Ed Week Notes, part 3

Last batch of quotes from my notes:

28-*How close people felt in their neighborhoods is the factor in neighborhood crime rates, not their economics.

28-*Testimony--the story of your experience with the Savior.

29-*We have a tendency to get hung up on food--focus should be on the Savior. Be zealous about kindness, charity and not the food you eat.

29-*Elder Boyd K. Packer said, "Learn to use moderation and common sense in matters of health and nutrition, and particularly in medication."

30-*Elder Neil L. Andersen said, "For most, repentance is more a journey than a one-time event. It is not easy. To change is difficult. It requires running into the wind, swimming upstream. Jesus said, 'If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.' Repentance is turning away from some things, such as dishonesty, pride, anger, and impure thoughts, and turning toward other things, such as kindness, unselfishness, patience, and spirituality. It is 're-turning' toward God. "

31-*You are less likely to have an allergy to white wheat (25%) than red (55%).

31-*Have a 72 hour emergency kit at your workplace as well as at home.

32-*Avoidance slowly eats away at your self-esteem. Push yourself to be vulnerable. This allows you to learn that you can handle whatever happens and that even the most difficult emotions can't destroy you.

32-*Challenge perfectionism--striving for the process rather than the product.

33-*Children don't want to play as much as they want to create.

33-*All work should be slightly fun. Work = creativity time.

34-*Two things you need to know. 1-Some things are dangerous. 2-Speaking in church isn't one of them.

34-*Your attitude is the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks it means your heart is not right.

35-*Whenever you compromise, evil always wins.

35-*We can't dabble in sin without becoming overrun by it.

35-*Don't want to just be delighted to hear [the words of General Conference], but must be delighted to do.

35-*Pres. Howard W. Hunter said, "If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.”

36-*Elder James E. Faust said, "We need not become paralyzed with fear of Satan’s power. He can have no power over us unless we permit it. He is really a coward, and if we stand firm, he will retreat."

36-*Elder M. Russell Ballard said, "Spiritual power over the influence of Satan comes to us by keeping the commandments of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Because He loves you and wants you to come home to Him, our Father in Heaven has given you a conscience that tells your spirit when you are keeping the Lord’s commandments and when you are not."

39-*For emergency preparedness reasons, never let your vehicles get below a 1/2 tank of gas.

40-*One study comparing men to women: Took a math test. Then tried on swim suits and took a math test. Men's test scores were no different in both groups. Women did worse on the test after they tried on the swim suits.

40-*Intuitive eating-eat when hungry, stop when full.

40-*Think of your body as a tool/instrument and not an ornament.

40-*More women suffer from bulimia and anorexia  than have cancer.

40-*Our focus should be on our health, not our weight or size.

And there you have it. Highlights from Ed Week. It really was fabulous. I don't know how many new things I learned this year, but the things I heard, whether old or new, strengthened me and renewed my spirit. Now the challenge is to hold on to that...and General Conference being next weekend is just the booster shot I need. Can't wait!

Ed Week Notes, part 2

(the numbers in front of the quotes and thoughts is the lecture number)

15*Revelation happens when we are pondering in a state of readiness.

16*Spiritual healing takes place in Sacrament Meeting--mostly during the administration of the sacrament.

17*Elder Scott said, "When you encourage students to raise their hand to respond to a question, while they may not realize it, they signify to the Holy Ghost their willingness to learn."

17*Elder Neal A Maxwell said, "The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the Babe has given at least equal attention to 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."

17*When it comes to things like seminary over swimming--you don't give kids choice when it deals with spiritual matters.

17*Pres. Ezra Taft Benson said, "When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives."

18*Feeling the Spirit should be like sitting on a tack--it should make you jump up and do something.

19*Elder Neal A Maxwell said, "The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents."

21*Parents are not judged as parents by what their children do. We are judged by what we do and what we become as parents (ie growing closer to Heavenly Father). Children have agency. Just have influence and seek the Spirit as best we can.

21*We don't get stronger when we sin and repent. Repenting just gets us back in the "weight room." Resisting temptation gives us spiritual strength--that's why Christ is a spiritual giant.

22*Make covenants when in your strength and they help to sustain you when you are weak.

22*President Thomas S. Monson said, "How many times has your heart been touched as you have witnessed the need of another? How often have you intended to be the one to help? And yet how often has day-to-day living interfered and you’ve left it for others to help, feeling that “oh, surely someone will take care of that need.”

"We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes."

22*President Thomas S. Monson said, "I may have walked where Jesus once walked, but what is more important to me is that today, I can walk where Jesus would walk if He were still with us.  I can listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and minister to those the Savior would minister to today."

22*Jerry Johnston of the Deseret News wrote an article about Pres. Hinckley. He said something like, "President Hinckley longs to be where I am now. I can live out Pres. Hinckley's fantasy...I have no clue what I'd do if I were in his shoes, but I do know what he'd be doing if he were in my shoes." (out among the people serving)

24*Urgent tasks are those which call for haste, immediate action, or application of pressure. Vital tasks are those which have great meaning, significance, worth, consequence, influence, or value. They deal with preparation, prevention, planning, relationship building, and personal growth. We feel great, we feel the Spirit, and we feel contentment when our day is spent on vital tasks and not urgent ones. The urgent will diminish as we pay attention to the vital....You feel fulfilled as you schedule the vital into your week.

26*If you fear, you don't act, and that's what faith is--acting.

27*Elder Boyd K. Packer said, "Things of the Spirit need not—indeed, should not—require our uninterrupted time and attention. Ordinary work-a-day things occupy most of our attention. And that is as it should be. We are mortal beings living in this physical world. Spiritual things are like leavening. By measure they may be very small, but by influence they affect all that we do."


OK, we're 2/3rds of the way done. Lectures 28-41 will be posted in the near future.