I have been thinking a lot about covenants lattly, because in the Reliefsociety broadcast the women said that we make many covenents. Not all of them are limited to the covevents in the temple. This has driven me to discover what covenents I have made. I would like... I am striving to prepair myself for the temple and to make the covenents there and marriage covenents. One of the best ways that I can do this is to honor the covenents that I have already made. Truthfully, I do not know what all of those covenents are.
The first one that I recognized was the covenants that I made at baptizum. I then listed off the covenants that the sister mentioned in her talk: morn with those that morn, comfort those who stand in need of comfort. While I was sitting in sacrament the talks were about the temple and the spirit of Elisha. One way that I can fullfill covenents taht I have already made is to visit the temple often and do baptizums for the dead. I can also do family indexing. Although, I have received many answers as to what a covenent is and how I can keep my covenents I feel like this idea of making and keeping covenents will be a life long lesson. The sections that I read tonight for Doctrine and Covenants helped me to realize how vital and divers the covenents I am and will make in life are.
One scripture that is continually playing in my mind now is that the Lord promises: when yea do what I say I am bound, but when yea do not what I say yea have no promise. This is the first time that i have read that scripture and realized that God is talking about covenents. He is talking about making a promise with divinity- the actual definition of a covenent. Then he clarifies there are unseperable promises associatied with keeping covenents. He also warns me that if I do not keep my covenets then he is not bound- those are the terms.
Another passage that touched my soul was about the law of conceration. There were several quotes from the Doctrine and Covenants manual that were about covenets and coveneting to love God, and his children. I have been thinking about these quotes, and I even highlighted several of them. It has made me wonder more about my own personal covenents. It has made me want to clarify with God what I promise to do. It was also a wake up call, becuase of how much truth and love he has given to me I am covenented to continue in faith. The warning that if I turn from the knowledge I know, and the covenents I have already made I am putting my eternal salvation in jepordy was powerfully humbling.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
REG #7
This was about the prophet Joseph Smith, and the sacrifices that he made for the Church. I have been thinking a lot about honesty. That has been an overwhelming theme in my life this week. The devotional was on honesty, Marlena brought home an article about being honest in relationships, and then we watched My Best Friend's Wedding throughout the entire week I have been learning about honesty. I have been thinking about honesty. I have been hearing about honesty. It causes me to wonder about honesty in relationships. This has been an overpowering thought for a few days.
I tried to connect this thought back to the prophet Joseph Smith. He went through trials and tribulations, the mobs came, the crowds came, people betrayed him, and he remained faithful. This is what has caught my attention- remaining faithful. He was honest with himself. This is a vital relationship for me to be honest with. I need to be honest with myself. I was wondering if all of these promtings about honesty were to prepair me for some grand relationship; that was just around the corner. Now as I am thinking I believe that these promptings have been for me to realize that if I want to have an honest relationship with another soul for all eternity and share eternity through temple blessings I need to learn to be honest with myself.
What are somethings that I can start doing right now to change my thinking that will help me to be more honest with myself: honest thoughts about my physical appearance? honest with what I am thinking, honest with my ideas and inspiration, honest with homework, honestly work hard... this is a pointless list... it seems so ambigous and like there is no actual single thing that I can do?
I will use Joseph Smith as my example. What did he do in his life to be honest with himself. Well I can do all of the "basics" and then how can I change my thinking to become more honest with myself. I think... this may sound odd, but I believe that I should think more about others, and less about myself. For some reason I think that this will help me to become more honest because when I think more about others I can see clearer. I can see more truth and then apply that truth to my life instead of trying to dig in a cement pit in my own soul that will not lead me to know more truth about myself. I think that is a good solution. I should make other people more of my reality; learn about other's and make beautiful truths that can honestly grow inside of myself.
I tried to connect this thought back to the prophet Joseph Smith. He went through trials and tribulations, the mobs came, the crowds came, people betrayed him, and he remained faithful. This is what has caught my attention- remaining faithful. He was honest with himself. This is a vital relationship for me to be honest with. I need to be honest with myself. I was wondering if all of these promtings about honesty were to prepair me for some grand relationship; that was just around the corner. Now as I am thinking I believe that these promptings have been for me to realize that if I want to have an honest relationship with another soul for all eternity and share eternity through temple blessings I need to learn to be honest with myself.
