Leadership word study

LE'ADER, noun

1. One that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

2. A chief; a commander; a captain.

3. One who goes first.

4. The chief of a party or faction; as the leader of the whigs or of the tories; aleader of the Jacobins.

5. a performer who leads a band or choir in music 

Um, not quite what I was looking for but I guess you could look at it symbolically like a good leader lets the people make good music/good deeds.

   Alma 56:5

• Book of Mormon

Therefore it sufficeth me that I tell you that two thousand of these young men have taken their weapons of war, and would that I should be their leader; and we have come forth to defend our country.

If you are good leader than people will respect you and trust you to lead them. 

Thoughts:

In order to be a good leader we need to earn peoples trust, love and devotion. People are not going to obey you if they don't trust you, think of it this way if some random bum told you to do something you probably would not do it because you did not trust him. We earn peoples love by being loving, love others and they will love you. You need to be inclusive, don't leave others out you need to care about others. In Elantris Reoden gets to be a leader over others because his goal was to make the peoples lives better. 

Word study on EVIL

Thoughts on 1828 dictionary definition:

Being mischievous is evil cause you want to cause trouble.

Thoughts on opposing evil by Gordon B. Hinckley:

There are still good people. we can't expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground our selfs. Be true to yourself. Do wholesome activity. Put on the whole armor of God.

Thoughts on Scriptures:

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of others

Proverbs 17:13

Don't reward evil for good #countingstars. :)

Thoughts: 

I think evil means going against something you know to be right. Or deliberately causing trouble. So some of the terrists now days so bad things cause they think they will go to heaven if they die doing it, they think what they are doing is right so are they evil?

Word study on chaos

So we watched the Dark Knight yesterday and one of the assignments we need to do is a word study on chaos. 

CHAOS, noun

1. That confusion, or confused mass, in which matter is supposed to have existed, before it was separated into its different kinds and reduced to order, by the creating power of God. Rudis, indigestaque moles.

2. Any mixed mass, without due form or order; as a chaos of materials.

3. Confusion; disorder; a state in which the parts are undistinguishe

Sometimes at my house it seems like chaos, where it seems like there is no order :). Also chaos was going through my mind when there was no scriptures on chaos in or disorder so I will skip to my thoughts.

How can we prevent chaos? I think we can prevent chaos by trying to see every else s point of view or why they did what they did. If there is someone in charge that people will listen to.

A lot of the terrorists now days do things to create chaos, so I think we need to know how to stop chaos. Chaos turns people against one another, which is bad. 

Becoming word study!

Thoughts on Becoming converted (D. Todd Christofferson)

How to become truly converted: have a open and willing heart, lay aside any feeling of pride, don't just read study the Gospel, pray for pure love, practice/act on the gospel. 

Helaman 3:16:

We can become wicked to! (Don't do that) 

Mosiah 15:5

We must become subject to the Spirit.

My thoughts:

We must strive to become like Heavenly Father someday. We have to be truly converted. Become a better person!

Word study for clear

1828 dictionary: Open clear from obstruction; as a clear plat of ground; the  way is clear

Free from clouds, or fog; as a clear day.

I like how it says free from clouds because sometimes our mind can be clouded and we have to clear it.  

Jacob 5:65

"And as they begin to grow ye shall clear away the branches which bring forth bitter fruit, according to the strength of the good and the size thereof all at once, lest the roots thereof should be too strong for the graft, and the graft thereof shall perish, and I lose the trees of my vinyard."

I think we need to clear away the bad things in our life so we can have a clear mind.

My thoughts on clear

In order to have a clear mind we must purify our selfs, repent and forgive. Starting with a prayer in my study's helps me have a clear mind.

Knowledge word study

Key words: facts, information and reasoning.

I think in order to have true knowledge we need to have the Spirit guide us in our decisions we should never cease to add to our knowledge. We should use our knowledge of others to help them.

Word study leader

1828 dictionary: "a chief; commander; a captain. One who goes first."

I think in order to be a good leader you need to earn trust and love. We canot be a selfish leader or people will turn from you. Jesus is a perfect example of a leader. You need to make good desisions cause oft times people look up to you. You should never be mean to any one who looks up to you or you will lose their trust. We should not love our influence over others and we should use it for good.

Notes on Seeing with new eyes by Paul A. Cox

We need to notice good things so be alert, and open. We can over come temptations by holding fast to the word of God. Christ and Heavenly Father can open our eyes to things we did not see before. Though some people do good without beleaving the gospel  they miss "a more exelent way". We should never mistake a little truth to be an entire truth.

Wait upon the Lord. Waiting requires patience.

