“12: Stay on Task, Receive Ordinances,” My Foundation: Principles, Skills, Habits (2015), 26–27
“12: Stay on Task, Receive Ordinances,” My Foundation, 26–27
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Stay on Task, Receive Ordinances
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Ponder:What keeps us from doing the things that matter most?
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“Doing What Matters Most” (No video? Read the next page.)
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Discuss:What are some insignificant things people do to waste their time? The Lord commanded Joseph Smith to build temples even when Church members were very poor. Why?
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Read:Doctrine and Covenants 84:20; 136:4; 1 Nephi 18:2–3 (on the right)
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Read:“The Law of Soil Management” (on the next page)
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Discuss:What did the Lord reveal to Elder Widtsoe in the temple? What did the Lord reveal to Nephi in the mount?
As we seek self-reliance, why is it so important to be temple worthy?
With a partner, read the scripture below. What does it mean to you that through temple worship we are prepared to receive every needful thing in our lives? Talk about what this means to your life and your goal of self-reliance.
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Commit:Commit to doing the following actions during the week. Check the boxes when you complete each task:
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Practice being temple worthy every day.
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Teach this principle to your family. Teach them how temple attendance will help them succeed spiritually and temporally, and discuss with them what you must do to receive the Lord’s power that is found in temple ordinances.
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Continue to practice the previous foundation principles.
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The Law of Soil Management
ELDER WIDTSOE: For several years, under a federal grant with my staff of workers, we had gathered thousands of data in the field of soil moisture; but I could not extract any general law running through them. I gave up at last.
My wife and I went to the temple that day to forget the failure. In the third endowment room, out of the unseen, came the solution, which has long since gone into print. …
That is the gift that comes to those who enter the temple properly, because it is a place where revelations may be expected. I bear you my personal testimony that this is so.
(In Alan K. Parrish, Modern Temple Worship, 156–57)