Cleaving to your covenants

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First I was inspired by Sister Thompson's talk - I REALLY need to write my personal history and family history! She was speaking about how covenants can keep you safe and happy. A good friend of mine the other day was expressing her wish that the church would teach more about how to be happy while you're waiting for the desired blessings we're taught to desire. I think the church does teach that, but tonight they were DIRECT about it. She said, speaking about the temple endowment, that it will "bring you out of darkness and into glorious light."

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Going on she talked about righteous examples of peace through covenant keeping that are contained in the new book for Relief Society sisters, Daughters in my Kingdom. (see above or go to lds.org)

She quoted a woman who lived through the pioneer era of the church, Sarah Rich:

Many were the blessings we had received in the house of the Lord which has caused us joy and comfort in the midst of all our sorrows and enabled us to have faith in God knowing he would guide us and sustain us in the unknown journey that lay before us.

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 Anyone else want to go to the temple more often? Wow! She then quoted President Monson:

As you and I go to the Holy Houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary, we will find peace, we will be renewed and fortified

She then said, "keeping covenants is TRUE joy and happiness." Isn't that the truth? I haven't once regretted KEEPING a covenant.

I am grateful for my covenants, baptismal and temple. What a joy and protection they are to me. I loved Sister Thompson's faithful demonstration of how to be happy--as Sarah Rich said, "in the midst of our sorrows"