I have been studying Jan VT message, page 61 of Jan ENSIGN. The very last paragraph by Elder Richard G Scott gives the very reason that my inspiration and power have grown so. He said, "You cannot today remotely imagine what that decision to be unwaveringly obedient to the Lord will allow you to accomplish in life. Your quiet, uncompromising determination to live a righteous life will couple you to inspiration and power beyond your capacity now to understand."
I can look back and see this with clarity:
1. Two weeks after I joined the church (1961) I felt a need to promise faithfully that I would never turn down any speaking assignment of anykind in this church because of my speech impediment. As a result my speech today is almost fluent. 99%
2. When Princess Anne was being married years ago, a friend of mine lost a poem God gave her for Princess Anne because she was tired and neglected to write it down. I felt the prompting to promise that I would never neglect my gift, that I would write whatever God saw fit to send me. I have always kept that promise and as a result I have books and books of poems and many lives have been blessed.
3. Some years ago I was prompted to make a commitment to always make the Visiting Teaching Message personal by writing a poem around the message. I made a commitment to always internalize that message and any other message I was to teach before I taught it. As a result my life has grown one message at a time.
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- My name is Suzanne Osborne Halliday. I am a mother of five sons: Michael, Edward, Stephen, Bruce and Daniel. I have a beloved step daughter: Lisa. I am the grandmother of seven grandsons: Anthony, Joshua, Aaron, Tyler, Mattie, Sydney, Zachary, and three grand daughters: Bella, Gali and Alycia. I was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1942 to Harvey Osborne and Joyce White. When I was nine years old my parents moved to Peridot, Arizona, a village on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation where my father had bought a trading post. It was not long after this that I was first introduced to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A family down the road invited me to attend Primary. It was held in the back of the Weech's Trading Post in San Carlos. This was where I learned that I because of Jesus Christ I could return to live with my Heavenly Father again one day. Three years later my heart was touched by a Joseph Smith pamphlet I found in my brother Stevie's lunch pail. I joined the church 13 May 1961 when I was 19 years old. This decision has greatly changed my life.
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