Lately I’ve been trying to think of some analogies. Here’s a couple I’ve thought of and I’m hoping you can add some more…
1. Sin is like a mosquito bite.
Lately I’ve been trying to think of some analogies. Here’s a couple I’ve thought of and I’m hoping you can add some more…
1. Sin is like a mosquito bite.
Summer is officially upon us tomorrow (June 21st), and with it comes all the glorious benefits of warm weather (except for you saints in Alaska…sorry). The questions is often asked about how we can be modest wearing swimsuits when we go out swimming or boating or being in the water. We at LDSWHY recommend that we all go back to the old fashion swimsuits that made us modest but not actually able to swim very well:
We have both talked with teenagers who felt completely broken up inside as their parents were going through a divorce. For example, we’re thinking a young woman who felt that the divorce was her fault, a young woman who knew it wasn’t her fault, but she really missed her dad, and a young man who was torn between living with his mother and father.
President Boyd K. Packer taught the following powerful idea: “True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior” (Boyd K. Packer, “Do Not Fear,” Ensign, May 2004, 77).
At LDSWHY one of our goals it to try to help us understand the doctrines (or eternal truths) of the gospel of Jesus Christ so that we can better live gospel principles and act the way God would have us act . Right now we are beginning work on a project that helps explain some of the doctrines of the plan of salvation, such as “What will happen during the millennium” and “What is agency” and “What are the effects of the fall of Adam and Eve?” As part of this project, we are interested in some of your questions connected to the doctrines of the gospel and the plan of salvation. Your responses will help us know what doctrinal questions to focus on so we can make sure we are hitting the most common questions.
First of all, thank you to all of you who commented/Facebooked, etc. on this entry. I couldn’t believe how many comments there were. Originally I had planned to give away two CDs; thanks to Deseret Book we’ll be giving away five. Those five were randomly selected from the comments on the blog and Facebook page.
Several years ago I starting cutting my own hair. It works well—usually. But one afternoon when the razor first touched my hair, I felt something uncomfortable, and heard a loud buzzing noise. It only took a half second for me to realize that something was wrong—I had forgotten to put on the attachment, and had created a bald spot in my head!

The Destinies of Nations
Today is the day we honor the women in our lives, specifically our own mothers who gave us life, who nurtured and raised and fed and clothed us, who taught and tutored and showed us, who comforted and counseled and consoled us. Above all, who loved us. To all the mothers out there, we wish you a happy Mothers’ day, and cannot thank you enough for being givers of life.
If you’re a seminary student you know how important it is to learn scripture mastery verses. These are 100 powerful verses (25 each year of seminary). They are full of powerful phrases like “Wickedness never was happiness” and “I will go and do the things which that Lord hath commanded.”
They also contain important doctrinal teachings that you can use for sharing the gospel. They answer questions like, “Why do we do baptisms for the dead?” (1 Corinthians 15:29) and “Why should I be baptized?” (John 3:5). They tell us how to receive revelation (D&C 8:2-3) and show us what to do when we are in sticky situations (Genesis 39:9).

"Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee . . . "
One of the great blessings in the entire gospel is that through the atonement of Jesus Christ we can be forgiven of sins and mistakes in our lives. The scriptures repeatedly testify of this truth: “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more” (D&C 58:42). “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18). The modern prophets testify: “Through the Atonement, you can receive forgiveness and be cleansed from your sins when you repent” (“Repentance,” For the Strength of Youth: Fulfilling Our Duty to God, 29).