It seems to take us all morning to do what we did by 9:00
a.m. on the mission. Of course we are
studying the scriptures for about an hour instead of a half hour and we talk
more at breakfast and spend more time showering and dressing than we did there
but it is ridiculous that it takes us until 12:00 noon to get that all
done. Of course today we didn’t get up
until 8:30 a.m.
I worked on the blog in the afternoon. I am so far behind it is ridiculous. I was proud of the way I was able to stick to
it and I found some material I recorded on my phone that will help.
Larry went to find a battery for his glucose meter but came
back unsuccessful then he watched Fox news about the Benghazi hearings for
Hilary Clinton today. He said that he thought
that she came through them clean.
We tended Taylor this afternoon for an hour while Kirsten
went for a job interview. We went to
cook the last of her cookie dough but when the oven heated up it was smoking so
bad I knew I could not use it. I think
that we spilled something the other day and didn’t clean it out. So I put the cookies in the toaster oven and
I started my oven cleaning. It really
was a bad smell and it still is lingering.
I will have to light a candle or spray some Febreze tomorrow.
We went to the temple tonight for ward temple night. We were the first ones there which has to be
some kind of miracle. It was the old
movie because we had someone who speaks Mongolian in the session and the new
films to not have a track in Mongolian but I liked it more than I thought. I really struggled with not feeling good
though and being tired. I kept praying
that I would be able to understand it but I felt a certain amount of confusion.
Tonight in scriptures we read 1 Nephi 15. I was a little frustrated last night when we
read Chapter 14 because Nephi just has to ask and he is shown a vision. I asked Heavenly Father what I had to do to
receive help like that. Tonight we read
this quote from the commentary in the institute manual:
“Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles discussed how a hard heart limits our spirituality:
“Nephi attempted to teach his brothers that they could know
the meaning of their father’s prophetic utterances, ‘which were hard to be
understood, save a man should inquire of the Lord’ (1 Ne. 15:3).
Nephi told them if they did not harden their hearts and would keep the
commandments and inquire of the Lord in faith, ‘surely these things shall be
made known unto you’ (1 Ne.
15:11).
“If we harden our hearts, reject continuing revelation, and
limit our learning to what we can obtain by study and reason on the precise
language of the present canon of scriptures, our understanding will be limited
to what Alma called ‘the lesser portion of the word’ (Alma 12:11).
If we seek and accept revelation and inspiration to enlarge our understanding
of the inspiration to enlarge our understanding of the scriptures, we will
realize a fulfillment of Nephi’s inspired promise that those who diligently
seek will have ‘the mysteries of God … unfolded unto them, by the power of the
Holy Ghost’”
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