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On the Write Track

One of the best ways to clarify your plans and ideas is to write them down. Writing things down will not only help you stay organized, but it will help you be more effective. Here are just a few ways writing down your plans and ideas can help:

Writing an idea will help you express it more clearly to others.

Writing your plans will help you stay on track.

Writing something down will help you remember it.

Writing a plan provides a record of the plan.

Writing a thought helps you clarify it in your own mind and can help you come up with new ideas.

It Happened in October

October 21, 1855: The first branch in Germany was organized in Dresden.

October 12, 1892: The Relief Society filed its articles of incorporation. The organization was then known as the National Women’s Relief Societies until 1945, when the name was changed to Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

October 3, 1924: General conference was broadcast for the first time on a Church-owned radio station.

October 11, 1986: About 300,000 young women participated in the first worldwide Young Women activity. From sites all over the world, they released into the air helium-filled balloons with personal messages in them.

Test Your LDS I.Q.

You’ve probably heard these scriptural phrases before, but do you know who said them? Draw lines to match these scriptural quotes with the prophets who spoke them. Check the references to see if you came up with the right answers.

“Wickedness never was happiness.”		Joseph Smith (See D&C 76:22.)
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.”		Nephi, son of Lehi (See 1 Ne. 3:7.)
“Put on the whole armour of God.”		David (See Ps. 23:1.)
“I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded.”		Moroni (See Moro. 10:5.)
“By the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.”		Alma the Younger (See Alma 41:10.)
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”		Lehi (See 2 Ne. 2:25.)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.”		Isaiah (See Isa. 9:6.)
“This is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!”		The Apostle Paul (See Eph. 6:11.)
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”		John the Beloved (See John 3:16.)
“Men are, that they might have joy.”		Moses (See Gen. 1:1.)

In a Word

Telestial: When the Apostle Paul wrote of the three degrees of glory in the Bible, he mentioned the celestial and terrestrial by name, comparing their glories to that of the sun and the moon (see 1 Cor. 15:40–41). But when he talked of the glory of the stars, he did not mention a name associated with this glory. The word telestial is found in the scriptures only in the Doctrine and Covenants (see D&C 76:88, 98, 109; D&C 88:21). It is the name for the lowest degree of glory. Those who are wicked and unrepentant and commit serious sins like murder will live in the telestial kingdom.

Photograph by Craig Dimond

Illustration by Nadine B. Burton, photograph by PhotoSpin, photograph by Jed Clark

Painting by Arnold Friberg, illustrated by Gary Kapp, painting by Tom Lovell, painting by Gary Kapp, painting by Arnold Friberg, illustrated by Ted Henninger, illustrated by Paul Mann, illustrated by Paul Mann, illustrated by Robert T. Barrett

Sculptures by Shauna Mooney Kawasaki