Albert Schweitzer, the noted theologian and missionary physician, declared: 'I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.' "
"Three Gates to Open," CES Fireside for Young Adults, Jan. 14, 2001

I love this quote it reminds me of my wonderful parents that have taught my brothers and me how to serve!!! Service starts at home..

Look at my sweet Dad he is the greatest man ever!!!!

You Know Enough

There are "days when we feel inadequate and unprepared, when doubt and confusion enter our spirits, when we have difficulty finding our spiritual footing. Part of our victory as disciples of Christ is what we do when these feelings come.

Nearly 40 years ago as I contemplated the challenge of a mission, I felt very inadequate and unprepared. I remember praying, “Heavenly Father, how can I serve a mission when I know so little?” I believed in the Church, but I felt my spiritual knowledge was very limited. As I prayed, the feeling came: “You don’t know everything, but you know enough!” That reassurance gave me the courage to take the next step into the mission field.

Our spiritual journey is the process of a lifetime. We do not know everything in the beginning or even along the way. Our conversion comes step-by-step, line upon line. . . . We then remain steady and patient as we progress through mortality. At times, the Lord’s answer will be, 'You don’t know everything, but you know enough.'"

Neil A. Anderson, "You Know Enough," October 2008.
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-4,00.html

Be not afraid only believe

"Brothers and sisters, whatever your distress, please don't give up and please don't yield to fear. I have always been touched that as his son was departing for his mission to England, Brother Bryant S. Hinckley gave young Gordon a farewell embrace and then slipped him a handwritten note with just five words taken from the fifth chapter of Mark: 'Be not afraid, only believe' (Mark 5:36)."

"The Spirit"

The Holy Ghost speaks with a voice that you feel more than you hear. It is described as a “still small voice.” And while we speak of “listening” to the whisperings of the Spirit, most often one describes a spiritual prompting by saying, “I had a feeling …”

We do not seek for spectacular experiences. President Spencer W. Kimball spoke of the many who “have no ear for spiritual messages … when they come in common dress. … Expecting the spectacular, one may not be fully alerted to the constant flow of revealed communication.”

For me over the last 10 months and the last 16 months since Murry's death, I have been brought to my knees, my heart and my mind have been opened to the spiritual side of me. More so than before, probably since my mission and the birth of our boys. I've been able to feel the "feelings" and understand what I'm feeling more so than before. Having been blessed with the Holy Ghost, and to feel the love of my Angel Grandma Thackeray. To feel the burning and the prompting of her presents that I might share her message to her sick daughter. Of going to the Temple to feel the spirit of a man waiting for so many years to accept his Temple Ordanices. To feel other small promptings that there were no other explaination for but to be the spirit telling me of what I need to do and what needs to be done.

My "test" or refiners fire is burning my outside to a point of wondering if I will combust soon. But my inside is full of warmth and gratitude for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that I know of his love and kindness for all of his brother's and sisters, and for the love of our Heavenly Father to his children. I am willing to take whatever test is given me from Him, I did not make Him a part of my life like I should of, so if I have to wait longer to learn and be more humble I will. I am just greatful that I can feel His spirit and peace as I/we deal with this trial.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil.

A Day I Will Never Forget

Today I had the privilege of going to the temple with my Dear Brother Denzil, It is a day that I wont soon forget, and one we have both waited for! He is truly one of my hero's, we have a close relationship one that I will cherish forever. He has always had my back and has the gift to help me focus on what really matters in life, he is a wonderful example of endurance through trials. I think that we should all remember to cherish our family members and treasure every moment with them. Just a little over a year ago our brother Murry left this life to be with his Father in Heaven to serve a mission there. Oh how we miss him and how our hearts ache for him. Today as I sat in the temple with Denzil I felt blessed to have felt Murry's spirit with us. What a beautiful day!!! I love my brothers!!!! I am so blessed. I am proud of you Denzil

Adversity!

Adversity is part of our Heavenly Father’s plan for us here upon the earth. We are here to be proven—to see if we will do whatever God commands us to do (see Abraham 3:25). As we struggle to meet trials, we grow and develop qualities that we can attain in no other way. When we seek his help, our Heavenly Father will strengthen us and make us equal to the trials that come to us.

the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.
Henry B. Eyring