President Hinckley was the prophet of my youth. I always remember his teachings.
I was 9 years old when he gave his talk called "Stand True and Faithful."
He said, " We know when we have done the wrong thing and we also know when we have done the right thing." It scares me to know that we are (for many years) starting to see that the world doesn't know or may they don't care about doing the wrong thing.
People trying to take advantage of others, it's a thing we sadly see everywhere now.
President Hinckley also talks about being true, true to ourselves, to our parents, to our religion. True means being honest. He said, "Suppose that you needed a life-saving operation. You would not want that operation performed by a surgeon who had cheated in medical school, would you? Of course not." It made me think about my dealings with others.
Every time, I have the chance to do something, I asked myself, will this help me keep my temple recommend? If not, I don't participate.
This week has been a great week to think about how can I be more trustworthy. There is always room for improvement, I know it. I also make an effort to be true and how do I do that? by just thinking often about it.
You know, tax season is here, it would be super easy for companies to cheat the numbers and it would super easy for families to cheat numbers too. I wish we could be more like Nephi and Zoram. When they used that oath (As the Lord liveth...) they trusted each other. Their word, that is all that was needed to trust each other.
The world needs more people like Nephi and Zoram, trustworthy.
Ok, now to the homework.
The habit that was more meaningful from the lecture and video from this week was "Be proactive"
The author said, "We have to be self-started, shakers and movers and decision-makers.It's hard to lead from behind."
I think that all the habits we talked about this week will help me live a more meaningful life. Being proactive, putting first things first, thinking win/win, all those can be applied to everybody no matter their circumstances. We can all make a big and positive impact in this world.
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