiting teaching supervisor.
Thanks again sisters - You are loved!
From Stephanie
LDS Night at SF
The BYU Alumni invites you and your family to enjoy a night out at the ballpark!
LDS Night at the San Francisco Giants
Tuesday, June 15th
5:30 Pre-game entertainment at SF Giants County Fair
6:45 Pre-game family history presentation in ballpark before first pitch
7:15 Game vs. Baltimore Orioles
LDS entertainers, including Showbiz (www.showbizsite.info) and Brooke White, American Idol Top 5 finalist, will perform at pre-game festivities on the site of the SF Giants County Fair located just outside the ballpark by McCovey Cove. Brooke will also sing during the 7th inning stretch.
A Church Area Authority will present Mike "Kruk" Krukow, with his personal family tree, during a pre-game ceremony before the 1st pitch of the game.
"LDS Night" tickets are available at the following prices:
- $30 Lower Box (sections 129 & 130)
- $20 Lower Box Corner (sections 134 & 135)
- $13 Bleachers -or- View Reserved, Infield
To order tickets, call the SF Giants sales department at 415-972-2298. Mention "LDS Night" to receive the discount pricing listed above.
Special rates are available for group ticket orders of greater than 25 and 100. To order, contact Cameron Lochte at 415-972-2254.
LDS Night at the San Francisco Giants
Tuesday, June 15th
5:30 Pre-game entertainment at SF Giants County Fair
6:45 Pre-game family history presentation in ballpark before first pitch
7:15 Game vs. Baltimore Orioles
LDS entertainers, including Showbiz (www.showbizsite.info) and Brooke White, American Idol Top 5 finalist, will perform at pre-game festivities on the site of the SF Giants County Fair located just outside the ballpark by McCovey Cove. Brooke will also sing during the 7th inning stretch.
A Church Area Authority will present Mike "Kruk" Krukow, with his personal family tree, during a pre-game ceremony before the 1st pitch of the game.
"LDS Night" tickets are available at the following prices:
- $30 Lower Box (sections 129 & 130)
- $20 Lower Box Corner (sections 134 & 135)
- $13 Bleachers -or- View Reserved, Infield
To order tickets, call the SF Giants sales department at 415-972-2298. Mention "LDS Night" to receive the discount pricing listed above.
Special rates are available for group ticket orders of greater than 25 and 100. To order, contact Cameron Lochte at 415-972-2254.
LDS Night at the San Francisco Giants
Thought for the Day
“Always remember him” means that we do not live our lives in fear. We know that challenges, disappointments, and sorrows will come to each of us in different ways, but we also know that in the end, because of our divine Advocate, all things can be made to work together for our good (see D&C 90-24 and 98:3). It is the faith expressed so simply by President Gordon B. Hinckley when he would say, “Things will work out.” Because we always remember the Savior, we can “cheerfully do all things that lie in our power,” confident that His power and love for us will see us through.. Now I bless you that you will be able to always remember our incomparable and divine Redeemer – that you will feel the need and be able to discern and follow His will in all aspects of your life, so that increasingly you will be one with Him as He is one with the Father; that you will always retain an awareness of your accountability to the Lord to sustain you in your fight against temptation or where needed, in your repentance of any sin or misdeed; and finally, that you will always have with you the quiet assurance of His love and grace that will enable you to withstand the assaults of the adversary and his supporters and to feel the comfort and reality of your Lord’s protecting care. I bless you that the promise to those who always remember Him – “that they may always have his spirit to be with them” (D&C 20:77) – will be fully realized in your life. I bear witness of the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I bear witness of the reality of the living, resurrected Lord. I bear witness of the infinite and personal love of the Father and the Son for each of you and pray that you will live in constant remembrance of that love in all its expressions.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Marinos Farewell
It’s a farewell party for the Marinos Family before moving to San Clemente.
Come drop by FRIDAY from 6-8 pm in the Parmenter’s backyard.
45 Estella Court (plenty of parking along First Ave. near Larkey Tennis Courts as only 5 cars can park on the cul-de-sac).
We’ll have a snack table with finger foods to munch on if you would like to bring something to share.
Come drop by FRIDAY from 6-8 pm in the Parmenter’s backyard.
45 Estella Court (plenty of parking along First Ave. near Larkey Tennis Courts as only 5 cars can park on the cul-de-sac).
We’ll have a snack table with finger foods to munch on if you would like to bring something to share.
Thanks,
- From Elena Parmenter
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Family history moments: Door after door
For several years, I kept feeling my aunt's presence. It was as if I could hear her saying, "You need to get back to Church so you can have my temple work done. I want to be sealed to Daddy."
I started going back to Church. The ward was offering a class on New FamilySearch. I came home and asked my husband, who is not a member of the Church, if I should take it. He excitedly said, "Yes, but do my side. Call my aunt and have her send you a CD of what she has."
My husband's aunt and I got together, and I was shocked to see all the information she had on Shupe family history. She said there was a woman in Salt Lake City who had even more and that she would try to find her telephone number.
