Closing Devotional for the Trek - EVERYONE is invited!
August 16, 2009 at 6:00pm at the Stake Center...
We'll have a speaker, a DVD presentation and testimonies...
Monday, July 27, 2009
111 Days to the Cove
So I dug up the items that I buried...
I had to dig in two spots as I forgot where they were buried. Remember we buried them back in April! They were all still there and perfectly fine, nothing was damaged or water logged.
I read the note I had written about what I wanted to get out of going on the trek. What I got and what I wanted to get weren't really that different. It was a great experience!
I hope you all take the time to write down your experiences either in your trek journal or your personal journal. I know that when you read them again you will feel the spirit and remember those feelings you had on the trek.
111 Days to the Cove
Final Week #17...
A little over a year ago, my husband and I visited Nauvoo. As we walked through the Old Pioneer Cemetery searching for the grave of an ancestor, I was touched by the peaceful solitude and spirit I felt. I wept as my heart was turned to our forefathers, many of whom had joined the Church and come to Nauvoo. In my mind I asked many questions: Why did they leave their comfortable homes and families? Why did they suffer persecution, sickness, even death? Why did they sacrifice all that they had to come to this place and build a temple? They hardly had shelter, and yet they were building a temple! Why did they do it? And when the temple was nearly completed, how could they leave it behind? As I sat silently contemplating this scene, the answer came forcefully yet so softly to my mind and heart: “ We did this for you.”
Elaine S. Dalton, “We Did This for You,” Ensign, Nov. 2004,89
1) Drive by the temple. Think about what the pioneers sacrificed for you and for our religion.
2) Snuggle up in a quilt. Record your experiences from the trek. Write down your blessings.
On July 24th dig up your container. Do the things inside mean the same to you? Reread the answers you wrote to why you went on the trek, what you wanted to learn and would the trek change you? Would you answer them differently today? Does the fire burn in you? Jeremiah 20:9 ….”but His word was in mine heart as a burning fire”. Commit yourself to being …”an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”. (1 Timothy 4:12)
A little over a year ago, my husband and I visited Nauvoo. As we walked through the Old Pioneer Cemetery searching for the grave of an ancestor, I was touched by the peaceful solitude and spirit I felt. I wept as my heart was turned to our forefathers, many of whom had joined the Church and come to Nauvoo. In my mind I asked many questions: Why did they leave their comfortable homes and families? Why did they suffer persecution, sickness, even death? Why did they sacrifice all that they had to come to this place and build a temple? They hardly had shelter, and yet they were building a temple! Why did they do it? And when the temple was nearly completed, how could they leave it behind? As I sat silently contemplating this scene, the answer came forcefully yet so softly to my mind and heart: “ We did this for you.”
Elaine S. Dalton, “We Did This for You,” Ensign, Nov. 2004,89
1) Drive by the temple. Think about what the pioneers sacrificed for you and for our religion.
2) Snuggle up in a quilt. Record your experiences from the trek. Write down your blessings.
On July 24th dig up your container. Do the things inside mean the same to you? Reread the answers you wrote to why you went on the trek, what you wanted to learn and would the trek change you? Would you answer them differently today? Does the fire burn in you? Jeremiah 20:9 ….”but His word was in mine heart as a burning fire”. Commit yourself to being …”an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”. (1 Timothy 4:12)
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