Happy Valentine's Day 2020

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

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Isn't it a wonderful feeling to know it is Valentine's Day today? It might be a wonderful feeling to some people or not. What are you doing today to celebrate Valentine's Day? Do you have at least one most favourite memory of celebrating Valentine's Day in the past years?

My husband and I didn't do extra special for celebrating Valentine's Day this day. I gave him a small red teddy bear; and four packs of sour patch kids that shaped loved hearts and it has cute sayings on it. He's currently working and here I am at home. 

Over the past years since 2004, I've always reflected Valentine's Day as another year since I have been baptised into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Although I have learned to appreciate Valentine's Day a bit more since I've met and known my husband. 

In 2018; I was able to celebrate Valentine's Day early with my husband. We celebrate it on my birthday. We both were able to attend two sessions in Oquirrh Mountain Temple, followed by going to attend a session in Salt Lake City Temple, followed by going to a buffet for dinner and dessert, and he surprised me with roses after the buffet dinner. I remembered doing my best to keep the roses alive until it was approaching closer for me to leave Utah, and I remembered trying to dry the roses so I can take it back to Brisbane Australia with me for memories. 

When I got back to Brisbane, I had to claim the roses for customs. Otherwises if I didn't say anything, I would have gotten over $10,000 fine. I remembered going through customs and someone checked my luggage, and you could see how upset I was as the individual checking my luggage and the dried rose petals feel the ground.

Before my husband left Utah, I gave him a Valentine's card. In 2019; I got a Valentine's card from my husband. This year; my husband got me three roses on last Saturday, and he has been considering to get me a bike. It truly doesn't matter what I get for Valentine's Day, as long as my husband still loves me, cares about me, supports me and still appreciate everything that I do for him, I am totally okay with receiving nothing for Valentine's Day.

I'm truly grateful for having my husband as a Valentine and I'm grateful for being a Valentine for my husband for the past few years and I know that we both are keen and looking forward to even more years to come. He's my for all time and eternity Valentine, and I'm his all time and eternity Valentine. I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day.

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Love Takes Time} Part Two

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

This post is based on October 1975 General Conference talk and it is called, "Love Takes Time" by Marvin J. Ashton. This is part two. I have enjoyed reading the talk, I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk and I hope you will learn something new. 

Marvin mentioned, " .... When were you last fed by a family member or friend? When were you last given nourishment for growth and ideas, plans, sorting of the day, sharing of fun, recreation, sorrow, anxiety, concern, and meditation? These ingredients can only be shared by someone who loves and cares. Have you ever gone to extend sympathy and comfort in moments of death and trial, only to come away fed by the faith and trust of the loving bereaved?

Certainly the best way for us to show our love in keeping and feeding is by taking the time to prove it hour by hour and day by day. Our expressions of love and comfort are empty if our actions don’t match. God loves us to continue. Our neighbors and families love us if we will but follow through with sustaining support and self-sharing. True love is as eternal as life itself. Who is to say the joys of eternity are not wrapped up in continuous feeding, keeping, and caring? We need not weary in well-doing when we understand God’s purposes and his children.

"The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined
to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True
love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must
be continuing to be real. Love takes time." - Marvin J. Ashton.

... The opportunities for showing love for God through the home, neighborhood, mission field, community, and family are never-ending. Some of us are inclined to terminate our love processes in the family when a member disappoints, rebels, or becomes lost. Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

Love of God takes time. Love of family takes time. Love of country takes time. Love of neighbor takes time. Love of companion takes time. Love in courtship takes time. Love of self takes time. .. Let us resolve to take the time to give of ourselves in putting love into appropriate action and performance. God, too, needs more than words. He is made happy by our feeding, keeping, and continuing.

... May we take the time to show our families, our friends, the stranger, our prophet, and our God that our declarations of love are backed up by performance by our daily lives, that we know for love to be acceptable

to God and man it must be continuing and originate from within. ... God help us to take the time to enjoy the blessings of feeding, keeping, and caring. ..."

If you would like to read the talk either now or in your own time, here's the link below. 

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1975/10/love-takes-time

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How do we show our love towards our relationship?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately four to seven minutes to read from start to finish.

Relationships that I would be referring throughout this post is same sex couples, boyfriend and girlfriend, engaged couples, and married couples. Throughout this post whenever I will be mentioning "loved one," I would be referring to those relationships that I have mentioned previously. 

I would like to ask the following questions and you may would like to ask yourself and answer those questions either now or in your own time. How committed are you to make your relationship to work out for the best? Do you enjoy spending some quality time with your loved one? How often do you spend some quality time with your loved one?

Do you mention "I love you" to your loved whenever you get the chance? How often do you say "I love you" to your loved one? Have you ever express concerns to your loved one? If so, how often do you express them?

How often do you compliment your loved one? Do you compliment him or her whenever you get the chance?

How often do your express your trust with your loved one? Are you being honest to him or her often? 

How often do you express to your loved one that you care about him or her? Does he or she knows that you care about him or her? Do you show support towards your loved one? If so, how often do you show that to your loved one?

