WEBVTT 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:10.260 Paisley: Hey everybody, here we are again. And I've talked about 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:13.290 being still a lot this month, and I think I'm ready to move 00:00:13.290 --> 00:00:16.320 on. So we may not be talking about being still for the rest 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:22.680 of June. Instead, we might be talking about how to harness our 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:25.470 strong personalities. I don't know, we'll see. Let's see how 00:00:25.470 --> 00:00:26.040 this goes. 00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:31.770 What I did this time is I went through President Nelson's talk, 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.690 a plea to my sisters and one that we just talked about the 00:00:33.690 --> 00:00:38.790 other day. And I took, I took out all of the things I pulled 00:00:38.790 --> 00:00:41.760 out, I didn't take them out, I pulled out all of the things 00:00:42.270 --> 00:00:49.170 that he tells us, they need us with our strong personalities. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.860 So I'm going to call this episode we are needed us and our 00:00:52.860 --> 00:00:56.010 strong personalities. And I want to share with you the things 00:00:56.010 --> 00:00:57.630 that I was able to find. 00:00:57.750 --> 00:01:03.000 So I've grouped them into seven different categories, all of 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.770 which he mentions, and then all of the things that all the other 00:01:07.770 --> 00:01:10.380 things that he mentioned, I grouped into one of those seven 00:01:10.380 --> 00:01:13.860 things. So let me show you how this works, or what I did. 00:01:14.550 --> 00:01:19.380 Okay, so the first one is character, he said that they 00:01:19.380 --> 00:01:24.630 need our love, our happiness, and our virtue. All of those are 00:01:24.630 --> 00:01:27.690 characteristics. Those are all something that we build into our 00:01:27.690 --> 00:01:28.380 character. 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:35.010 The second category is vision. They need our vision, strong 00:01:35.010 --> 00:01:39.480 women with vision, the intuition, he mentioned 00:01:39.510 --> 00:01:48.300 intuition. And he mentioned that as distinct characteristics, and 00:01:48.360 --> 00:01:54.630 intuition that have been given to women as gifts from God. So I 00:01:54.630 --> 00:01:59.550 listed intuition on here. We talked about character already. 00:01:59.730 --> 00:02:02.820 And then I also listed gifts from God, because I think it 00:02:02.820 --> 00:02:08.430 would be fun to look into gifts of the Spirit, and how those 00:02:08.430 --> 00:02:11.310 gifts of the Spirit how we can use those and building our 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:14.910 character and sharing our vision. And then I also listed 00:02:14.910 --> 00:02:17.640 gift of discernment, because that went, that is one that he 00:02:17.670 --> 00:02:19.350 specifically calls out. 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:29.999 The next. The next category is wisdom. He said that, that we 00:02:30.150 --> 00:02:39.480 need women who can administer, teach, fearlessly organize. And 00:02:39.631 --> 00:02:48.661 then the lead, he said, I lumped these ones into leadership, 00:02:48.811 --> 00:02:57.239 plan, direct executive ability and make important things 00:02:57.389 --> 00:03:06.419 happen. And just to clarify a little bit that make important 00:03:06.569 --> 00:03:15.750 things happen. He actually said, I've taken some liberties on 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:25.682 this one, he actually said, make important things happen by their 00:03:25.833 --> 00:03:34.561 faith. But faith is a separate category. So I left it over 00:03:34.712 --> 00:03:43.591 there. And I put this one here, because it's more tactical, 00:03:43.742 --> 00:03:52.470 under leading to lead is to plan direct exercise executive 00:03:52.621 --> 00:04:01.199 ability to be able to make important things happen. And I 00:04:01.350 --> 00:04:10.530 listed all four of these main categories under wisdom, once I 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:19.258 heard once a long time ago, and I don't remember, I don't 00:04:19.409 --> 00:04:29.041 remember where it came from. It could be an old Chinese proverb, 00:04:19.590 --> 00:04:23.519 The next category is strength. They need our strength and 00:04:23.588 --> 00:04:27.792 specifically strengthen children and families. And he said to 00:04:27.861 --> 00:04:31.722 strengthen he said to protect and strengthen I moved the 00:04:29.191 --> 00:04:38.221 I don't know, it could just be something that somebody said. 00:04:31.790 --> 00:04:35.857 Protect to a different category. But he said