Moral Courage

Kinda last minute... But I'm teaching the Relief Society presidency lesson tomorrow. Months ago, I chose to base my lesson on this much-loved CES Fireside by President Packer: http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1673. The talk really impacted me when he gave it seven-plus years ago at BYU. I was fresh off my mission, and wrestling with how to maintain high standards without coming across as self-righteous.

Does anyone have any insights or connections to share?

(Really cool note... Elder Bednar also gave a talk on Lehi's dream one month later, and Elder Anderson gave a talk on Lehi's dream the month after that. See http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1684 and http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1686.)

Lessons from Eve

I really enjoyed this talk "Lessons from Eve," by Elder Nelson for my personal study.  I needed a good talk on motherhood after a long day of chasing Jimmy around.  Anyway, there are a lot of great lessons and stories.  I thought this one was pretty funny.

"For a short time during the first year of our marriage, Sister Nelson maintained two jobs while I was in medical school. Before her paychecks had arrived, we found ourselves owing more than our funds could defray. So we took advantage of an option then available to sell blood at $25 a pint. In an interval between her daytime job as a schoolteacher and her evening work as a clerk in a music store, we went to the hospital and each sold a pint of blood. As the needle was withdrawn from her arm, she said to me, “Don’t forget to pay tithing on my blood money.” (When her mother learned I was bleeding her daughter between two jobs, I sensed at that time she may not have been too pleased with her new son-in-law.) Such obedience was a tremendous lesson to me. Sister Nelson’s commitment to tithe became my commitment, too."

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1987/10/lessons-from-eve?lang=eng&query=motherhood