By Alan on May 20 in Blog tagged House of the Lord, Mormon, temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | No Comments

“We Are The Only People

Who Know What Temples Are For”

George Albert Smith

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Temples are literally houses of the Lord. They are holy places of worship where individuals make sacred covenants with God. Because making covenants with God is such a solemn responsibility, individuals cannot enter the temple to receive their endowments or be sealed in marriage for eternity until they have fully prepared themselves and been members of the Church for at least a year. Throughout history, the Lord has commanded His people to build temples. The Church is working to build temples all over the world to make temple blessings more available for a greater number of Heavenly Father’s children.

“And verily I say unto you, let this house be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine
ordinances therein unto my people; for I deign to reveal unto my church things which have been
kept hid from before the foundation of the world, things that pertain to the dispensation of the
fulness of times.”
Doctrine & Covenants 124:40-41

For The Family

By Alan on May 20 in Blog tagged good and evil, NOIZ, open your mouth, Satan, speak up, The Family, turn the world around, war, Zion | No Comments

IT’S TIME TO GET NOIZ !!! (NOISY)

Let’s

TURN THE WORLD AROUND

The Family is at WAR

with SATAN over

Eternal Life!

Boyd K. Packer, President of the Twelve Apostles said,

“Satan cannot directly take a life. But apparently his effort to stop the work will be reasonably well served if he can just bind the tongue of the faithful.

Brethren, if that is the case, I am looking tonight for men young and old who care enough about this battle between good and evil to sign on and speak up. We are at war, and I want to be a one-man recruiting station.”

“We Are All Enlisted”!  

“We are waiting now for soldiers; who’ll volunteer.”  Of course, the great thing about this call to arms is that we ask not for volunteers to fire a rifle or throw a hand grenade. No, we want battalions who will take as their weapons “every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.”  So I am looking for missionaries who will not voluntarily bind their tongues but will, with the Spirit of the Lord and the power of their priesthood, open their mouths and speak miracles by which faith’s “mightiest works have been, and will be, performed.”

I ask for a stronger and more devoted voice, … a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

The Lord said,

D&C  60:2  “But with some I am not well pleased, for they will not open their mouths, but they hide the talent which I have given unto them, because of the fear of man. Wo unto such, for mine anger is kindled against them.”

If we “Turn the World Around” . . . NOIZ will also “turn around” and spell ZION!  ”The happiest people that ever lived.”

By Alan on May 19 in Daily Inspiration tagged ancestors, Family, genealogy, history, Osmond, relatives | No Comments

 How are we related?

 www.osmondfamily.org

By Alan on May 19 in Blog tagged commitment, complement, Family, Father, fidelity, husband, Linda and Richard Eyre, love, man, marriage, married, mother, oneness, priesthood power, procreative power, relationship, stewardship, together, ways, wife, woman | No Comments

I Love Marriage.

A short essay on Linda, love and being a husband by Richard Eyre

I love mariage.  I love everything about marriage, even the disagreements and tough times.  I love having someone with whom I share everything and who knows everything about me, sometimes things I don’t even know myself.

I love partnership with my wife, full and total partnership where we literally try to share everything, even bank accounts, even our emails, even everything; and where there are no secrets, even little ones.

Neither of us is anything remotely close to perfect, and neither is our relationship, but I love the synergy of that and how all of my weaknesses seem to be made up and compensated for by Linda’s strength, and where, on our best days, our total is greater than the sum of its parts.

I love that we each have our own ways of doing things, very different ways that, again on our good days, complement each other and make possible things that neither of us could do on our own.

I have come to acknowledge and partially understand that Linda is, like all women, a complex organism and that if you try to change one little thing or one little part of her you might set off some kind of chain reaction that would alter the whole and end up changing the very things you love most about her.  Therefore, I tell her, in total honesty, that I would not change one little thing about her.  I have told her that so much, and explained the reasoning behind it, that I think she finally believes me.

I love the word “husband.”  It means stewardship, it means care, it means cherishing and taking care of.  But I think it also means partnership — the kind with complete respect and unbending commitment and fidelity.

I love that Linda’s role in our family is the most important one — that her instinctive and intuitive love of our children has guided their lives more than any other thing and that the title of “Mother” truly is the most important and influential and indispensable and irreplaceable role on this planet.

I love the fact that we share both the procreative power and the priesthood power — that neither can be fully or fruitfully used by one of us without the other.  I love that Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve said in his recent conference talk that just as a woman cannot have a child without a man, so a man cannot fully and eternally use the priesthood without the woman.

I love the poetic quality of that statement — that both procreative power and priesthood power must be shared between a celestially married man and woman.

