The Bountiful Gal - Standing For Truth

 How important is your temple recommend to you? My temple recommend expired back in March, when all the shut down of the pandemic was going on.  To most that didn't seem like a big deal, the temple was closed.  Why did I need a temple recommend when the temple and the world was on shut down?   The day my recommend expired I woke up with a major panic attack over it.  I couldn't feel comfortable with my situation.  Zac kept reminding me that everything was fine and that the Lord would take care of me because it wasn't my fault the world was shut down and I couldn't get a new recommend. But it didn't ease my anxiety. I was stressed!  I felt naked and exposed to the world.  For weeks I prayed for the Lord's help to ease my anxiety, but it didn't come till 6 weeks later when I was able to get a new recommend. Why did this experience affect me to the extent that it did? Elder Rasband's October 2020 conference talk Recommended to the Lord explaine...

This week in inkling institute we talk about Enoch in Moses 7.  Emily Belle Freeman discussed how Enoch continued to answer the call to preach even though he lived among a lost people.  The people were lost to the ways of God.  They had much division among themselves.  So much wickedness in the land that they become a blackened people.  I love that she discussed not taking the word blackened literally.  There are 2 places in the scriptures that describes the definition of blackness in the figurative definition. Joel 2:6 - Illuminated or glowing with Jude - Gloom When you put those together the description of blackness would mean illumination of gloom.  This was a people that others didn't want to be around because of their gloomy countenance. But yet through all of that Enoch continued to preach. Moses 7:13 says, ... so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him. This stuck with me!   We...

 These last two weeks have been crazy busy for me.  I feel like I've been running non stop and have had no time to even just sit and recover.  I don't like when I get in this state!  When I'm in this state I feel like I'm a crazy person.  My anxiety rises and I don't process things as well as I would when I'm in my calm state. As I reflected on this during the week and why I was getting worked up over issues that wouldn't normally bother me, I made a connection.  When I'm in my crazy busy state, I don't set aside the time for the Lord that I would normally set aside.  Without that time, I don't receive the promised blessing of the increase of the spirit, and therefore my life is a bit more crazy then normal. A little history about my life.  I am a mother of 5 children, wife of the bishop of our ward, and owner of a business with 37 employees and 700 customers.  Now if that isn't exhausting just reading it, I also deal with multiple chronic il...

HALLELUJAH     Oxford Dictionary = God be praised (uttered in worship or as an expression of rejoicing)  Bible Dictionary = Praise ye the Lord Last week we headed up to Christmas Meadows to get our Christmas tree.  It was the first time we were heading up the mountain to cut our own tree.  We were all excited to start a new family tradition!  We jumped in the truck and turned on our favorite Christmas album - A Pentatonix Christmas Deluxe.  The song Hallelujah came on.  Zac went to change it and I stopped him.  I asked, why in the world would you change the song?!  He said because it's the weirdest song he's ever heard.  I started back in disbelief.  That just didn't make any sense to me.   I'm the opposite of Zac when I listen to that song.  I'm moved beyond belief!   As I listen to that song, I hear a cry of hope and redemption in the story!  It speaks of David, a great King and leader who had fa...