The next week, I was looking at records on a microfilm full of Shupe family history. On a hunch, I tried to contact the name of the person in Mesa, Ariz., who had donated the records. I didn't find his number from directory assistance, but I asked for contact information for the five other Shupes listed in Mesa. I called the last name on the list. She gave me contact information for someone else, who in turn told me that her cousin in Salt Lake City had all of the Shupe genealogy. It was the same person my husband's aunt had mentioned, but now I finally had her address and telephone number. When I called her, she was so sweet and very helpful. She has over 200,000 names of Shupe relatives and family history.
On April 27, 2010, I went to the temple for the first time in about 20 years. I was able to do the work for my aunt, a deceased cousin and some of the Shupe family. I know there was rejoicing that night.
I keep saying this is the kind of story that other people experience in doing family history, not a recently activated person like me. When I think about it, I know that the Lord loves me and He is the one that opened door after door. — Melinda Cobb Shupe, Layton, Utah
I started going back to Church. The ward was offering a class on New FamilySearch. I came home and asked my husband, who is not a member of the Church, if I should take it. He excitedly said, "Yes, but do my side. Call my aunt and have her send you a CD of what she has."
My husband's aunt and I got together, and I was shocked to see all the information she had on Shupe family history. She said there was a woman in Salt Lake City who had even more and that she would try to find her telephone number.
The next week, I was looking at records on a microfilm full of Shupe family history. On a hunch, I tried to contact the name of the person in Mesa, Ariz., who had donated the records. I didn't find his number from directory assistance, but I asked for contact information for the five other Shupes listed in Mesa. I called the last name on the list. She gave me contact information for someone else, who in turn told me that her cousin in Salt Lake City had all of the Shupe genealogy. It was the same person my husband's aunt had mentioned, but now I finally had her address and telephone number. When I called her, she was so sweet and very helpful. She has over 200,000 names of Shupe relatives and family history.
On April 27, 2010, I went to the temple for the first time in about 20 years. I was able to do the work for my aunt, a deceased cousin and some of the Shupe family. I know there was rejoicing that night.
I keep saying this is the kind of story that other people experience in doing family history, not a recently activated person like me. When I think about it, I know that the Lord loves me and He is the one that opened door after door. — Melinda Cobb Shupe, Layton, Utah
A thought from the scriptures
"Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence." — Doctrine and Covenants 4:6
"Kindness is the essence of a celestial life. Kindness is how a Christlike person treats others. Kindness should permeate all of our words and actions at work, at school, at church and especially in our homes," Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said in the April 2005 general conference address.
"The things you say, the tone of your voice, the anger or calm of your words — these things are noticed by your children and by others. They see and learn both the kind and the unkind things we say or do. Nothing exposes our true selves more than how we treat one another in the home."
"Kindness is the essence of a celestial life. Kindness is how a Christlike person treats others. Kindness should permeate all of our words and actions at work, at school, at church and especially in our homes," Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said in the April 2005 general conference address.
"The things you say, the tone of your voice, the anger or calm of your words — these things are noticed by your children and by others. They see and learn both the kind and the unkind things we say or do. Nothing exposes our true selves more than how we treat one another in the home."
Gossip: Don't pass it on
A New Era magazine's "Mormonad" is illustrated by a line of hands dripping with black paint. It is obvious that as the tainted hand touches a clean hand, the clean hand is instantly stained.
The message, titled "Gossip, don't pass it on," is simple: If you come in contact with harsh words spoken about another, wash your hands before you inadvertently – or even deliberately – pass those words to another and leave your hands stained by the experience.
In essence, we must watch what we say because our words will leave a mark – for good or ill – on those with whom we come into contact.
The scriptures are clear on the subject. The Psalmist taught, "keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile" (Psalm 34:13). The Savior, in establishing the laws of the Restored Church, said, "Thou shalt not speak evil of thy neighbor, nor do him any harm" (Doctrine and Covenants 42:27).
And Solomon noted that ill-spoken words become the kindling of contention:
"Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
"As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife" (Proverbs 26:20-22).
It's a principle we should all take to heart.
"It seems common practice for people to talk about their friends and neighbors and to criticize their seeming peculiarities and weaknesses," said President N. Eldon Tanner, then second counselor in the First Presidency in 1972. "In fact, it is so general that one would think that gossiping about and judging others was the thing to do. …"
But, he explained, "gossip is the worst form of judging."
"The tongue is the most dangerous, destructive and deadly weapon available to man. ... We never gain anything or improve our own character by trying to tear down another" ("Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged," Ensign, July 1972).
President Tanner said when he witnessed harsh words spoken, he often turned his thoughts to a hymn:
Let each man learn to know himself;
To gain that knowledge let him labor,
Improve those failings in himself
Which he condemns so in his neighbor.
How lenient our own faults we view,
And conscience's voice adeptly smother;
Yet, oh, how harshly we review
The selfsame failings in another! …
So first improve yourself today
And then improve your friends tomorrow (Hymns, no. 91, 1950 printing).
President Thomas S. Monson said it takes courage to avoid gossip and judging others.
"Oh, you may ask, 'Does this really take courage?' " he said. "And I would reply that I believe there are many times when refraining from judgment — or gossip or criticism, which are certainly akin to judgment — takes an act of courage.
