WMRU Week 30

Admin Stuff

Deadline for projects is Saturday

I'm scoring about 15 projects a day

Admin Stuff

Not all midterms entered (work in progress)

Passing 225, A is 400 (145 and 320 for N-A DEs)--this is total points, not just project points

Guesses for project totals?

Gratitude

“Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.”

--Pravin Agarwal

One Minute of Light

National Pretzel Day

Dedication of Germany

Scripture

Amidst the ringing of church bells this morning and the singing of birds in this, the forest which Thou hast created, music fills our souls and gratitude fills our hearts as we humbly acknowledge before Thee that Thou art our Father, that with Thee all things are possible, and that Thy gospel has been restored upon the earth.

Let the word go forth from this place, Heavenly Father. In Thy due time grant that many hundreds may seek membership in Thy church, and that Thy children whom Thou hast preserved may indeed be saved in the celestial kingdom of God.

Freedom in every land

“God bless you all. This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land."

--Sir Winston Churchill, May 8, 1945

Quotation

A Kind Word

“[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.”

--Georgette Heyer, Sylvester

Moment of Light

National Prime Rib Day

Isaiah 1:25-27

Scripture

25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Liberty and Justice

Quotation

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.

--Thomas Jefferson

More gratitude give me

“The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.”

--Steve Maraboli

One Minute of Light

National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

National Kindergarten Day

National Tea Day

D&C 71:1

1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto you my servants Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, that the time has verily come that it is necessary and expedient in me that you should open your mouths in proclaiming my gospel, the things of the kingdom, expounding the mysteries thereof out of the scriptures, according to that portion of Spirit and power which shall be given unto you, even as I will.

Scripture

Liberty and Responsibility

Quotation

"Joseph Smith...never told me but the one story, and that was that he found [the Book of Mormon] engraved upon gold plates in a hill near Palmyra, New York, and that an angel had appeared to him and directed him where to find it; and I have never, to you or any one else, told but the one story, and that I now repeat to you."

--Sidney Rigdon

Our Holidays

Earth Day

National Jelly Bean Day

Today's Holiday (Thanks, Alaina)

Gratitude

“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”

--Hannah Whitall Smith

One Minute of Light

D&C 135:5 (Ether 12:36)

5 And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord that he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that they might have charity. And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: If they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee, thou hast been faithful; wherefore thy garments shall be made clean. And because thou hast seen thy weakness, thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.

Scripture

Justice

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

--John Adams

Quotation