"Living After the Manner of Happiness"

http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2014_09_23_holland.htm

So beautiful

I'm teaching on Sunday, and in doing some last-minute preparations I came across this beautiful talk from Elder Scott. It touched my heart: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/04/temple-worship-the-source-of-strength-and-power-in-times-of-need?lang=eng

Culture, Law, and Religious Liberty

BYU Magazine arrived today. I really liked this commentary: https://www.mesacc.edu/students/tutoring/online-tutoring. I especially like the way the author compared Brown v. Board of Education with Roe v. Wade and drew implications from it.

Ponderize Week 2

This week I will be ponderizing Alma 12: 33-34.

Let's Ponderize together!

Let's share the verses we choose to "ponderize" and insights or experience we experience as a result!

I plan to ponderize Alma 12:14-15 this week.  :)

Keeping Covenants

I'm giving the presidency lesson in Relief Society on November 1, and I plan to teach about keeping covenants (both baptismal covenants and temple covenants). I don't have any favorite talks on the subject that immediately come to mind, but here is a list I've compiled after doing a basic search. Do any of you have any favorites that I should add to the list as I begin my study?

Keeping Covenants Prepares Us, Protects Us, and Empowers Us

• Rosemary Wixom
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/keeping-covenants-protects-us-prepares-us-and-empowers-us?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants: A Message for Those Who Will Serve a Mission

• Elder Holland
• https://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/01/keeping-covenants-a-message-for-those-who-will-serve-a-mission?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants and Honoring the Priesthood

• President Faust
• https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/11/keeping-covenants-and-honoring-the-priesthood.p1?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants

• M. Russell Ballard
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1993/04/keeping-covenants?lang=eng

Keeping Our Covenants

• Richard Maynes (Seventy)
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/keeping-our-covenants?lang=eng

The Covenant Path: God's Plan for Me

• Rosemary Wixom
• https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/rosemary-m-wixom_the-covenant-path/

Making Covenants with God

• President Eyring
• https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_making-covenants-god/

Cleave Unto the Covenants

• Daughters in My Kingdom, Chapter 3
• https://www.lds.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom/manual/cleave-unto-the-covenants-exodus-migration-and-settlement?lang=eng

Must Read!

Elder Ballard talks about how--in the last days--even some of the very elect will be deceived. (I love his analogy of the sequoia tree on BYU campus.) He tells us how we can avoid the deception of false teachers with some essential habits. (Nor, he even specifically mentions "making the Sabbath day a delight"!)

https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/to-the-saints-in-the-utah-south-area?cid=HP_TH_9-17-2015_dCN_fCNWS_xLIDyL2-1_&lang=eng