{"id":31636,"date":"2026-01-12T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=31636"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:02:45","slug":"goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/goals\/","title":{"rendered":"#Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t think we’re using hashtags or saying “#Goals” anymore, but this verse is pretty aspirational for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notice that Nephi says his father Lehi was obedient unto the word of the Lord. End of statement. This is a character trait of Lehi, a long-established pattern in his life. Nephi continues, “Wherefore (meaning because of this, or for this reason), [Lehi] did as the Lord commanded.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nephi also says he was born of goodly parents. To Nephi, GOODNESS and OBEDIENCE were defining characteristics of his parents, so (of course) they would do what the Lord asked of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have parents like this, and they have been missing from our lives for a year because they have been serving a mission. This is their second mission together. They served as mission leaders for three years when they were in their fifties, and now they are in their seventies. They have been serving in Puerto Rico where my dad served as a young missionary in the early 1970’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can say of my parents, “They are obedient, so they answered the call for more senior missionaries to serve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They come home this week. I have their car in my driveway, a nice bedroom waiting for them because they fly in so late, and flags to wave at the airport. Hooray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, as my dad would say, Hurrah for Israel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t think we’re using hashtags or saying “#Goals” anymore, but this verse is pretty aspirational for me. Notice that Nephi says his father Lehi was obedient unto the word of the Lord. End of statement. This is a character trait of Lehi, a long-established pattern in his life. Nephi continues, “Wherefore (meaning because of … Continue reading #Goals<\/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":[33,11,46,36,20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-extended-family","category-faith","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636","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=31636"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31689,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636\/revisions\/31689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}