Paisley: Hey everybody, here we are again. And I've talked about
being still a lot this month, and I think I'm ready to move
on. So we may not be talking about being still for the rest
of June. Instead, we might be talking about how to harness our
strong personalities. I don't know, we'll see. Let's see how
this goes.
What I did this time is I went through President Nelson's talk,
a plea to my sisters and one that we just talked about the
other day. And I took, I took out all of the things I pulled
out, I didn't take them out, I pulled out all of the things
that he tells us, they need us with our strong personalities.
So I'm going to call this episode we are needed us and our
strong personalities. And I want to share with you the things
that I was able to find.
So I've grouped them into seven different categories, all of
which he mentions, and then all of the things that all the other
things that he mentioned, I grouped into one of those seven
things. So let me show you how this works, or what I did.
Okay, so the first one is character, he said that they
need our love, our happiness, and our virtue. All of those are
characteristics. Those are all something that we build into our
character.
The second category is vision. They need our vision, strong
women with vision, the intuition, he mentioned
intuition. And he mentioned that as distinct characteristics, and
intuition that have been given to women as gifts from God. So I
listed intuition on here. We talked about character already.
And then I also listed gifts from God, because I think it
would be fun to look into gifts of the Spirit, and how those
gifts of the Spirit how we can use those and building our
character and sharing our vision. And then I also listed
gift of discernment, because that went, that is one that he
specifically calls out.
The next. The next category is wisdom. He said that, that we
need women who can administer, teach, fearlessly organize. And
then the lead, he said, I lumped these ones into leadership,
plan, direct executive ability and make important things
happen. And just to clarify a little bit that make important
things happen. He actually said, I've taken some liberties on
this one, he actually said, make important things happen by their
faith. But faith is a separate category. So I left it over
there. And I put this one here, because it's more tactical,
under leading to lead is to plan direct exercise executive
ability to be able to make important things happen. And I
listed all four of these main categories under wisdom, once I
heard once a long time ago, and I don't remember, I don't
remember where it came from. It could be an old Chinese proverb,
The next category is strength. They need our strength and
specifically strengthen children and families. And he said to
strengthen he said to protect and strengthen I moved the
I don't know, it could just be something that somebody said.
Protect to a different category. But he said to protect and
strengthen children and families in a sin sick world. Be
But they said that, to know something is to have knowledge
courageous defenders of families in a sensitive world. So to
strengthen our children and to strengthen our families. I would
of it. But to have wisdom is to apply that knowledge. So
love to kind of dive in and get more specific about what some of
the things are that we need to do to help strengthen our
thinking about it that way, if wisdom is to imply art apply, if
children. I think it's more than just teaching. I think It's a
combination of teaching, and leading in a way that our
children want to follow. But we can talk about that separately.
wisdom is to apply our knowledge, then to administer,
So they need our strength.
They need our faith. And then he talks about understanding the
teach, fearlessly organize, and lead would be taking the things
power and peace of the temple endowment. And so I put that I
moved that under faith. Faith is a huge thing all by itself, I
that we know how to do, or the things that we know something
was listening to another podcast the other day. Because I think I
was watching it on YouTube, I don't remember, it doesn't
matter. I was watching something the other day, and they were
about and applying them whether it's in our callings, or our
talking about faith as a force. And I kind of want to look into
that some more, I think that would be really cool. So faith
communities or our homes, which he also talks about, towards the
is a bigger thing, a big enough thing to talk about by itself,
but then understanding the power and peace of the temple
end of his talk, taking our rightful place within our homes
endowment. We could talk about that for a long time. So here's
faith itself, talking about faith as a force, and then
or communities and the kingdom of God. We can use these things
understanding the power and peace of the temple endowment.
And then we get into listening to the Spirit, he talks a lot
about he says it two or three different times speak up and
that we know how to do and apply them to the things that we know
speak out. And then he talks about receiving personal
revelation and conversion. And I think, especially for those of
us with strong personalities, we get loud, I'm pretty sure I said
about. So that's why these are lumped under wisdom.
that already. Actually, we get loud, we get passionate about
things. And sometimes that comes off the wrong way.
So I put this under listening to the Spirit, because it's
important for us with our loud voices and our strong
personalities to make sure that we are saying the right things
at the right time, in the right way. And we do that by listening
to the Spirit. But but there are things that we can work on as
well, besides just questioning ourselves on when we should say
something and when we shouldn't say something we can work on our
articulate notice. In the meantime, I looked it up
yesterday, it's pretty interesting. I thought the
definition was great. So we'll look at that a little bit more.
And then speaking of speaking out and speaking with the
authority of God, and I, I love that he he gave us the he didn't
give it to us. He pointed out President Nelson pointed out
that we have the ability, the capability to be able to speak
with the authority of God. And we do that as we follow and we
listened to the Spirit. And then he talked about speaking up and
speaking out in Warden state councils, and how they need our
impressions, insights and inspiration. Not all of us are
going to be in Ward and State Council. I am not in Ward and
say counsel, I've been there before. And so this part isn't
for me today. But someday, I might be in that meeting again.
And you might be in that meeting now. And we should talk about
our callings and how listening to the spirit can direct us in
receiving revelation for our calling to. So we'll, we'll look
at that.
And then the last the last one. The last topic I included in
here was grit. I love that word. Because it just makes me think
like, you're going to take a toothbrush and you're going to
scrub the grout and you're going to do it with your elbow like
this is putting in the elbow grease, right? Your grit. So
this is your conviction, becoming courageous defenders of
families in the synthetic world and then protecting children and
families. This is these are the it makes me think of that
picture. I'm sure you guys have probably seen it. The picture of
the of the woman holding the shield, or she's like wearing
the shield on her back. And there are arrows in the shield
on her back and she's protecting her child from all of those
arrows, her child appears to be completely oblivious, and it's
just kind of playing with something in front of her. And
the child's mother is protecting, protecting them from
all of those fiery darts, right?
So this is the grit is the we need your conviction that you
know what is right and you're going to stand up for it. We
need your courageous defense, you're going to defend the truth
and then making sure that you're using your conviction and your
courage to protect your children and your family. Okay, so I've
split them up into seven different categories. Now what
do we do with these seven different categories? We started
off talking by stillness and it's kind of led us down this
path. So I think we'll just continue down this path. I don't
know if we'll start with character. I don't know if we'll
start with strength. We might start with grit I'm not sure yet
where to start. What's your opinion? Tell me. So far, there
are very many of us, which is fine. But tell me where you
think we should start? What should we talk about first, and
let's work on these things together so that our strong
personalities, we can harness our strong personalities and use
them for good. It's a superpower. So we can use our
powers for good or for not so good. Let's use our powers for
good. Tell me what you think. And we'll see where we go.
I appreciate your time you guys are really appreciate that you
come here and you watch or you listen. And I hope that you're
getting something out of it. I know that I'm getting something
out of it. I look forward to the study time that I put in for
each one of these episodes, and I'm having fun with it. So I
appreciate you taking the time to be here with me and let's
let's learn how to do this together. Thanks so much.