My Treasure

My experiences and struggles can turn into seminary lessons.

I told the students today about my trial on Saturday. How frustrated I was, burdened, upset. I drove down to Slaughter Beach and started putting stones in my pockets.

98 stones.

And how I received an answer to my prayer. How the Holy Ghost reminded me that prayer helps strengthen me. How I am supposed to cast my burdens on the Lord, and not let them weigh down my pockets.

I didn't tell them this, but how beautiful the rocks look when wet. Tears or salt water from the ocean.

I did tell them they are my treasure. How I thought of them as I picked up the rocks, thinking of their uniqueness, beauty, their testimonies, questions, enthusiasm.

And how I didn't want to be a stumbling block to them. I didn't want to fail and fall apart and lose faith because I know they are watching me.

And I know people are watching them. Challenged them to be a stepping stone for others, a way into the Church. A pathway to Christ, through their actions and example and testimony.




Fingernail polish makes the rocks permanently shiny. Permanet marker sealed with a second layer of polish preserves the message: Stepping Stone and Stumbling Block, sometimes shortened to "step" and "stumble" on the other side of the rock.

Dress Down

Me in my modest pink pajammas, seconds before the class walked in.

I used Sister Mueller's idea about dressing down for teaching seminary to point out the ways we communicate with our dress. How we appear matters. It communicates our attitude about the event we are attending. Shows our respect.

We talked about the Amlicites marking themselves. Discussed ways we mark ourselves to look like the world.

Party MONDAY January 4th

And there will be food!

Moses 6:63
"And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath; all things bear record of me."

Alma 30:44
"...the scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."

Since we missed having our Christmas celebration due to snow days, tomorrow we will exchange our secret Santa gifts and have a devotional by you. Everyone will pick an object from the basket and tell how it relates to the life of Christ and could be used to testify and teach about our Savior.

Happy 11th day of Christmas tomorrow! Some families celebrate 12th Night and remember the gifts the wise men brought.

Gold
Frankincense
Myrrh

What gifts can we give Him now?