What are somethings that I can start doing right now to change my thinking that will help me to be more honest with myself: honest thoughts about my physical appearance? honest with what I am thinking, honest with my ideas and inspiration, honest with homework, honestly work hard... this is a pointless list... it seems so ambigous and like there is no actual single thing that I can do?
I will use Joseph Smith as my example. What did he do in his life to be honest with himself. Well I can do all of the "basics" and then how can I change my thinking to become more honest with myself. I think... this may sound odd, but I believe that I should think more about others, and less about myself. For some reason I think that this will help me to become more honest because when I think more about others I can see clearer. I can see more truth and then apply that truth to my life instead of trying to dig in a cement pit in my own soul that will not lead me to know more truth about myself. I think that is a good solution. I should make other people more of my reality; learn about other's and make beautiful truths that can honestly grow inside of myself.
Friday, September 16, 2011
REG D&C 76:50-70;
This was such a surprise to me, I want to sing and dance, and I want to let the world know how amazing this revelation is! I thought that the way to heaven was a check off list... something that I had to fill out. Of course there are covenants, but I am talking a check off list! one that if it were written down would roll out the door and across the hall and down the stairs.
It would look something like a report card. Joy Marie Prior- class of 1990 to death date: passed church 101, recieved a poor score in her church puntuality, kept a fairly positive attitude in family relations 250, but did not pass time management 100 or organization 365 or order and priorities 250, and had to retake hummility in daily living 110 because without that requirment she could not take basic gosple knowledge 216. There would be a tally of how many times I went to church, and not only how often I prayed but a record of how long and what I prayed for. It was a horrifying image, becuase under this system I don't know how I would make it to heaven. It also felt like so much pressure.
I loved reading this section though because my eyes were opened the true nature of God. I am sure that God knows all of the "statistical" numbers of my spirituality- the average number of times I fell asleep in church. He knows all things from the begining to the end, and he can number the sands of the sea. I am sure that he has numbered my life. This was the only perspect that I had taken of my Heavenly Father when it came to judgment. After reading this section I saw a different perspective of my Lord at judgment day.
This perspective was a God filled with mercy. He is filled with so much mercy that it pours out from heaven like raindrops and covers me, so that I can grow. He is filled with so much mercy that Christ can take me into his arms and cry with me until we have bandaged all of my sins and put rainbows were there once was sorrow. The kind of mercy that makes me soul take flight not because I am weightless and perfect but because God is, God is perfect and He will take me with him.that is what I learned from this reading.
It would look something like a report card. Joy Marie Prior- class of 1990 to death date: passed church 101, recieved a poor score in her church puntuality, kept a fairly positive attitude in family relations 250, but did not pass time management 100 or organization 365 or order and priorities 250, and had to retake hummility in daily living 110 because without that requirment she could not take basic gosple knowledge 216. There would be a tally of how many times I went to church, and not only how often I prayed but a record of how long and what I prayed for. It was a horrifying image, becuase under this system I don't know how I would make it to heaven. It also felt like so much pressure.
I loved reading this section though because my eyes were opened the true nature of God. I am sure that God knows all of the "statistical" numbers of my spirituality- the average number of times I fell asleep in church. He knows all things from the begining to the end, and he can number the sands of the sea. I am sure that he has numbered my life. This was the only perspect that I had taken of my Heavenly Father when it came to judgment. After reading this section I saw a different perspective of my Lord at judgment day.
This perspective was a God filled with mercy. He is filled with so much mercy that it pours out from heaven like raindrops and covers me, so that I can grow. He is filled with so much mercy that Christ can take me into his arms and cry with me until we have bandaged all of my sins and put rainbows were there once was sorrow. The kind of mercy that makes me soul take flight not because I am weightless and perfect but because God is, God is perfect and He will take me with him.that is what I learned from this reading.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
ENG writting #2
In my classroom the students will be younger than third grade; we are talking three to eight year olds. I thought that the book had some really great suggestions on how to handle a writing workshop; a lot of the solutions were simple things I can do as a teacher to change the environment. In my mind the best way to have a healthy writing workshop in classrooms with young children is preparation and active involvement. I plan to organize the writing workshop in a specific way so that I can easily asses my students. Many of the ideas that I used to create my lesson plan came from the classroom readings.
