Birthright Blessings

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Birthright Blessings

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The Female Vocabulary

• Fine
• This is the word women use to end an argument
  when they are right and you need to shut up.
• Five Minutes
• If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour.
  Five minutes is only five minutes if you have
  just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game
  before you go.
• Nothing
• This is the calm before the storm. This means
  "something" and you should be on your toes. 
  Arguments that begin with "nothing" usually end
  in "fine".
• Go Ahead
• This is a dare, not permission, DON'T DO IT!
• Loud Sigh
• Although not actually a word, the loud sigh is
  often misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means
  she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she
  is wasting her time standing here and arguing
  with you over "Nothing".
• That's Okay
• This is one of the most dangerous statements that
  woman can make to a man. "That's Okay" means that
  she wants to think long and hard before deciding
  how and when you will pay for your mistake.
• Thanks

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Genesis 24

• 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his
  house, that ruled over all that he had Put forth
  I pray thee thy hand under my hand, and I will
  make thee swear before the Lord, the God of
  heaven, and the God of the earth,
• that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of
  the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I
  dwell but thou shalt go unto my country, and to
  my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

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Question

• How far will this servant have to go to find a
  covenant wife for Isaac?
• Answer?
• 500 Miles!

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President Benson

• Now, I want to speak frankly to you young men and
  young women of the Church. When you marry, your
  decision not only affects you, but your future
  children and generations after you. Every child
  born to Latter-day Saint parents deserves to be
  born under the covenant of temple blessings.    
  
• "Don't trifle away your happiness by an
  involvement with someone who cannot take you
  worthily to the temple. Make a decision now that
  this is the place where you will marry. To leave
  that decision until a romantic involvement
  develops is to take a risk, the importance of
  which you can't calculate now.    
• "I would urge you further to pray about this
  matter. Obtain the testimony of the truth of
  these things before a romantic involvement can
  take root. Covenant with your Heavenly Father
  that you will do His will. Live a clean, moral
  life, and be worthy of His spirit to bless you.
     
• "No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings
  of an eternal marriage. To most of us, a temple
  is easily accessible, perhaps so conveniently
  that the blessing is taken too casually. As with
  other matters of faithfulness in gospel living,
  being married the Lord's way takes a willingness
  to deny yourself ungodlinessworldlinessand a
  determination to do our Father's will. By this
  act of faith, we show our love to God and our
  regard for a posterity yet unborn. As our family
  is our greatest source of joy in this life, so it
  may well be in the eternity." (CR, Apr 1979)

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Brigham Young

• There is not a young man in our community who
  would not be willing to travel from here to
  England to be married right, if he understood
  things as they are there is not a young woman in
  our community, who loves the Gospel and wishes
  its blessings, that would be married in any other
  way they would live unmarried until they could
  be married as they should be, if they lived until
  they were as old as Sarah before she had Isaac
  born to her.

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President Kimball

• I have warned the youth against the many hazards
  of interfaith marriage, and with all the power I
  possessed, I warned young people to avoid the
  sorrows and disillusionments which come from
  marrying out of the Church and the unhappy
  situations which almost invariably result when a
  believer marries an unbelieving spouse.
• I pointed out the demands of the Church upon its
  members in time, energy, and funds the deepness
  of the spiritual ties which tighten after
  marriage and as the family comes the antagonisms
  which naturally follow such mismating
• the fact that these and many other reasons argue
  eloquently for marriage
  within the Church, where
  husband and wife have common backgrounds,
  common ideals and standards,
  common beliefs, hopes,
  and objectives, and, above all, where
  marriage may be eternalized
  through righteous
  entry into the holy temple

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Hinckleys Laws of Relationship Physics

• Hinckleys Law 1
• For every behavior,
  there is an opposite
  and equal behavior
• Hinckleys Law 2
• A behavior tends to
  stay in motion (or
  at rest),
  until it is acted upon by another behavior
• Hinckleys Law 3
• Behavior Motive/Response

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Public Self
Private Self
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Dance of Intimacy
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Temple WorkerQuoted by President Harold B. Lee

• One morning not so long ago I was sitting at the
  desk in the temple gate house reading when my
  attention was drawn to a knock on the door. There
  stood two little boys, ages about seven or eight
  years. As I opened the door, I noticed that they
  were poorly dressed and had been neither washed
  nor combed. They appeared as if they had left
  home before Father or Mother had awakened that
  morning.
• As I looked beyond these little fellows, I saw
  two infants in pushcarts. In answer to my
  question as to what they wanted, one of the boys
  pointed to his little brother in the cart and
  replied 'His name is Joe. Will you shake hands
  with little Joe? It is little Joe's birthday-he
  is two years old today, and I want him to touch
  the temple so when he gets to be an old man he
  will remember he touched the temple when he was
  two years old.
• "Pointing to the other little boy in the other
  cart, he said this 'This is Mark, he's two years
  old, too.' Then, with a solemn, reverent attitude
  rare in children so young, he asked 'Now can we
  go over there and touch the temple?' I replied
  'Sure you can.'
• They pushed their little carts over to the temple
  and lifted the infants up, and placed their hands
  against that holy building. Then as I stood there
  with a lump in my throat, I heard the little boy
  say to his infant brother, 'Now, Joe, you will
  always remember when you was two years old you
  touched the temple.' They thanked me and departed
  for home."

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President Lee Continues

• As I have gone throughout the Church, I have been
  concerned to know why there are so many of our
  young people who do not avail themselves of the
  opportunity of going to the temple. I have asked
  our leaders as I have gone about to stake
  conferences, and they have given me several
  answers.
• The most frequent reason given is that young
  people do not have proper encouragement from
  their homes. Unfortunately, many, unlike the
  little children in the incident I have related,
  have not been impressed in their childhood with
  the sacred privileges of the temple.
• Parents who themselves have lightly regarded
  their temple covenants can expect little better
  from their children because of their bad
  example. Little children should not be taught
  to reverence the temple itself but to look
  forward reverently to the holy experiences
  which one day might be theirs.