Urban Poly Princess

Skating seems to make me exhausted. I sleep hard and then I actually feel better in the morning for Zumba. My DVD was NOT being detected AND I couldn't take the DVD out so I had to look up online how to eject it this morning-I had to restart the laptop while holding down on the mouse keypad. It worked and then I inserted the disk. It recognized and played fine that way. I love my Zumba DVD. Tonight is ward temple night which means I'll just skate in my house later AND that there will be no Fun Park today.

I REALLY hope skating in my miniscule kitchen works. I thought I'd just clean the kitchen while wearing my skates. I love feeling like I'm working to improve all areas of my life. At lunchtime I'm going to do some weight-training no matter what!!!
If I just do arms I won't have to change out of this dress I'm wearing to just dash to the temple when I need to do that.

Mosiah 22

14 And it came to pass that Mosiah received them with joy; and he also received their records, and also the records which had been found by the people of Limhi.


Sometimes it's a real stretch to find something in chapter to learn from other than the Book of Mormon storyline. Mosiah is happy to have the people of Limhi join him and his people in Zarahemla. It says he receives them with joy. Sometimes I may not be as kind or as welcoming as I should be. I don't trust people very much and that is a weakness. Sometimes I just don't care enough about someone to get to know them better. If I'm interested in getting to know someone more I will take steps to do that. If I'm not I won't do anything. While I don't think my Father in Heaven expects me to have to get to know EVERYONE, he does want me to be kind to everyone. I can do that while maintaining my privacy. I purposely keep people at a distance I don't trust. If I think someone has ulterior motives in trying to get to know me better, it won't happen unless I don't care about the motives.

This verse also emphasizes how important the scriptures are. it mentions different records Mosiah is happy to receive.

Where is the Pavillion? - Henry B. Eyring

That incident illustrates another way we can create a barrier to knowing God’s will or feeling His love for us: we can’t insist on our timetable when the Lord has His own. I thought I had spent enough time in my service in Rexburg and was in a hurry to move on. Sometimes our insistence on acting according to our own timetable can obscure His will for us.


Submitting fully to heaven’s will, as this young mother did, is essential to removing the spiritual pavilions we sometimes put over our heads. But it does not guarantee immediate answers to our prayers.


Although His time is not always our time, we can be sure that the Lord keeps His promises. For any of you who now feel that He is hard to reach, I testify that the day will come that we all will see Him face to face. Just as there is nothing now to obscure His view of us, there will be nothing to obscure our view of Him. We will all stand before Him, in person. Like my granddaughter, we want to see Jesus Christ now, but our certain reunion with Him at the judgment bar will be more pleasing if we first do the things that make Him as familiar to us as we are to Him. As we serve Him, we become like Him, and we feel closer to Him as we approach that day when nothing will hide our view.


The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior’s only motivation was to help people. Many of you, as I have, have felt fear in approaching someone you have offended or who has hurt you. And yet I have seen the Lord melt hearts time after time, including my own. And so I challenge you to go for the Lord to someone, despite any fear you may have, to extend love and forgiveness. I promise you that as you do, you will feel the love of the Savior for that person and His love for you, and it will not seem to come from a great distance. For you, that challenge may be in a family, it may be in a community, or it may be across a nation.


But if you go for the Lord to bless others, He will see and reward it. If you do this often enough and long enough, you will feel a change in your very nature through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Not only will you feel closer to Him, but you will also feel more and more that you are becoming like Him. Then, when you do see Him, as we all will, it will be for you as it was for Moroni when he said: “And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.”

We construct a devisive pavillion NOT God. I need to extend love and forgiveness more. I know I can be kinder to people who I don't trust. I don't have to be their best friend BUT I don't need to pretend they don't exist either. Guys are tricky however. They ALWAYS get the wrong idea. I just need to constantly cultivate and listen to the direction of the spirit. We also shouldn't cast our pearls before swine. Some people and circumstances make ignorance the kindest action.