The outline for the timing of my writing workshop would be after recess. While the students are coming in from recess I would play wiggle songs- children songs that require the students to move and dance. Once all of the students have really wiggled I would have them sit on the carpet, and have a Why We Wonder? time. After that there would have a short lesson on a grammatical concept, new vocabulary word, or writing concept. Then the students would have time to draw and practice writing. In my mind this would last as long as possible (about 20 to 30 minutes). I would take sections of writing on my own and reviewing their work. Then I start reading a story, and ask the students to come back to the rug with what they had worked on that day by the time the story was finished. Once all of the students have come back to the rug we will have sharing time. I would have two students perform their work- these students would have signed up earlier to perform a finished piece. Then until time was over I would have other students volunteer to share their unfinished work with the class.
This specific lesson plan would relate to how I plan to asses my students. I would formal grade my students on their performance- how they present themselves, their voice, and then they would turn this piece in to be graded by the 6 plus traits of writing. The students would also get points for performing, and they would also get points for sharing- although they would only have to share their work a set amount of times a year. At the beginning of class during the Why We Wonder? would also be graded on a self-grading format for preparation. The work that they do in class would also be graded eventually. By the end of the year they will have to turn in several of their rough drafts that model each of the grammatical concepts we discussed throughout the year. While I am reading the story I would ask the students to participate in reading the story by touching their nose when they hear a golden line- from our reading.
The Why We Wonder? time would be vital to the lesson. This time would be when a student shares something that they learned. I want this to come before the writing workshop because I want the students to simply explore and get ideas before writing. Each student would sign up for a time when they would bring in a show and tell but it would be about science, art, or math. They could bring in an item, photograph, or something and explain it to the class. For example they could bring in a glow in the dark sticker and tell us why the sticker glows in the dark- then tell us what the sticker reminds them of such as a memory or an emotion. This is an important part of the writing workshop, because I want my students to start thinking and learning about the world around them before we start writing. This is how I plan to encourage them to have important things to write about, and to help direct my student’s attention span.
I thought that the Writing Workshop had some really good ideas, and identified a lot of potential problems. One that I thought was interesting was to watch for student’s language. Another one that I found helpful was to let children draw, add words to their picture, let them expand the picture again, and then I add more words to their new drawing. I think that this would be good to help them learn that words symbolize things just as a drawing does. Something that I was not expecting to read about was to have oral readings and talk about performance to help them learn how to become expressive in their writing.
The outline for the timing of my writing workshop would be after recess. While the students are coming in from recess I would play wiggle songs- children songs that require the students to move and dance. Once all of the students have really wiggled I would have them sit on the carpet, and have a Why We Wonder? time. After that there would have a short lesson on a grammatical concept, new vocabulary word, or writing concept. Then the students would have time to draw and practice writing. In my mind this would last as long as possible (about 20 to 30 minutes). I would take sections of writing on my own and reviewing their work. Then I start reading a story, and ask the students to come back to the rug with what they had worked on that day by the time the story was finished. Once all of the students have come back to the rug we will have sharing time. I would have two students perform their work- these students would have signed up earlier to perform a finished piece. Then until time was over I would have other students volunteer to share their unfinished work with the class.
This specific lesson plan would relate to how I plan to asses my students. I would formal grade my students on their performance- how they present themselves, their voice, and then they would turn this piece in to be graded by the 6 plus traits of writing. The students would also get points for performing, and they would also get points for sharing- although they would only have to share their work a set amount of times a year. At the beginning of class during the Why We Wonder? would also be graded on a self-grading format for preparation. The work that they do in class would also be graded eventually. By the end of the year they will have to turn in several of their rough drafts that model each of the grammatical concepts we discussed throughout the year. While I am reading the story I would ask the students to participate in reading the story by touching their nose when they hear a golden line- from our reading.
The Why We Wonder? time would be vital to the lesson. This time would be when a student shares something that they learned. I want this to come before the writing workshop because I want the students to simply explore and get ideas before writing. Each student would sign up for a time when they would bring in a show and tell but it would be about science, art, or math. They could bring in an item, photograph, or something and explain it to the class. For example they could bring in a glow in the dark sticker and tell us why the sticker glows in the dark- then tell us what the sticker reminds them of such as a memory or an emotion. This is an important part of the writing workshop, because I want my students to start thinking and learning about the world around them before we start writing. This is how I plan to encourage them to have important things to write about, and to help direct my student’s attention span.