"Unfortunately, there are those who feel it necessary to criticize and to belittle others. You have, no doubt, been with such people, as you will be in the future. … We are not left to wonder what our behavior should be in such situations. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Savior declared, 'Judge not.' At a later time, He admonished, 'Cease to find fault one with another.' It will take real courage when you are surrounded by your peers and feeling the pressure to participate in such criticisms and judgments to refrain from joining in" ("May You Have Courage," General Young Women Meeting, March 28, 2009; Ensign, May 2009, 123).
President David O. McKay said the process needs to start in our homes.
"But there are destructive termites of homes, and some of these are backbiting, evil-speaking and faultfinding on the part either of parents or of children," he said.
"Slander is poison to the soul. In the ideal home, there is no slanderous gossip about schoolteachers, about public officials or about Church officials. I am more grateful now, after years have come and gone, to my father, who with hands lifted said, 'Now, no faultfinding about your teacher or anybody else' " ("Our Greatest Obligation," Ensign, October 1972).
But the greatest problem with gossip is illustrated effectively in that Mormonad. Like the black paint, once words have left us to be passed to others by the people we taint, they cannot be reclaimed.
In the Miracle of Forgiveness, President Spencer W. Kimball wrote: "Lies and gossip, which harm reputations, are scattered about by the four winds like the seeds of a ripe dandelion held aloft by a child. Neither the seeds nor the gossip can ever be gathered in. The degree and extent of the harm done by the gossip is inestimable" (page 54).
Avoiding gossip is a simple way to ensure that our words will not leave stains on the hands of another.
The message, titled "Gossip, don't pass it on," is simple: If you come in contact with harsh words spoken about another, wash your hands before you inadvertently – or even deliberately – pass those words to another and leave your hands stained by the experience.
In essence, we must watch what we say because our words will leave a mark – for good or ill – on those with whom we come into contact.
The scriptures are clear on the subject. The Psalmist taught, "keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile" (Psalm 34:13). The Savior, in establishing the laws of the Restored Church, said, "Thou shalt not speak evil of thy neighbor, nor do him any harm" (Doctrine and Covenants 42:27).
And Solomon noted that ill-spoken words become the kindling of contention:
"Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
"As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife" (Proverbs 26:20-22).
It's a principle we should all take to heart.
"It seems common practice for people to talk about their friends and neighbors and to criticize their seeming peculiarities and weaknesses," said President N. Eldon Tanner, then second counselor in the First Presidency in 1972. "In fact, it is so general that one would think that gossiping about and judging others was the thing to do. …"
But, he explained, "gossip is the worst form of judging."
"The tongue is the most dangerous, destructive and deadly weapon available to man. ... We never gain anything or improve our own character by trying to tear down another" ("Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged," Ensign, July 1972).
President Tanner said when he witnessed harsh words spoken, he often turned his thoughts to a hymn:
Let each man learn to know himself;
To gain that knowledge let him labor,
Improve those failings in himself
Which he condemns so in his neighbor.
How lenient our own faults we view,
And conscience's voice adeptly smother;
Yet, oh, how harshly we review
The selfsame failings in another! …
So first improve yourself today
And then improve your friends tomorrow (Hymns, no. 91, 1950 printing).
President Thomas S. Monson said it takes courage to avoid gossip and judging others.
"Oh, you may ask, 'Does this really take courage?' " he said. "And I would reply that I believe there are many times when refraining from judgment — or gossip or criticism, which are certainly akin to judgment — takes an act of courage.
"Unfortunately, there are those who feel it necessary to criticize and to belittle others. You have, no doubt, been with such people, as you will be in the future. … We are not left to wonder what our behavior should be in such situations. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Savior declared, 'Judge not.' At a later time, He admonished, 'Cease to find fault one with another.' It will take real courage when you are surrounded by your peers and feeling the pressure to participate in such criticisms and judgments to refrain from joining in" ("May You Have Courage," General Young Women Meeting, March 28, 2009; Ensign, May 2009, 123).
President David O. McKay said the process needs to start in our homes.
"But there are destructive termites of homes, and some of these are backbiting, evil-speaking and faultfinding on the part either of parents or of children," he said.
"Slander is poison to the soul. In the ideal home, there is no slanderous gossip about schoolteachers, about public officials or about Church officials. I am more grateful now, after years have come and gone, to my father, who with hands lifted said, 'Now, no faultfinding about your teacher or anybody else' " ("Our Greatest Obligation," Ensign, October 1972).
But the greatest problem with gossip is illustrated effectively in that Mormonad. Like the black paint, once words have left us to be passed to others by the people we taint, they cannot be reclaimed.
In the Miracle of Forgiveness, President Spencer W. Kimball wrote: "Lies and gossip, which harm reputations, are scattered about by the four winds like the seeds of a ripe dandelion held aloft by a child. Neither the seeds nor the gossip can ever be gathered in. The degree and extent of the harm done by the gossip is inestimable" (page 54).
Avoiding gossip is a simple way to ensure that our words will not leave stains on the hands of another.
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