Seek for the beautiful.

Seek the truly beautiful things not things that are fakely beautiful.

We can have science and God.

Science has the great ability to answer how but not so much why.

Decide word study

1828 definition:

DECI'DE, verb intransitive To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion.

We cannot decide how far resistance is lawful or practicable.

The court decided in favor of the defendant.

That's cool cause it kinda tells us how deciding is so important. If we don't decide on something than we'll never come to a conclusion.

Jim Staley video notes: Judging, that goes with decision. Tet means decision, like choice between good and evil. If you don't let go of your anger it will destroy you.

Other study: Heavenly Father expects us to use our knowledge, experiments, and faith to guide our own decisions.                   Counsel with the Lord in all our doings. If we are not sure what the right decision is pray!

Good, better, best. Dallin H. Oaks: Just because some thing is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The things better than good are what we should focas on. Don't be in to much extra curricular activity.

How will focas help me make the right decisions? Cause if we really focas on something it should come clear what the right thing to do is!

Armor of God Nov week 3

Find something in your life that you want to change. Teasing. 
As you take read the chapter, take note of what you need to do to help you make this change. Find something spiritual to replace it. If I tease confess it.
What does it have to do with remembrance? We need to remember to put Christ and Heavenly Father in the center of our lives so we can repent more easily. 

Word study on remember.

The biblical concept of remembrance:

We need to remember Christ in all things.

We need to remember his commandments. 

1828 definition.  

1. To have in the mind an idea which had been in the mind before, and which recurs to the mind without effort.

We are said to remember any thing, when the idea of it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we have had this idea before.

We should remember our good things we have been taght.

The Holy Ghost can help is remember the Savior. 

Notes on To always remember him (elder D. Todd Christopherson.)

We should strip everything out of our lives and put it back together with the Savior as the priority. Frequent prayer and scripture study help us remember Christ. Remembering the judgement day to come can help us make right choices.

Just cause we have forgotten something in the past does not make it gone

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Word study on charity!

How does charity help me be focased on things that matter most? Because it helps me be focused on others. And love God. 

What I thought was cool from the 1828 definition: I liked how it said in a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men it's cool because charity is also a love for God and if we love God we will want to do the universal good will to men!

How do I develop it? By practicing! 

Hebrew letter gimmel video notes:

Gimmel=camel=rise, pride, to lift up, to go after, the generous rich man.

This connects to gimmel like pride not the bad pride but the good pride like proud of your son. Or the camel rises up for the rich generous man. 

Gimmel=generosity or charity! 

Faith is what makes the father happy.

Other things about charity:

Charity is the pure love of Christ. 

Moroni 7:46 says Wherfore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherfore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail.

Cool! so charity will never fail so we should do it!

1Peter 4:8 says And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover a multitude of sins.

It says have fervent charity. I think that true charity is not just giving say 100 bucks to a poor person so you can brag about it to a friend true charity is doing it cause you actually care about them.

Neil L Anderson said if their must be hope their also must be charity.

So hope and charity go together.

 

Charity quote!

Moroni 7:46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail— 

Why I liked it: I liked I cause it says charity never faileth, and I do something that will never fail!!

Charity means to me after all my study's and everything to love God and serve others with the intent to help them and not to boast. I think I can work on it by putting others before myself.

How cameras work!

The lens of a camera takes beams of light that bounce of a object and redirect them to come together and form a real image like a magnifying glass. That's how it focusses.  

Armor of God nov week 1

My strategy of defense is to remember the Savior by my side and on the cross for our sins. 

How did it help me this week? Well it helped me feel his love for me so it made it easier to disregard temptations.

How else can focus be used to defend myself from the adversary? Well if I am focused on good things all the time I'll have the sprit with me so that will make it harder for Saten. 

  

Aspire oct week four

We have to decide what we want to accomplish, or someone might tell us to accomplish something our heart is not into.

Inspire=encourage expire=discourage 

We have the power to help people feel confident or degrade people. 

Armor of God oct week four

What I learned from resisting Satens ways of tempting me with addictive  behavior was I chose to try not to watch videos or check my email before four o'clock was that it's hard but it will give me more time to do my stuff.

What learned from the principle this month

The principle this month is if your heart is right your actions will be right. And what I learned from that is we need to let Christ into our hearts and our actions will be right.

Poem journeymen inspirement oct week three

How did my interpatation differ from the other reader: I think she made it flow better.

Did you receive any different insights as you heard someone else read the poem: I think she said it more soft.

Aspire oct week three!

Humility is being teachable and coachable so we need to listen to people sometimes :) we can become better with it!