 I love that an individual man or an individual woman is not a perfectible entity, but that a man and woman together are.

I even love what Benjamin Franklin said — that a single man is like a half a pair of scissors.  And I love the gospel knowledge that tells us that every one of God’s children, whether on this earth or hereafter, will have the opportunity of everlasting marriage and oneness and family glory.

Oh, by the way, and in case you couldn’t tell, I love Linda.

Note: Richard and Linda Eyre are New York Times No. 1 best-selling authors who lecture throughout the world on family-related topics.  Visit them anytime at www.EyresFreeBooks.com or at www.valuesparenting.com.

For The Family

By Alan on May 18 in Daily Inspiration tagged complete, emotional, house, mental, person, physical, spiritual | No Comments

Everyone Is A House

Everyone is a house with four rooms:

a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual.

Many tend to live in one room most of the time.

But we must go into each room every day,

even if only to breathe in its air momentarily,

if we are to be a complete person

(An Old East Indian Proverb)

 . . . . . . .

“Organize yourselves;

prepare every needful thing,

and establish a house,

even a house of prayer,

a house of fasting,

a house of faith,

a house of learning,

a house of glory,

a house of order,

a house of God.”

Doctrine and Covenants 109:8

(A Scripture Given By Revelation)

Virl Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on May 17 in Blog tagged ability, ahead, being, Christ, course, determination, don't, eternity, God, hearts, Jesus, life, people, perfect, power, righteousness, salvation, souls, who you are | No Comments

Don’t Let People Tell You Who You Are

“There was only one perfect being, the Lord Jesus. If men had to be perfect and live all of the laws strictly, wholly, and completely [to be eligible for eternal life], there would be only one saved person in eternity. There are many things to be done, even beyond the grave, in working out our salvation.

And so what we do in this life is chart a course leading to eternal life. That course begins here and now and continues in the realms ahead. We must determine in our hearts and in our souls, with all the power and ability that we have, that from this time forward we will press on in righteousness; by so doing we can go where God and Christ are. If we make that firm determination, and are in the course of our duty when this life is over, we will continue in that course in eternity”

The Prophet Joseph Smith

Don Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on May 16 in Blog tagged God, heaven, inspiration, Jesus Christ, laws, learn, mars, nature, plan, powers, principles, righteousness, study | No Comments

How To Get To Mars

Only Upon The Laws and Principles Of Nature

with Work and Inspiration and by Seeking for that

Ultimate Goal and Reward.

.

Similar To  How To Get To Heaven

Only Upon The Principles Of Righteousness.

 ”All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

According to that which was ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of all other gods before this world was, that should be reserved unto the finishing and the end thereof, when every man shall enter into his eternal presence and into his immortal rest.

D&C 121:29, 32

For The Family
God’s Plan of Happiness

By Alan on May 12 in Blog tagged battle, battlefield, bore, heart, her part, mother, no battle, no cannon, no sword, patiently, silently, thought, words | No Comments

“Motherhood is the most respected and noblest of all callings.”
President Boyd K. Packer

Chris Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on May 11 in Blog tagged 60, creator, love, married, mother, Mother's Day, Osmonds, Second Generation, Suzanne Pinegar Osmond, wife, years | 1 Comment

Happy Birthday & Happy Mother’s Day

Suzanne Osmond

Today, May 11, 2013, is Suzanne Pinegar Osmond’s Birthday.  We are celebrating her 60th Birthday and tomorrow, Mother’s Day!

Suzanne married Alan R. Osmond on July 16, 1974 and together had eight sons; Michael, Nathan, Douglas, David, Scott, Jon, Alex & Tyler Osmond.

All of their eight boys are eagle scouts.  All are married except for Tyler and have blessed Suzanne and Alan with twenty three grandchildren with #23 yet to be born the end of June.

Nathan Osmond, our second son is an amazing song writer entertainer and musician, director as well as producer who made this video as a surprise for Suzanne’s special dinner we all are having tonight.

Suzanne is a special and wonderful Mother and wife and is so dedicated to her husband Alan, her children as a mother, and to her grandchildren, as a grandmother.

We all wish Suzanne a Happy Birthday and Mother’s day along with all the other Moms around the world who take most seriously their role as  a wives, a mothers and creators of life, who love and nurture God’s children here on earth.

The Osmonds Second Generation

“Motherhood is the most respected and noblest of all callings.”
President Boyd K. Packer

Alan Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on May 10 in Daily Inspiration tagged grow up fast, intelligent, kids, smart, Today | No Comments

 Kids Today Are So Smart 

“A smart kid will give you smart answers, but a wise kid will ask you smart questions.”

Marlon Snow
For The Family