A paper form hopefully will provide the 'cup to hold the living water...rather than attempting to hold all the key concepts in our minds.
Create a seven-cell table with the following headings: author, title, key concept, plan to implement, back-up plan, weekly report, weekly evaluation.
What do we do with this table? Here's a case study using last conference:
Author:
Members of the First Presidency speak many times during conference...so for them a qualifier can be put in brackets such as...opening, closing, priesthood, relief society or young women’s...
Monson, Thomas S. (Opening)
Title: As We Meet Together Again
Key Concept (The Holy Ghost Impressed to You):
“If you trust God enough to listen for His message in every sermon, song, and prayer in this conference, you will find it.” (Henry B. Eyring, Oct 2010 General Conference).
‘Continue faithful in attending the temples’
Plan to implement:
Make time to attend Ward Temple Trips
Back-up Plan:
Many options means a larger chance of ‘success’
Read up on covenants ordinances; cultivate a temple-atmosphere in home; cultivate the Holy Ghost; send ancestors to general temple file...
Weekly (or Monthly) Report:
When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.” Thomas S. Monson (Preach my Gospel, page 150)
Week 1: Planned to submit Henry Brewer/Catherine Munk family to general temple file. Already in nfs and done.
Week 2: Re-read Elder Christofferson’s “The Power of Covenants”
Week 3: Planned to find home for things in Kitchen Junk Drawer. More things ended up being added to kitchen junk drawer.
Week 4: Attended Ward Temple Trip
Weekly or Monthly Evaluation:
These questions came from “The Ultimate Diet Log” by Suszanne Schlosberg and Cynthia Sass:
- What went well, and why?
- What didn’t go well? What got in my way?
- What is the most important insight I gained about myself this week?
- What do I plan to do differently next week?
Where to Find the Time?
In theory it is great to be this detailed about applying gospel principles—but where do we find the time to do this recording and reporting and evaluating?
The same place we find the time to do the cleaning, grocery shopping, budgeting, etc...it is a necessity we make time for...
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