notes from stake conference

• someday really means not this day
• reverence for the Lord means serving other and treating them with respect
• we can be faithful over a few things
• understanding our diving nature influences how we feel about our Heavenly Father and how we relate to other around us
• we must be "kind and dear"
• train your minds and your hands
• refine the quality of mercy
• DC 105:35 - There has been a day of calling, but the time has come for a day of choosing;
• rely utterly on the Lord and have confidence in Him
• uncomplicate our lives
• we have always had the darkness, wars etc that we have now
• DC 121:26-31 God shall give unto you knowledge by his Holy Spirit...
• never fear scholarship
• 85% of the people on earth have lived since 1820
• shall we not go forward in so great a cause?
• virtue means being true to our divine nature
• imagination helps us see the possibilities
• is our imagination strengthening and edifying vs being led away by wicked imaginations
• happiness of your life is dependant on the quality of your thoughts
• the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven (from Paradise Lost)