You CHOOSE your DESTINY - Gordon B. Hinckley

 

"In my quiet moments, I think of the future with all of its wonderful possibilities and with all of its terrible temptations. I wonder what will happen to you in the next 10 years. Where will you be? What will you be doing? That will depend on the choices you make, some of which may seem unimportant at the time but which will have tremendous consequences."

 

"Stay on the High Road," Ensign, May 2004, 112-113

The Courage to CHOOSE THE RIGHT - Thomas S. Monson

 

"Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' 

 

Decisions do determine destiny.

"The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be."

 

"The Call for Courage," Ensign, May 2004, 54-55

You CHOOSE your Response to Adversity

 

 "Certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else."

 

"And Nothing Shall Offend Them," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 90

Choose the Better Choice - Dallin H. Oaks

"As we consider various choices, we should remember that it is not enough that something is good. Other choices are better, and still others are best. Even though a particular choice is more costly, its far greater value may make it the best choice of all.

"Consider how we use our time in the choices we make in viewing television, playing video games, surfing the Internet, or reading books or magazines. Of course it is good to view wholesome entertainment or to obtain interesting information. But not everything of that sort is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. Some things are better, and others are best. When the Lord told us to seek learning, He said, 'Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom' (D&C 88:118)."

 "Good, Better, Best," Ensign, Nov. 2007, 104-105

December = Choice and Accountability

Increase your knowledge in all things

“Obtain a knowledge of history, and of countries, and of kingdoms, of laws of God and man, and all this for the salvation of Zion” 

(D&C 93:53). 

Get excited about increasing your knowledge and education!

What can you do to be a better student?

I saw this plaque today, and I immediately thought of YW lesson on Sunday (Lesson 41, Manual 2) on Optimism.  We discussed how it physically effects you to be with depressing people - they are like emotional vampires that drain your energy.  Here, this quote from Voltaire, reminds us that HAPPINESS {or Positivity, or Optimism} is actually beneficial for our health. 

How do you feel when you're happy? How do you make others feel?  

Click here to purchase this lovely plaque. It's from MB Art Studios.