Congrats Olympic Medalists!
Gold: China, United States, Japan, Italy, France, South Korea, Russia, North Korea, Australia, Romania, Brazil, Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Georgia, Lithuania, South Africa
Silver: China, United States, Japan, Italy, France, South Korea, Australia, Romania, Brazil, Hungary, Great Britain, Netherlands, Colombia, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Thailand
Bronze: China, United States, Japan, Italy, France, South Korea, Russia, North Korea, Australia, Brazil, Hungary, Ukraine, Great Britain, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, India, Indonesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Uzbekistan
May the competition be just as fierce tomorrow! :)
And now for some more inspiration. :) These statements are by no means the only things that the speakers said, but things that I found pertinent in my life. :)
Gordon B. Hinckley - The Sustaining of Church Officers
Marvin J. Ashton - A Pattern in All Things
- We can't control the weather or elements, but we can stay within the pattern for safety.
- How can we even guess how our lives will turn out if we don't choose to follow the right pattern?
- I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived; for Satan is abroad in the land, and he goeth forth deceiving.
- Satan and his advocates will constantly try to deceive and entice us into following their patterns. If we are to achieve daily safety, exaltation, and eternal happiness, we need to live by the light and truth of our Savior's plan.
- God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
- Many times true winners in life are those who have been hurt and disappointed but have risen above these challenges. Very often in life, God gives us difficulties to bring out the best in us. It is true, life does not determine winners. Winners determine life.
- When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks--not that you won or lost--but how you played the game.
- Evidence to the contrary, there are no successful sinners.
- Actions of the moment may be fun, but true happiness depends upon how you feel after the involvement is over.
- Solid, permanent progress can only take place in the days ahead if deception is avoided, no matter how advantageous it may seem to yield or compromise basic principles of conduct.
- Even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you.
- Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed.
- Surely the Lord would not ask us to pray if he did not intend to answer our prayers.
- We can trust the Lord. He is our truest Friend
- And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up."
- What a blessing it is to belong and to be wanted and needed! It becomes even more apparent during life's tender moments.
- Join with the Saints, that you might not be any longer strangers alone in this world, but truly cared for, loved, and appreciated.
- But a testimony is not a work that is merely completed and concluded. Indeed, it is a process in continuous development. Nourishing and strengthening our testimonies is essential to our spiritual survival.
- If the work was true six months ago, it is true today; if Joseph Smith was then a prophet, he is now a prophet.
- A testimony should not be hidden. It must be shared.
- It is wise to gain and improve a testimony of the truth because it not only helps us face our daily challenges, but it also opens our eyes, minds, and hearts to the great and marvelous things created by our Heavenly Father for our improvement and eternal happiness.
- Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.
- And again, he that receiveth the word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of truth or some other way?
- If we do not receive the truth by His spirit, it is not His word.
- Do "all things...in the name of Christ"
- Latter-day Saints can become so preoccupied with our own agendas that we can forget to witness and testify of Christ.
- The witness of the Holy Ghost makes an impression on our soul that is more significant than "a visitation of an angel."
- Our greatest responsibility and anxiety is to defend the divine mission of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, for all about us, even among those who claim to be professors of the Christian faith, are those not willing to stand squarely in defense of the great truth that our Lord an Master, Jesus Christ, was indeed the Son of God."
- We need to be on guard against careless omissions and oversights in our personal testimonies, in our formal instruction, and in our worship and funeral services.
- I feel that there are more outstanding young men and women among our people at present than at any other moment in my lifetime.
- Being parents is "the greatest trust that has been given to human beings."
- In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.
- To have successful homes, values must be taught, and there must be rules, there must be standards, and there must be absolutes.
- Somehow, some way, we must try harder to make our homes stronger so that they will stand as sanctuaries against the unwholesome, pervasive moral dry rot around us.
- But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
- I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home. Children often challenge and tax the strength and wisdom of both parents.
- When parents try to teach their children to avoid danger, it is no answer for parents to say to their children, "We are experienced and wise in the ways of the world, and we can get closer to the edge of the cliff than you."
- Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. Paul reminds us that children should "learn first to shew piety at home."
- "If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up."
- If parents do not discipline their children, then the public will discipline them in a way the parents do not like.
- "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
- "If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds."
- "Those who do too much for their children will soon fin they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in."
- There is a certain irony in the fact that some parents are so anxious for their children to be accepted by and be popular with their peers; yet these same parents fear that their children may be doing the things their peers are doing.
- The little things are the big things sewn into the family tapestry by a thousand threads of love, faith, discipline, sacrifice, patience, and work.
- God bless the struggling, sacrificing, honorable parents of this world.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream
I was getting ready to go somewhere along with my parents, and we were having problems gathering all the fruit and gear together....
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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