Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Tuesday in Eng 098

Posted by 2DI4 at 9:58 AM

Today is going to be a looong day since I'm going to teach night students to write a paper. Night time classes are looong BUT I need the time for my classes to produce a paper in a week. My night students only have 2 days of instruction to get there.

I feel a little better about the sister missionaries. I don't know what they do each day and I need to quit judging what they are doing with people. It's just annoying to me that this sweet less active family has been meeting with the missionaries weekly for some time now. It is sooo past time for the sisters to involve other people in this. While I didn't mind taking them there, they need to have someone in that ward take them to that discussion.

2 Nephi 25
4 Wherefore, hearken, O my people, which are of the house of Israel, and give ear unto my words; for because the words of Isaiah are not plain unto you, nevertheless they are plain unto all those that are filled with the aspirit of bprophecy. But I give unto you a cprophecy, according to the spirit which is in me; wherefore I shall prophesy according to the dplainness which hath been with me from the time that I came out from Jerusalem with my father; for behold, my soul delighteth in eplainness unto my people, that they may learn.

5 Yea, and my soul delighteth in the words of aIsaiah, for I came out from Jerusalem, and mine eyes hath beheld the things of the bJews, and I know that the Jews do cunderstand the things of the prophets, and there is none other people that understand the things which were spoken unto the Jews like unto them, save it be that they are taught after the manner of the things of the Jews.
So we need to have the spirit of prophecy before the words of Isaiah will seem plain to us. They are beautiful to me but I certainly don't think plain when I read Isaiah. I think amazing writing filled with details that create clear images I feel I can touch. Nephi likes to write about his soul delighting in plainness or the words of Isaiah. I think the last time my soul "delighteth" was when I spent time with my nieces and nephews in Provo. I love giving "the babies" or Maria who is 4 and her baby brother Sammy who is 3 lots of hugs and kisses. There isn't much better. Isa wanted to know when I was leaving and if I could go and get grandma. I had fun with my big nieces too. Noelani needs to get her stuff filled out for school. She needs to quit just marking time. Her friends are NOT the type of people she should have been around. They did NOT help her be a better person.
Lord I Believe - Jeffrey R. Holland
“Straightway,” the scripture says—not slowly nor skeptically nor cynically but “straightway”—the father cries out in his unvarnished parental pain, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.” In response to new and still partial faith, Jesus heals the boy, almost literally raising him from the dead, as Mark describes the incident.5 
I would say to all who wish for more faith, remember this man! In moments of fear or doubt or troubling times, hold the ground you have already won, even if that ground is limited.
The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.
Hmmm... I do know a lot about what I should do and I don't exactly act like I have that knowledge all the time. I really am blessed to be here in Logan. I am blessed to have gone through what I did with Colton. Mauricio is someone I'd be getting to know better right now because he is attractive to me and intelligent BUT he isn't what I need or want for eternity. I like the whole European thing AND the library thing AND definitely the law school thing. I'd do personal missionary work with him which is very stupid. I know better however so I'm NOT going to do that!!! I have an idea of what to do instead ALTHOUGH the idea that I HAVE to be the one to initiate that if at all is NOT attractive to me BUT it is the safer AND wiser option.

 

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