What Scriptures Should I Use and Why?

Scripture Reading Schedule

How to Use it Year After Year

Scripture Reading Schedule

How to Install it

Jerusalem movie filmed in IMAX 3D

Come with us to the Holy Land & Egypt in 2017 and see this in person!

For those who have gone on Bruce and Pat’s tours to the Holy Land, this 7 minute movie trailer of the giant IMAX 3D movie which came out in 2013 called JERUSALEM will bring back warm memories of where we were.

And for those who haven’t gone on this Holy Land Tour with us, let us know when you would like to go by clicking here. Our next one will be in 2017. Because our tours are customized ones, we will go usually spring or fall. In 2017 we are planning on a March departure. It’s your tour of a lifetime!

How to Install Them

To see how to install the Scripture Index Strips (SIS), see the videos called “Scripture Index Strips – What Are They and Why Do I Need Them,” and “Scripture Index Strips – An Advanced Marking Technique for Scriptures without Thumb Indexes.”

 

2012 January 26

Last night at Institute I talked about the 2060 Stripling Warriors.  I am especially fond of the story because it’s about boys who listened to their mothers!  Momma’s Boys! But I am sure there were daughters, too, and they must have been just as valiant because valiant sons help daughters to be valiant and valiant daughters help sons to be valiant.  These kids weren’t just valiant, though.  They were “exceedingly valiant.” (Alma 53:20) Exceedingly!!!!

Some of you have probably heard me tell about my experience with the story…..when Gina started school I decided to read the Book of Mormon every day.  I was especially touched by this story, which, by the way, starts in Alma 53.

Back in the day, armies chose who they wanted to be their military leaders and these boys (ages 14-20 approx.) chose Helaman, who was only about 33 himself.  I have never realized it before, but Helaman was the president of the Church!  (Good choice, boys!)   He called them his sons and they referred to him as their father.

Where were their real fathers?  Well, remember that their fathers are the ones who made an oath to never shed blood again and buried their weapons of war – the Anti-Nephi-Lehies.  After 14 years under the protection of the Nephites, they wanted to contribute to the war effort. Since they couldn’t actually fight, they became the support system for the Nephites.  They worked in the fields to supply food and helped however they could in other ways.  There were so many Lamanite prisoners to feed as well as the families of the Nephite soldiers that it required a lot from them and they were away from their homes for a long time as the wars went on and on.

I thought and thought about those families and those righteous children.  How had the parents done such a good job of raising them?  How?  I wanted children fit for the army of Helaman, too.  So I started praying about it and continued praying about it for a long time.  My prayers were answered in many, many ways over a long period of time.

Here, in a nutshell, is what has God told me.  Those Mothers (and fathers) didn’t know anything we don’t know!  We have prophets and apostles and scriptures, and the Ensign, and the programs of the Church, and every opportunity and ability to know what God would have us do as parents.  The only thing the people of Ammon had (their name was changed to that from Anti-Nephi-Lehies) was more doing!

Sometimes we even think that what we are told to do is so inconsequential that it won’t make a difference.  But “by small means the Lord can bring about great things.”  1 Nephi 16:29

Follow the prophet, read scriptures every day, have FHE, say your prayers!  I promise you those are the very things those mothers did…..but they did it with exactness and soberness and consistency. They were firm and undaunted, faithful and obedient and believed God.  Their children did not doubt that their mothers knew it (Alma 56:47-48), and then the children knew it, too!

Those 2060 young men went into battle and they weren’t afraid to die!  They didn’t want to die, but realized that some things are important enough to give your life for so they went forward with courage and faith!  Alma 57:25 says that

 

“two hundred . . . fainted because of the loss of blood; nevertheless, according to the goodness of God, and to our great astonishment, and also the joy of our whole army, there was not one soul of them who did perish; yea, and neither was there one soul among them who had not received many wounds.”

They ALL received many wounds.

I have a poster that says:  “God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.”

Scars show that you were in the fight, believed in something and took a stand!

We cannot be passive today!  We have to fight with the same conviction and energy as those families did.  We live in the time of war…..war that has been going on since the pre-existence….physical wars and wars for our spirits and those of our children.  We have to fight! And our weapons are the scriptures and FHE and prayer. They are also our armor.

Would you call yourself “exceedingly valiant?”

This is the testimony of your mother/grandmother, mother-in-law….. the Church is true and it matters that you do these things to strengthen yourself and keep yourself safe!  It’s worth dying for, yes, but also worth every courageous sacrifice you can make all through your life to keep the commandments!

I just couldn’t give that lesson last night and not join with those righteous families in Helaman’s time to let you know that your Momma knows it, too, and I pray for all of us to be exceeding valiant!

I love you all.  You are my valiant Saturday’s Warriors!

MOM/Pat/Trish/Grandma

2011 September 27

Have you heard about this????

“One Million Moms (an organization) has been frantically emailing ABC to let them know they don’t want Chaz Bono or any LGBT “subjects” being forced into their homes.”   …..via Dancing with the Stars.

What’s your position on this?

Do the One Million Moms email about the Underwear Problem on Survivor?  Or the nuclear proliferation of swear words.  Or the blatantly sexualized plots of most sit-coms.  Or the ubiquitous beer and other unmentionable advertisements.  They should! And how do they feel about the teeny-tiny costumes worn by the women?

Maybe they do….I just don’t know.

AND THEN THERE’S THE DUDE (dud) ON THE X-FACTOR.  Apparently, we almost saw what was underthere beneath the underwear.  (Poor, poor Paula.)  …………..TV’s gonna have to go in the closet, soon!

What new TV shows are YOU watching?

What better way is there to unwind and spend your time?

I might suggest studying the scriptures.  Don’t laugh!  It’s pretty fun.  (Also, I have that fear, you know, the one about the frogs!)

You know what the iron rod represents, right?  Sing it with me….”the iron rod is the wo-rr-rrd of God….”  Scriptures!  And prophets!  We have 15 of them who will speak this weekend.  Yesterday, our home teachers challenged us to be able to remember and relate what they are suggesting we remember and do for the next 6 months. Dad had a good idea….jot down a sentence or two beside each of the brothers names that will remind you what they say.  Make yourself an insert page for your scriptures!  Look at it often.  Evaluate yourself.  Change.  Do better.  Be consistent and six months from now you will be happier!  It’s a promise.  Who’s with me and the Brewster?

I’m a General Conference FAN!  Are you?

Have a spectacular week, everybody!

Mom/Pat/Trish/Grandma