Bread.

saw this on pinterest today

then saw this on lds.org

after an uplifting and inspirational stake conference (primary topic: happiness and peace in righteous doing. no joke.), i have resolved to be better at getting my rda. and to be happier.

note: bill had the privilege of speaking in stake conference and did a superb job. he only cried 3, maybe 4 times. he asked me after if he does the ugly cry like me. nope, i told him, i've only seen a few people in my lifetime that cry as ugly as i do, and he isn't one of them.

keeping this good scripture in mind:

"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." (Philippians 4:11)

in the past couple of months i have discovered how to more effectively use my phone's gospel library app to link, tag, and annotate. best. tool. ever. i used to be one of those people who believed you should always carry around your actual scriptures, name stamped clearly on the front cover, various colors of highlighters for marking in your church bag, pen for oh-so-brief annotating in the minimal margins... for some reason it seemed to mean that i was more obedient (i certainly wouldn't want anyone thinking i was texting or checking fb in church!). 

that has all changed. i am now an advocate for smarty phones. if someone asks me if they are worth it, i shout, "yes!" i have found that i get carried away in study (sometimes in the middle of a talk... or a class at church... i'm trying to curb that a little) because i have every resource i need at my fingertips. if someone quotes from a conference talk, i can quickly locate the talk, highlight a meaningful passage, link it to a correlating scripture, annotate who shared it when and where, tag it under a topic to be easily located at a future needed moment... etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. i've shared my excitement while visiting teaching, i've shared while cutting hair, i've shared with billy-my-hero who thinks i'm amazing.

and i'm not tech-savvy. there is probably a lot more that can be done.

be happy today!