- “September 20th, 1994 – Tuesday….Today was a learning experience. I woke up feeling super empty. I felt homesick, I felt like crying & very weird & confused. After 2 ½ months of feeling the Spirit I know when it isn’t with me. And this morning it wasn’t. I tried to push it back & just get to work. We visited a few members and gave a charla for New Members to a young girl. It went well. We came home & on the way home Elder Salazar mentioned that he felt the same way (empty, no enthusiasm). We got into the house & it was super strong. I could feel it was Satan. So we prayed and cast Satan out of our presence. We ate at the Mamitas, then went & visited some inactives (we invited them to church). We then ran into an old man who had been walking since morning looking for his son. His son never visited him so he took a cab to a part of Puyo, and then walked since morning. We bought him a soda & sat him down in the shade. We walked him until we found out where his son lived. His grandson came & got him. I felt so good serving this man. I felt like a peculiar person because of taking time to serve him. A lot of people looked at us like we were wasting our time but we weren’t. We were serving this helpless old man who could barely walk. The poor man was tired & it was hot. I wanted to carry him but figured that would be a little uncomfortable for us both. After serving this man I had the Spirit back with me in a snap. I’ve learned that Service will bring the true love of Christ at any time!”- Missionary Journal of Clinton Brown
- Jacob 2:35…Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you. And because of the strictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.
- “I love the kind of hugs where you can physically feel the sadness leaving your body.” Charlie Brown
- Revelation 12:11…And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.
- “Comparison is the thief of joy,” attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt
- “I hope you always have the courage to keep loving yourself no matter how many times the world breaks your heart.” Dhiman