Douglas L. Callister | Your Refined Heavenly Home | September 19, 2006 | BYU Broadcasting

Douglas L. Callister | Your Refined Heavenly Home | September 19, 2006 | BYU Broadcasting


So you should click on the link above and listen to the talk. It is pretty much amazing. I listened to to three times yesterday. I first heard it on the way to the airport to pick up my parents. I only heard part of it so when I got home and started making dinner I looked it up and listened to it in it's entirety. And I just thought I would share. Please enjoy!

So Online Dating....

So as you know I started an online dating profile. It has been interesting, to say the least. I have over 220 page views, ha ha ha. I find that funny and exciting, who knew I would have so many guys intrigued by my photo. But my favorite are the messages I get, here is a sampling of some of my favorites, "Mmmm, Michelle Williams called, she wants her face back," "You are like an attractive Mother Teresa." Both very funny. Online dating is weird and awkward, you are basically selling yourself. Weird.
And I have another problem. I have a very hard time telling people no. I don't want to be mean! But I had a talk with my good friend Paul and he gave me his big talk, "You can tell guys no Leah." He is brilliant.
But is hasn't all been bad, I have corresponded with some, what seem like, really good guys.

So on another but related note, I have been on a couple of dates with this new guy in my singles ward. He is on the Hockey team and just moved into the ward. He is pretty awesome and he will totally get along with my brother Ryan. (I know what some of you are thinking, if he gets along with Ryan how is Leah interested in him? He plays hockey ok, and he is really nice and good looking, so we will see).

In Honor of Valentines Day

So it is not really in honor of V day, I actually totally forgot about V day, honestly, I have no reason to celebrate it and it is not like it is a actual holiday that I get off work or anything, so anyway. I have signed up for online dating, and it scares the ba-gee-ba-dee's out of me. But the last 3 days I have had 3 people suggest that I do it, and I was told that I "need to put myself out there". So I thought what the hay, I might as well try it, so I went to LDS Singles and signed up. I actually signed up on Saturday and I have over 70 pageviews, so that is good I guess. I have had a few guys send me messages, can I just tell you that I am having a little panic attack right now even thinking about it, it is so scary, I don't know these guys, they could be lying about everything. I really hope they are not and I am trying to be really optimistic but knowing my track record they are all crazy creepers.

Fix it.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

Oh that I were an angel

"Oh that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart.....that here might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth. But behold, I am a (wo)man."

Oh I wish this! I wish there could be no more sorrow on the earth. It is too much, too much sorrow, to much suffering, too much sadness, too much pain, for people who do not deserve it. I wish I could take it all away. Give happiness and joy, love and charity. But I am but one person and can only do so much. Oh that I were an angel! But "perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God....and this is my joy."






100 points if you can guess the reference...not the normal 10 for guessing my ringback, this is big! :)

POSTED BY LEAH JONES AT 4:44 AM


So this is actually a post, as you might tell, from my blog that I kept while I was in Africa. I was having a bad day and I saw somethings that I really wanted to fix and I knew that I  couldn't fix them myself. I had that feeling again yesterday and today. There are so many things  I  want to fix.  Conflict, war, anger, hunger, poverty, injustice, ignorance, intolerance, hatred,  but there is only so much that I  can do.  But I will try my best and be the best that I can be, and do as Mother Teresa said, "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." 

Good enough

I had an amazing RELIEF SOCIETY lesson today about self-esteem. and it made me think of this post and my time in Africa. The lesson was from Elder James E Faust Address at a CES fireside called the value of self esteem. 

In the address he gave six keys for healthy self-esteem

1) Keep your AGENCY. 

"This means that we must not surrender self-control nor yield to habits that bind, to addiction that enslaves, nor to conduct that destroys. To keep our agency we must avoid the deadly traps and pitfalls from which there may be no escape. Some, having been ensnared, spend the best years of their life trying to escape and so exhaust themselves in the process that in the end, even though they ultimately find themselves freed from the addiction, they are spent, burned out, their nerves shot, and their brains dulled forever."

2) Humility 

"I mean the humility that comes with inner strength and peace. It is the humility that allows us to accept and live with our own warts, without cosmetics to hide them"

3) Honesty 

"Honesty begins with being true to one’s own self.... Being true to one’s own self is the essence of honesty and a keystone of self-esteem." 

4) Love of Work

"In my experience, there are very few people who are of true genius. While there are those who are gifted, most of the world’s work and some of the greatest contributions come from ordinary people with a talent which they have developed....What we accomplish helps our self-esteem. Sometimes we may think, “The work I do is unimportant,” or “I’m only this or that.” Every job that has to be done is important, no matter how minimal it seems; someone has to do it." 

5) Ability to Love 

"Am I secure enough in my love of myself to laugh at myself, to admit mistakes, to graciously accept a compliment? Am I secure in my love of others to smile and say hello to a perfect stranger? "

6) Love of God 

 

It was a really good lesson and I just wanted to share, because I know so many people suffer from low self-esteem (I get down on myself a little too often). It is good to remember that we really are good and we don't have to be perfect, every second of every day. There is only ONE person on this earth that has been perfect. And we can strive to be better every day, but remember that it is a life long process, and into the next life. We just need to be a little better today than we were yesterday. If we do that then we are on the right path and there is no need to feel bad or feel like we are not good enough. Because we are good enough.