to protect and 00:04:35.926 --> 00:04:39.787 strengthen children and families in a sin sick world. Be 00:04:38.371 --> 00:04:47.100 But they said that, to know something is to have knowledge 00:04:39.855 --> 00:04:43.991 courageous defenders of families in a sensitive world. So to 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:48.403 strengthen our children and to strengthen our families. I would 00:04:47.250 --> 00:04:55.678 of it. But to have wisdom is to apply that knowledge. So 00:04:48.472 --> 00:04:52.884 love to kind of dive in and get more specific about what some of 00:04:52.953 --> 00:04:56.813 the things are that we need to do to help strengthen our 00:04:55.829 --> 00:05:05.310 thinking about it that way, if wisdom is to imply art apply, if 00:04:56.882 --> 00:05:01.155 children. I think it's more than just teaching. I think It's a 00:05:01.224 --> 00:05:04.947 combination of teaching, and leading in a way that our 00:05:05.016 --> 00:05:09.358 children want to follow. But we can talk about that separately. 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:13.437 wisdom is to apply our knowledge, then to administer, 00:05:09.427 --> 00:05:11.220 So they need our strength. 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:15.379 They need our faith. And then he talks about understanding the 00:05:13.587 --> 00:05:23.068 teach, fearlessly organize, and lead would be taking the things 00:05:15.446 --> 00:05:19.471 power and peace of the temple endowment. And so I put that I 00:05:19.538 --> 00:05:23.697 moved that under faith. Faith is a huge thing all by itself, I 00:05:23.219 --> 00:05:32.248 that we know how to do, or the things that we know something 00:05:23.764 --> 00:05:28.125 was listening to another podcast the other day. Because I think I 00:05:28.192 --> 00:05:31.948 was watching it on YouTube, I don't remember, it doesn't 00:05:32.015 --> 00:05:36.107 matter. I was watching something the other day, and they were 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:41.429 about and applying them whether it's in our callings, or our 00:05:36.175 --> 00:05:40.401 talking about faith as a force. And I kind of want to look into 00:05:40.468 --> 00:05:44.426 that some more, I think that would be really cool. So faith 00:05:41.579 --> 00:05:51.211 communities or our homes, which he also talks about, towards the 00:05:44.493 --> 00:05:48.652 is a bigger thing, a big enough thing to talk about by itself, 00:05:48.719 --> 00:05:52.476 but then understanding the power and peace of the temple 00:05:51.361 --> 00:06:00.240 end of his talk, taking our rightful place within our homes 00:05:52.543 --> 00:05:56.702 endowment. We could talk about that for a long time. So here's 00:05:56.769 --> 00:06:00.392 faith itself, talking about faith as a force, and then 00:06:00.391 --> 00:06:09.722 or communities and the kingdom of God. We can use these things 00:06:00.459 --> 00:06:04.350 understanding the power and peace of the temple endowment. 00:06:04.350 --> 00:06:07.673 And then we get into listening to the Spirit, he talks a lot 00:06:07.728 --> 00:06:10.940 about he says it two or three different times speak up and 00:06:09.872 --> 00:06:19.504 that we know how to do and apply them to the things that we know 00:06:10.996 --> 00:06:13.931 speak out. And then he talks about receiving personal 00:06:13.986 --> 00:06:17.476 revelation and conversion. And I think, especially for those of 00:06:17.531 --> 00:06:21.131 us with strong personalities, we get loud, I'm pretty sure I said 00:06:19.654 --> 00:06:27.330 about. So that's why these are lumped under wisdom. 00:06:21.186 --> 00:06:24.510 that already. Actually, we get loud, we get passionate about 00:06:24.565 --> 00:06:27.390 things. And sometimes that comes off the wrong way. 00:06:27.390 --> 00:06:31.248 So I put this under listening to the Spirit, because it's 00:06:31.316 --> 00:06:34.835 important for us with our loud voices and our strong 00:06:34.903 --> 00:06:39.100 personalities to make sure that we are saying the right things 00:06:39.168 --> 00:06:43.500 at the right time, in the right way. And we do that by listening 00:06:43.567 --> 00:06:47.764 to the Spirit. But but there are things that we can work on as 00:06:47.832 --> 00:06:52.029 well, besides just questioning ourselves on when we should say 00:06:52.096 --> 00:06:56.428 something and when we shouldn't say something we can work on our 00:06:56.496 --> 00:06:59.881 articulate notice. In the meantime, I looked it up 00:06:59.948 --> 00:07:03.265 yesterday, it's pretty interesting. I thought the 00:07:03.333 --> 00:07:07.530 definition was great. So we'll look at that a little bit more. 00:07:07.530 --> 00:07:11.561 And then speaking of speaking out and speaking with the 00:07:11.634 --> 00:07:16.325 authority of God, and I, I love that he he gave us the he didn't 00:07:16.398 --> 00:07:20.649 