{"id":21010,"date":"2021-09-10T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=21010"},"modified":"2024-09-28T08:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T14:33:16","slug":"i-cant-keep-up-but-i-am-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/i-cant-keep-up-but-i-am-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"I can’t keep up, but I am trying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I find our 97-year-old prophet’s pace to be really fast. I try to keep up on all the handbook changes and policy updates. I stopped following the church Instagram account because it made me feel overwhelmed sometimes. I keep lists of President Nelson’s invitations to study this and study that. I make efforts to follow him, but the challenge he gave to young adults to study over 2,200 references about Jesus Christ felt especially daunting. Besides, I was not his target audience for this challenge, so it didn’t apply to me, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my stake Primary presidency, we are each working on gaining a testimony of the Children and Youth program, where children make goals in four different areas: Spiritual, Intellectual, Physical, and Social. According to my first counselor, Anne, these areas spell “SIPS,” as in sips of living water as we work to hear the Savior’s voice guiding us. I love that idea. So, we are each working on personal goals so we can inspire others to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my goals is to study those 2,200 references of the Savior. So far, I have completed 1\/10 of these references. It has already helped me, and this and my other goals are<\/em> like SIPS of living water. I found this blog post<\/a> where President Nelson talks about his experience with the 2200 scriptures. He sounds youthful and full of excitement for the gospel. I want to be like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I find our 97-year-old prophet’s pace to be really fast. I try to keep up on all the handbook changes and policy updates. I stopped following the church Instagram account because it made me feel overwhelmed sometimes. I keep lists of President Nelson’s invitations to study this and study that. I make efforts to follow … Continue reading I can’t keep up, but I am trying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,36,20,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-church","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-new-testament","category-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21010"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28468,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions\/28468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}