In the Teach a Friend Activity, we were asked to pick something we learned and share it with a friend and seeing as friends are hard to come by because it has not been that long since I moved here, I taught my mom about Principle One. Principle One is exercising faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as a principle of both action and power.
After we said a prayer to invite the Spirit into our lesson and as we discussed the principle, Mom said that praying before things like lessons or classes helped her to be more in tune with the Spirit and she can see things more clearly from an eternal perspective.
I summarized a scripture on exercising faith and that scripture was Doctrine and Covenants 6:36, which basically says that it is by faith and acting in faith that we become courageous. I went on to add that exercising faith is using discernment to make a choice and we come to know if the choice is good or bad by how it makes us feel and how it prompts us to behave. Our experience of learning the difference between proper and improper behavior comes because we choose to exercise faith and applied knowledge to use the gift of agency that God has given us.
To teach what we know, we must first learn to know it and to learn, we must be willing to accept that we will eventually have to teach what we learn in order to keep the knowledge in practice and also learn how to better apply it.
We also discussed the standards in the Honor Code and Mom said that it is to remind us that we need to be casual, but reverent.
I then read the following quote from Pres. Faust about Satan's most appealing lines and placing emphasis on the "it doesn't hurt anyone else" spiel, I said that nothing of a wicked nature can be done without hurting someone else, as we CAN cause hurt to ourselves and Mom said that was so true.
As a concluding thought, I shared my observation that it is IMPOSSIBLE to engage in a bad behavior and/or activity without hurting a person, as we are also people and when the Spirit leaves us, we come to be in pain when we feel the absence of it. It may take time for us to feel the absence of the Spirit when we lose it, but we will eventually feel it and also the pain of loss.
By making correct choices, however, we won't need to go through the grieving process that comes when the Spirit is lost and we acknowledge that it is lost by our own behaviors. I ended by saying that it is by our own choice and acting in faith that we can utilize the Atonement to get the Spirit back into our lives and our hearts where it belongs. Without the Spirit, we are but a shell of what we can be.
My comment about letting the Spirit back into our lives made Mom ask why we couldn't live the way we were supposed to in the first place so we wouldn't have to let it back in? Mom also asked why can't our behavior be as such that the Spirit would always be there and never leave?
I also had to do a Learning Survey and it was very interesting to explain what I have learned.
I started the work at approximately 6:05 and ended at approximately 6:50.
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