I thought that the Writing Workshop had some really good ideas, and identified a lot of potential problems. One that I thought was interesting was to watch for student’s language. Another one that I found helpful was to let children draw, add words to their picture, let them expand the picture again, and then I add more words to their new drawing. I think that this would be good to help them learn that words symbolize things just as a drawing does. Something that I was not expecting to read about was to have oral readings and talk about performance to help them learn how to become expressive in their writing.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The glory of the after life. It seems to complicated to me, and I don’t like to think about it. I think this is because I don’t like to image sending people any place but the top. Most of the time I can not imagine someone going to any were but heave, and other times I image that we are all just going to go to Hell. The idea that there are glories, and that it is plural is strange to me; at least a little strange to me.
I am going to the temple tomorrow morning to do baptism work. The work that I will be doing will be for the dead. While I am there I want to pray a little more about the degrees of glory and what they mean to me right now. I should ask myself some questions before I go there:
Is there any way to tell who will be in the degrees?
What is so important about having the degrees?
Were there degrees in the premarital life?
Are there degrees within all of the degrees?
One thing, before I go to bed, I am thinking about is how the degrees are sealed. Is the after life sealed like this earth with souls still wondering, and people able to communicate with the after life. Is it sealed by putting us all on separate earth’s or are these earths divided by a space-time difference. How does the fourth dimension work into the division of all of the degrees?
All of this has me confused and I am slightly tired. There were lots of things that I did not understand when I read today.
I read really fast.
I wanted to get this journal done.
It is later.
I have to wake up in the morning.
I should sleep more….
I am thinking about that last statement; that I should sleep more. I am thinking about how important my physical body is to me right now, and how that is part of how I react and respond to events. That when I am sleepy my reaction is different than when I am not. This treatment of my physical body influence my eternal destiny.
My body is not created to go to bed late and wake up early. It is not designed to go to sleep late and wake up late. It is created to go to bed early and wake up early. It is designed to have energy in it, and to eat healthy food. My body was created with these functions so that I can fulfill my purpose. When I do not take care of my body I am not fulfilling my purpose.
My purpose is to become like God- God would take care of His body because he respects his bodies creation. How I can respect my own creation and other people's creations, and other things: trees, wind, power, all things have a purpose to their creation and should be respectful of that purpose.
Simply because someone has a purpose for their creation it does not mean that they will fullfil the purpose of their creation- that is how the degrees come in I think... that you only allow the grace of the Savior to fill up your purpose cup partly and not fully- but then it has something to do with actions. How we allow the Savor to help us is to follow His commandments? is that fullfilling my spiritual purpose- well there is a spiritual death and a physical death. I should fullfill both purposes while in this life. They both seem vitally conected. I need to pay attention to my phsyical purpose, and go to bed.
I am going to the temple tomorrow morning to do baptism work. The work that I will be doing will be for the dead. While I am there I want to pray a little more about the degrees of glory and what they mean to me right now. I should ask myself some questions before I go there:
Is there any way to tell who will be in the degrees?
What is so important about having the degrees?
Were there degrees in the premarital life?
Are there degrees within all of the degrees?
One thing, before I go to bed, I am thinking about is how the degrees are sealed. Is the after life sealed like this earth with souls still wondering, and people able to communicate with the after life. Is it sealed by putting us all on separate earth’s or are these earths divided by a space-time difference. How does the fourth dimension work into the division of all of the degrees?
All of this has me confused and I am slightly tired. There were lots of things that I did not understand when I read today.
I read really fast.
I wanted to get this journal done.
It is later.
I have to wake up in the morning.
I should sleep more….
I am thinking about that last statement; that I should sleep more. I am thinking about how important my physical body is to me right now, and how that is part of how I react and respond to events. That when I am sleepy my reaction is different than when I am not. This treatment of my physical body influence my eternal destiny.
My body is not created to go to bed late and wake up early. It is not designed to go to sleep late and wake up late. It is created to go to bed early and wake up early. It is designed to have energy in it, and to eat healthy food. My body was created with these functions so that I can fulfill my purpose. When I do not take care of my body I am not fulfilling my purpose.
