Story of his ward fixing up an apartment for a family coming from Germany to make is appealing.
Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Spiritual Thoughts: Repent, Book of Mormon, God is Aware of Us, Quotes
Weekly Spiritual Thoughts
Neil A. Maxwell: "The same God that placed that star in prices orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the babe has given at least equal attention to the placement of each of us in precise human orbits so that we may if we will, illuminate the landscape of our individual lives so that our light may not only lead others but warm them as well."
Sister Okazaki: "Abide, to stay, to continue, to endure without complaint, to be where you're supposed to be. I hope we can all feel the strength of abiding in our fields, keeping watch over our flocks. Let's be where we're supposed to be so that angels will know where to find us."
Sister Holland: Faith is the conviction that there is a God. Hope is trusting that He will help us and charity is His love working through us.
Hugh Nibley: "Why read The Book of Mormon? Because angels don't come on trivial errands."
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”- Theodore Roosevelt
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”— Sheryl Sandberg
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Love
Love and care for your wife. Become one with her. be her partner. Make it easy for her to want to be yours. No other interest in life should take priority over building an eternal relationship with her.
Russell M. Nelson
Love
Real love for the sinner may compel courageous confrontation--not acquiescence! Real love does not support self-destructing behavior.
Russell M. Nelson
Friday, October 15, 2021
Happiness
“But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to dies, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”
-Robert Baden Powell
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
I remember the story of a Vietnamese family that fled Saigon in 1975 and ended up living in a small mobile home in Provo, Utah. A young man in the refugee family became the home teaching companion to a Brother Johnson who lived nearby with his large family. The boy related the following:
“One day Brother Johnson noticed that our family had no kitchen table. He appeared the next day with an odd-looking but very functional table that fit nicely against the trailer wall across from the kitchen sink and counters. I say odd-looking because two of the table legs matched the tabletop and two did not. Also, several small wooden pegs stuck out along one edge of the worn surface.
“Soon we used this unique table daily for food preparation and for eating some quick meals. We still ate our family meals while we sat on the floor … in true Vietnamese fashion.
“One evening I stood inside Brother Johnson’s front door as I waited for him before a home teaching appointment. There in the nearby kitchen—I was surprised to see it—was a table practically identical to the one they had given to my family. The only difference was that where our table had pegs, the Johnsons’ table had holes! I then realized that, seeing our need, this charitable man had cut his kitchen table in half and had built two new legs for each half.
“It was obvious that the Johnson family could not fit around this small piece of furniture—they probably didn’t fit comfortably around it when it was whole. …
“Throughout my life this kind act has been a powerful reminder of true giving” (Son Quang Le, as told to Beth Ellis Le, “Two-of-a-Kind Table,” Liahona, July 2004, 45; Ensign,July 2004, 63).
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