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6 Childlike Traits that You've Probably Lost (And How to Get Them Back) BRAD WILCOX - 9 HOURS AGO Prophets in the scriptures tell us to be more child-like all the time. Somewhere along the way we must have lost those traits. Straight from Brad Wilcox's new book,  The 7-day Christian , find out how to get them back. I have spent much of my life working with children and those who teach and care for them. I have noticed children quite naturally possess attributes that we sometimes end up missing in our adult lives: an inner desire to do right, a sense of worth, the ability to be happy, a capacity to love, an innate sense of wisdom, and a deep and trusting faith. It is as if children are carrying full buckets of water, and then they stagger into their teenage years and the water starts sloshing out. Then they face the blows of adulthood, and even more water escapes. Soon people are standing around with empty buckets. This emptiness is not because the buckets were neve...

 THIS IS THE FINAL ENTRY OF SAMUEL MILES' JOURNAL.  THIS LAST ENTRY IS RATHER LONG, AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME READING IT.  THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY OF EARLY ST. GEORGE, WHICH HE WAS A PART OF. 1862 - After closing my school in March, I resumed my farming and cultivated two city lots.  On the 7th of May was born my fifth son called John Talmar.  I acted as teacher in the ward and assisted Bishop Hill in settling tithing.  Three hundred teams were sent to the frontiers to assist the poor saints to the valley.  (These were saints on the plains who needed help to get to Utah).      On Sunday the 19th of October, 1862,  my name with 150 others was called to go with our families to go strengthen the cotton growing country in the southern part of the Territory. (Dixie -- now St. George) I immediately began to make preparations to go with my family.   I sold my hay and pasture lots near the city.  I made a good fit out wag...

    This is the 3rd entry from Samuel Miles' journal.  Entries # 128 and 130 tell of his early life, and his time in the Mormon Battalion.  Blog # 131 is a brief history of his life, written by his granddaughter, my aunt Sarah. This begins after he returned home from California, after working a year at Sutter's Fort after being in the Mormon Battalion.   We arrived at the fort in the Salt lake Valley on the 10th of September 1848.  The families who followed the pioneers were living in a fort built of logs and adobes.  I found my brother Ira and wife here he having come with the company who followed the pioneers and had returned with some of the Battalion men going to the frontiers.  I made my home with them and we bought a log house in the fort where we lived through the winter.  I sent one hundred dollars to assist my folks to the valley.  I learned of the death of my father who died December 22nd 1847 in St. Louis Missouri o...

Today I read a very inspirational article in the Meridian Magazine, which reminds us of the message of Easter -- That our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for all of us, and that we all will be resurrected with a perfected body, and according to our choices in life, to more than we could imagine of glory and joy. I'll include the first part, and if you like it and have time, you can read the rest on the link I will leave.--  Have a wonderful Friday, -- some call it "Good Friday" I send my love to you. Friday, April 18 2014 Easter Reflections By Darla Isackson The spiritual crescendo of Easter-time causes me to reflect on the lives of special people I’ve known that are now on the other side of the veil. I’ve been blessed with some extraordinary friends with extreme physical challenges. Several have already been called home (along with many of my relatives), which makes Easter’s promise of the Resurrection even more meaningful for me. I...