My purpose is to become like God- God would take care of His body because he respects his bodies creation. How I can respect my own creation and other people's creations, and other things: trees, wind, power, all things have a purpose to their creation and should be respectful of that purpose.
Simply because someone has a purpose for their creation it does not mean that they will fullfil the purpose of their creation- that is how the degrees come in I think... that you only allow the grace of the Savior to fill up your purpose cup partly and not fully- but then it has something to do with actions. How we allow the Savor to help us is to follow His commandments? is that fullfilling my spiritual purpose- well there is a spiritual death and a physical death. I should fullfill both purposes while in this life. They both seem vitally conected. I need to pay attention to my phsyical purpose, and go to bed.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Apartment Plan for Victoria Place #66
Victoria Place Apartment #66
We will be socially AMAZING; we will invite someone from our ward to our apartment at least once a week. That means breakfasts, dance parties, coco socials, and game nights.
We are going to flirt it up. That is right girls. We like boys and… lets face it we like talking about boys too. Our goal is to go on four dates in a semester. They can be set ups, blind dates, or a “special interest”.
We will be positive. Honestly, we got to learn to be hopeful. To help us do this we will begin to write at least one positive thing that happened to us that day on our “Daily Menu” white board.
We really do want to just get to know everyone in the ward and even though we know that it is impossible to be great friends with everyone we want to get to know people. To help us accomplish this we will learn everyone’s name in our ward by the end of the year.
We want the sprit to dwell in our home. One way we will do this is to have apartment prayer in the evenings, and on Sunday mornings we will have apartment scripture study. There will be no TV on Sunday, and if you want to watch a movie on Sunday it should be G. Although, we are ok with PG-13 movies on the other days of the week we will not watch R rated movies in our apartment.
We believe that serving others is important to our progression. Once a semester we will volunteer together.
Love, we want sisterly love. We should show patience towards each other; it is ok to be moody (we are human, and we should remember that everyone in our apartment is as well)
We think that safety is important. We should check up on each other. If you are not home before curfew, please, let us know so that we do not worry about you- your physical safety, spiritual safety, and mental safety depends on it.
Quote wall… enough said.
Joy really likes fake tattoos (for some reason) and she will be allowed to have one.
Alison will be allowed to have cuddle time, in bed, with her books before she goes to bed.
Bethany is allowed to be hyper (not at the annoyance of others) but in her room. She can cuddle up with her hyperness.
Marlena is allowed to eat as much as she wants, what ever she wants, any time, any place, on the toilet, in her bed. She can do it if she wants to.
We will be socially AMAZING; we will invite someone from our ward to our apartment at least once a week. That means breakfasts, dance parties, coco socials, and game nights.
We are going to flirt it up. That is right girls. We like boys and… lets face it we like talking about boys too. Our goal is to go on four dates in a semester. They can be set ups, blind dates, or a “special interest”.
We will be positive. Honestly, we got to learn to be hopeful. To help us do this we will begin to write at least one positive thing that happened to us that day on our “Daily Menu” white board.
We really do want to just get to know everyone in the ward and even though we know that it is impossible to be great friends with everyone we want to get to know people. To help us accomplish this we will learn everyone’s name in our ward by the end of the year.
We want the sprit to dwell in our home. One way we will do this is to have apartment prayer in the evenings, and on Sunday mornings we will have apartment scripture study. There will be no TV on Sunday, and if you want to watch a movie on Sunday it should be G. Although, we are ok with PG-13 movies on the other days of the week we will not watch R rated movies in our apartment.
We believe that serving others is important to our progression. Once a semester we will volunteer together.
Love, we want sisterly love. We should show patience towards each other; it is ok to be moody (we are human, and we should remember that everyone in our apartment is as well)
We think that safety is important. We should check up on each other. If you are not home before curfew, please, let us know so that we do not worry about you- your physical safety, spiritual safety, and mental safety depends on it.
Quote wall… enough said.
Joy really likes fake tattoos (for some reason) and she will be allowed to have one.
Alison will be allowed to have cuddle time, in bed, with her books before she goes to bed.
Bethany is allowed to be hyper (not at the annoyance of others) but in her room. She can cuddle up with her hyperness.
Marlena is allowed to eat as much as she wants, what ever she wants, any time, any place, on the toilet, in her bed. She can do it if she wants to.
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