2009-02-08T13:22:00.000-08:00

getting to know me:
emily snyder
living in alpine - my parents have an apartment attached to our house = hEaVeN!!
taught 6th grade for 5 years
mission in Russia
love byu football, fourwheeling, pens, pink, sisters, boating. :)

getting to know you:
current dream
favorite ice cream
what item do you have the most of in your room right now?
run away place?
favorite scripture character

Doctrine and Covenants sections 1 - 6

desires
personal commandments
confidence of being me
HIS work frustrated compared to my molding frustrated
gifts

Test of One

I was with a party of friends, driving over a beautiful valley. We passed a beautiful wheat field. … One of the party expressed his admiration of the luxuriant growth in the field. There it stood apart from the sagebrush and barren surroundings.

But he was not satisfied with looking at it in the aggregate. We stopped, and he looked at individual heads of wheat and exclaimed, “Look what large heads.” Just one; it was the individual stalk that gave him that impression. He then broke the head, shuffled it in his hand, blew the chaff away, and examined each kernel. “The kernels,” he continued, “are plump and solid.” After all, the test of that wheat field was the individual kernel of wheat, and so it is in a community; so it is in the Church.

The test, after all, of the efficiency of God’s people is an individual one. What is the individual doing? Each one should ask, “Am I living so that I am keeping unspotted from the evil of the world?” …

institute thoughts