President Kimball's address about keeping a personal journal has had a deep impact upon me from my youth. Just yesterday, as I prepared a map and compass course for scouts, I was reminded that I have learned that the "Sunday school answers" like keeping the Sabbath day holy and attending church, praying, being temple worthy, … Continue reading Personal Journals
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Children and Mothers
This quote from Elder Henry B. Eyring's classic BYU Devotional has helped me think about the importance of children to a mother more deeply: "Men and women working outside the home deal mostly with early crops and with the law of diminishing returns. In the home, they spend far more on late crops and the … Continue reading Children and Mothers
Sidney Gilbert, Section 53, and Being Quiet
Sidney Gilbert's life (1) gives the impression he was a quiet man, as described by Susan Cain (2). I think Heber C. Kimball's comments might reflect a momentary lack of appreciation for introverts (3). The following talk is a classic, and very relevant. After referring to the great acts of Heber and others, the author … Continue reading Sidney Gilbert, Section 53, and Being Quiet
I realized how true the following verses are today recently, as I drove a highway along the Florida Keys. In times past, driving on land was very difficult. Water based travel was much, much faster. From about the time of this revelation, things have been changing such that land and air based travel seems to … Continue reading
The Book of Mormon
So, as I've started reading the Book of Mormon again, I wondered why, in the heading Nephi wrote to the book of 1st Nephi, which obviously is written after they have taken the ship and landed in the promised land, he started the summary only listing 4 sons of Lehi, when in fact at the … Continue reading The Book of Mormon
Does anyone have an idea how 24 plates that contained the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon could have contained so much more information than our current English writing systems? The English version of this book is over 20 pages, and yet the content we have is an abridgment of a lot of … Continue reading
I've thought recently of the personal service of my wife and my first home teacher while in school at BYU. Chris Sutherland was from Alberta Canada, and visited us consistently every month, even though we were in college, busy with school, newly weds, and had a lot of other excuses. I don't think I've ever … Continue reading
This quote is worth remembering, for we all will have our share of trials in life: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially … Continue reading
"As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes." "Society should focus anew on the headwaters—the family—where values can be taught, lived, experienced, and perpetuated. Otherwise, … Continue reading
So I remembered the other day a man named Ken Sato who obtained his masters degree in organizational behavior at BYU when I was there. He was more mature than most of the other's in our student ward, and being such, was wise about keeping certain things to himself. Thus it left a great impression … Continue reading
Kip on Character 