give it to us. He pointed out President Nelson pointed out 00:07:20.723 --> 00:07:25.120 that we have the ability, the capability to be able to speak 00:07:25.194 --> 00:07:29.664 with the authority of God. And we do that as we follow and we 00:07:29.738 --> 00:07:34.429 listened to the Spirit. And then he talked about speaking up and 00:07:34.502 --> 00:07:38.900 speaking out in Warden state councils, and how they need our 00:07:38.973 --> 00:07:43.077 impressions, insights and inspiration. Not all of us are 00:07:43.151 --> 00:07:47.475 going to be in Ward and State Council. I am not in Ward and 00:07:47.548 --> 00:07:51.873 say counsel, I've been there before. And so this part isn't 00:07:51.946 --> 00:07:56.344 for me today. But someday, I might be in that meeting again. 00:07:56.417 --> 00:08:00.961 And you might be in that meeting now. And we should talk about 00:08:01.035 --> 00:08:05.506 our callings and how listening to the spirit can direct us in 00:08:05.579 --> 00:08:10.050 receiving revelation for our calling to. So we'll, we'll look 00:08:10.123 --> 00:08:10.710 at that. 00:08:10.710 --> 00:08:14.943 And then the last the last one. The last topic I included in 00:08:15.013 --> 00:08:19.458 here was grit. I love that word. Because it just makes me think 00:08:19.529 --> 00:08:23.691 like, you're going to take a toothbrush and you're going to 00:08:23.762 --> 00:08:28.136 scrub the grout and you're going to do it with your elbow like 00:08:28.207 --> 00:08:32.228 this is putting in the elbow grease, right? Your grit. So 00:08:32.299 --> 00:08:36.320 this is your conviction, becoming courageous defenders of 00:08:36.391 --> 00:08:40.906 families in the synthetic world and then protecting children and 00:08:40.977 --> 00:08:44.998 families. This is these are the it makes me think of that 00:08:45.069 --> 00:08:49.584 picture. I'm sure you guys have probably seen it. The picture of 00:08:49.655 --> 00:08:53.747 the of the woman holding the shield, or she's like wearing 00:08:53.818 --> 00:08:57.910 the shield on her back. And there are arrows in the shield 00:08:57.980 --> 00:09:02.213 on her back and she's protecting her child from all of those 00:09:02.284 --> 00:09:06.658 arrows, her child appears to be completely oblivious, and it's 00:09:06.729 --> 00:09:10.680 just kind of playing with something in front of her. And 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:14.560 the child's mother is protecting, protecting them from 00:09:14.631 --> 00:09:16.889 all of those fiery darts, right? 00:09:16.889 --> 00:09:20.951 So this is the grit is the we need your conviction that you 00:09:21.020 --> 00:09:25.014 know what is right and you're going to stand up for it. We 00:09:25.083 --> 00:09:29.352 need your courageous defense, you're going to defend the truth 00:09:29.421 --> 00:09:33.759 and then making sure that you're using your conviction and your 00:09:33.828 --> 00:09:38.166 courage to protect your children and your family. Okay, so I've 00:09:38.235 --> 00:09:42.022 split them up into seven different categories. Now what 00:09:42.091 --> 00:09:46.085 do we do with these seven different categories? We started 00:09:46.154 --> 00:09:50.148 off talking by stillness and it's kind of led us down this 00:09:50.216 --> 00:09:54.348 path. So I think we'll just continue down this path. I don't 00:09:54.417 --> 00:09:58.342 know if we'll start with character. I don't know if we'll 00:09:58.411 --> 00:10:02.680 start with strength. We might start with grit I'm not sure yet 00:10:02.749 --> 00:10:06.812 where to start. What's your opinion? Tell me. So far, there 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:10.805 are very many of us, which is fine. But tell me where you 00:10:10.874 --> 00:10:14.937 think we should start? What should we talk about first, and 00:10:15.006 --> 00:10:18.724 let's work on these things together so that our strong 00:10:18.793 --> 00:10:23.062 personalities, we can harness our strong personalities and use 00:10:23.131 --> 00:10:26.643 them for good. It's a superpower. So we can use our 00:10:26.712 --> 00:10:30.844 powers for good or for not so good. Let's use our powers for 00:10:30.912 --> 00:10:34.769 good. Tell me what you think. And we'll see where we go. 00:10:34.769 --> 00:10:38.238 I appreciate your time you guys are really appreciate that you 00:10:38.294 --> 00:10:41.708 come here and you watch or you listen. And I hope that you're 00:10:41.763 --> 00:10:45.233 getting something out of it. I know that I'm getting something 00:10:45.289 --> 00:10:48.702 out of it. I look forward to the study time that I put in for 00:10:48.758 --> 00:10:52.116 each one of these episodes, and I'm having fun with it. So I 00:10:52.172 --> 00:10:55.474 appreciate you taking the time to be here with me and let's 00:10:55.530 --> 00:10:58.440 let's learn how to do this together. Thanks so much.