Saturday, March 1, 2014

Excellence, Perfection pursuit,

Posted by 2DI4 at 7:05 PM

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I love working at the temple so much. Helping the dead make covenants through the living is awesome. Whenever I participate in any ordinance it strengthens my resolve and fills me with hope for the many possibilities I enjoy. Today I've been thinking a lot about how it is our responsibility to be the best we are capable of becoming in all areas of our lives.

I think there is something to be said about honing ALL the areas of our lives to make us the absolute best examples of joy through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Strengthening not just our weaknesses but also making our strengths even better should be something we do all the time. I feel like I want to make a life motto and mission that improves every aspect of my life all the time.

I want to maximize ALL my possibilities asap.

Helaman 8
25 But behold, ye have rejected the truth, and rebelled against your holy God; and even at this time, instead of laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where nothing doth corrupt, and where nothing can come which is unclean, ye are heaping up for yourselves wrath against the day of judgment.

 I read this at the temple this morning. I went there an entire hour too early so I just used that time to study the Book of Mormon and rehearse initiatories in my head. She scheduled me there twice which was very nice because although I have it down I still have to consider what comes next when I perform annointings. Just learning these ordinances as well as I am able to do is an amazing blessing to me.  We should all get to review these all the time. I need to catch a session next week. It'll be the last week before they start rotating the new films. I need to experience it myself. I've heard many opinions from all my temple coworkers. 

 Decisions For Eternity - Russell M. Nelson
 My dear brothers and sisters, each day is a day of decision. President Thomas S. Monson has taught us that “decisions determine destiny.”1 The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression.2 Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

With your body being such a vital part of God’s eternal plan, it is little wonder that the Apostle Paul described it as a “temple of God.”14 Each time you look in the mirror, see your body as your temple. That truth—refreshed gratefully each day—can positively influence your decisions about how you will care for your body and how you will use it. And those decisions will determine your destiny. How could this be? Because your body is the temple for your spirit. And how you use your body affects your spirit. Some of the decisions that will determine your eternal destiny include:
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    How will you choose to care for and use your body?
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    What spiritual attributes will you choose to develop?

Your Heavenly Father has known you for a very long time. You, as His son or daughter, were chosen by Him to come to earth at this precise time, to be a leader in His great work on earth.19 You were chosen not for your bodily characteristics but for your spiritual attributes, such as bravery, courage, integrity of heart, a thirst for truth, a hunger for wisdom, and a desire to serve others.
You developed some of these attributes premortally. Others you can develop here on earth20 as you persistently seek them.21
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery—the strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations. Fasting helps your spirit to develop dominance over your physical appetites. Fasting also increases your access to heaven’s help, as it intensifies your prayers. Why the need for self-mastery? God implanted strong appetites within us for nourishment and love, vital for the human family to be perpetuated.22 When we master our appetites within the bounds of God’s laws, we can enjoy longer life, greater love, and consummate joy.23
Consummate joy. I love that!!!
A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!29
We are “free to choose liberty and eternal life … or to choose captivity and death.”30 When we choose the loftier path toward liberty and eternal life, that path includes marriage.31 Latter-day Saints proclaim that “marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.” We also know that “gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.
Marriage between a man and a woman is fundamental to the Lord’s doctrine and crucial to God’s eternal plan. Marriage between a man and a woman is God’s pattern for a fulness of life on earth and in heaven. God’s marriage pattern cannot be abused, misunderstood, or misconstrued.33Not if you want true joy. God’s marriage pattern protects the sacred power of procreation and the joy of true marital intimacy.34 We know that Adam and Eve were married by God before they ever experienced the joy of uniting as husband and wife.35
My favorite characteristic of my friend is his inexperience physically. Even if he did have make-out sessions with his last girlfriend or current girlfriend, historically he is still very ahead of most guys. I don't think he values that. I wish somehow he could figure how rare AND amazing that is. I hope he finds someone who values that because that is such a huge waste if he doesn't. I can find that in 
awkward UGLY men but no one else. He is awkward but NOT UGLY, if anything he's too pretty.

My dear brothers and sisters, each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. One day each of us will stand before the Lord in judgment.41 We will each have a personal interview with Jesus Christ.42 We will account for decisions that we made about our bodies, our spiritual attributes, and how we honored God’s pattern for marriage and family. 

 

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