Message from President Renner

A lot of people are getting bent out of shape over the upcoming episode of "Big Love" on HBO.  The episode is of course crude and members are free to boycott HBO as my family certainly does.  However, I feel the spirit of the LDS press release is dead-center with regard to the issue.

The link to the press release is:

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-publicity-dilemma

Living with Others in Peace and Harmony

What a wonderful lesson we had today.  Just to recap, here are some parts of the lesson:

1. We want to live in peace with all men.
2. By striving to be peacemakers, we can live in greater harmony and love with others.
3. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Savior taught, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
4. We can cultivate peace by honoring one another and refusing to find fault.
5. We can cultivate harmony in our communities by respecting the freedom of all people to believe according to their own conscience.
6. We will ... cultivate peace and friendship with all, mind our own business, and come off with flying colors, respected, because, in respecting others, we respect ourselves.

Visiting Teaching Workshop

We had such a spiritual experience on Saturday.  I felt the spirit so strongly.  Thank you, Sister Lim for inspiring us to do our best in our visiting teaching.

Personal Righteousness

I was privileged to teach yesterday and I'd just like to post some quotes used in the lesson on the Ten Virgins.

Someone proposed a serious question to me a few years ago by asking, "What is the most important item to have stored in your year's supply?" My response was seriously given - personal righteousness.

--Marion G Romney, Ensign, April 7, 1981, 6

In the parable, oil can be purchased at the market. In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living. Attendance at sacrament meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop over the years. Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptures, each act of dedication and obedience is a drop added

to our store. Deeds of kindness, payment of offerings and tithes, chaste thoughts and actions, marriage in the covenant for eternity, these, too, contribute importantly to the oil with which we can at midnight refuel our exhausted lamps.

--Spencer W Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, 256

Quote - Challenges

"When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith and hard to believe. At these times only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and understanding. Only faith that He suffered for our sakes will give us the strength to endure to the end. When we gain this faith, we experience a mighty change of heart, and like Enos, we become stronger and begin to feel a desire for the welfare of our brothers and sisters. We pray for them, that they too will be lifted and strengthened through faith on the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ."

--Rober D Hales, "Finding Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," Ensign, November 2004, 73

Come What May And Love It

I was so glad today that we had a lesson on this talk by the late Elder Joseph B Wirthlin.  I hope we can all develop this great attitude that his mother had lovingly taught him.  Here's a clip to help us remember him and what he said.

Quote - Courage

"Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be."

--Thomas S Monson, "The Call for Courage", Ensign, May 2004, 54-55

I love quotes from our church leaders. They are like scripture to me. This is a feature I'd like to add to this blog so that all of us can learn together. What do you think?

Welcome, All Sisters

Hi everyone!  I am really excited about this new blog.  I had prayed about how we could communicate more effectively and this idea came to me.

I am no seasoned-blogger but I will do my best to post whatever I can that is related to us sisters in the Kuala Lumpur Branch Relief Society.

Please do comment if you have ideas about this blog or anything that we can do to improve our sisterhood.

I hope to update this blog often so please come visit whenever you can or you can subscribe to it so that you'll be informed whenever there's a new post.

All sisters who have your own blogs, please let me know how I can link you to this blog so that other sisters can read your blogs too.

So, here it is - our very own blog!