Who is making the effort and time to make the relationship to work? How long have you been in the relationship for? What have you learned during the relationship so far? How often do you contact your loved one? How often do you listen to your loved one without interrupting what he or she is talking? 

"Some love lasts a lifetime."

Throughout our lives, we always do our best whatever we think is best for our relationship whether it is to making sure that your loved one is constantly feeling loved, feeling appreciated and so on. We can always show our loved one that we do care about him or her, finding ways to understand each other's needs, finding ways to understand each other's wants, finding ways to getting to know each other, showing ways of how we can support one another, loving each other, trusting each other, helping each other to achieve short-term goals, helping each other to achieve long-term goals, speaking kind words to each other, and so on. 

I hope you will always remember that relationships isn't suppose to be 100% easy. If you're very serious in your current relationship, make sure that you are able to prove it and show it.

All relationships should consist of sharing compliments to each other, instead of complaining to each other.

All relationships should consist of speaking kind words to each other, instead of saying hurtful words.

All relationships should consist of supporting each other, even when you disagree with their decision.

All relationships should consist of trusting each other, sometimes it can be difficult to believe in someone. 

All relationships should consist of setting realistic short-term and long-term goals, sky's the limit. Sometimes, we see relationships that has someone comes from a different culture background and the language barrier can be tricky and difficult to understand at times. 

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Heavenly Father Loves You

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

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Have you ever experience doubts for Heavenly Father's love for you? Do you know that Heavenly Father loves you?

I know that Heavenly Father loves you and he truly does. Think about it. I know that he truly loves you even when you may or may not feel his love time to time, and even during difficult times, he still loves you. I know that he loves all of his children including you.

I know that Heavenly Father is constantly happy and cheering you for being happy and cheerful. Heavenly Father constantly loves everyone for doing their best to be successful in life.

I know that Heavenly Father loves seeing all of his children making progress at different stages throughout their daily lives. I know that he loves seeing all of his children using their agency to make their own choices. I know that when he sees his children down and upset, he always strives his best to insure them that he is there with them and allow them to feel peace, happiness and comfort again.

I love what the Image says and if you can not see the Image above, it says the following;
"Do you suppose it matters to our Heavenly Father whether your makeup, clothes, hair, and nails are perfect? Do you think he wants you to worry or get depressed if some un-friend or un-follow you on Facebook or Twitter? Do you think outward attractiveness, your dress size, or popularity make the slightest difference in your worth to the One who created the universe?

HE LOVES YOU not only for who you are this very day but also for the person of glory and light you have the potential & the desire to become. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf."

I would like to also encourage you to think about how you can apply what the Image says to your daily life.

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Love Takes Time} Part One

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately four to seven minutes to read from start to finish.

I would like to ask you the following two questions, you may or may not ask yourself and answer the following questions either now or in your own time. What is your definition on true love? Do you believe that love takes time?

This post is based on October 1975 General Conference talk and it is called, "Love Takes Time" by Marvin J. Ashton. This is part one. I have enjoyed reading the talk, I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk and I hope you will learn something new. 

Marvin have mentioned the following; "True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time. Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion, or lust are mistaken for love. How hollow, how empty if our love is no deeper than the arousal of momentary feeling or the expression in words of what is no more lasting than the time it takes to speak them.

A group of college students recently indicated to me their least favorite expression to come from us as the older set is, “If there is ever anything I can do to help you, please let me know.” They, as do others, much prefer actions over conversation. We must at regular and appropriate intervals speak and reassure others of our love and the long time it takes to prove it by our actions. Real love does take time.

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and
know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin.

.. Love demands action if it is to be continuing. Love is a process. Love is not a declaration. Love is not an announcement. Love is not a passing fancy. Love is not an expediency. Love is not a convenience. From another boy a few years older, old enough to be confined in a state penitentiary a few hundred miles from here, we can learn more about the process of love. In his moving letter, just received within the past few days, he makes an effort to analyze what led to his present situation and all of the accompanying agonies.

He writes, “My dad never seemed to love me and yet he made big deals of saying ‘I love you’ and kissing and all, but I learned that ‘I love you’ meant you didn’t have to do anything. I mean we were never forced to do chores regularly, given no morals, spiritual training at all. To this very day I don’t know what principles my parents stand for.” From this friend, whom I have never met, may I share again the one phrase, “‘I love you’ meant you didn’t have to do anything.” I refer to him as a friend because he has given me his helpful thoughts and I share these comments with you on this occasion hoping they might be helpful to you too.

From the father’s viewpoint can’t he be credited with feeding and keeping?  Perhaps he had kept the family adequately stocked with food supplies. Also, hadn’t his son been the beneficiary of having a roof over his head, protected from the elements day and night over the years? In responding, I would point out to this mother and father and others that feeding is more than providing food. No man can effectively live by bread alone. Feeding is the providing by love adequate nourishment for the entire man, physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. Keeping is a process of care, consideration, and kindness appropriately blended with discipline, example, and concern. Keeping is more than providing four walls and a roof. All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home."

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