Ruth's Adventures: April 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

here and there

In my swimming class I recently learned to do the butterfly stroke. It is a fun, but hard stroke to do. In doing this stroke I get to pretend that I am a dolphin if I want to. I also have tried my hand at cooking artichokes. It is a good little side for a meal.

Words of Wisdom

The effect of our words and acts is tremendous in this world. Every moment of life you are changing to a degree the lives of the whole world. … So, it’s not the surroundings, it isn’t the positions; the thing that will influence [others] in this world, are personalities. No matter what you are people will feel and recognize this. You radiate, you can’t hide it. You may pretend something else, but that will not affect people.
David O. Mckay
Chapter 24: “Let Your Light So Shine”, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay, 225

Good

Would you like a formula to tell how to get personal revelation? It might be written in many ways. My formula is simply this:

1. Search the scriptures.

2. Keep the commandments.

3. Ask in faith.

Any person who will do this will get his heart so in tune with the Infinite that there will come into his being, from the “still small voice,” the eternal realities of religion. And as he progresses and advances and comes nearer to God, there will be a day when he will entertain angels, when he will see visions, and the final end is to view the face of God.

How to Get Personal Revelation
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
June 1980