One Page Plan Of Happiness

In our leadership session of stake conference, Elder Christofferson challenged us to write our own one page plan of salvation.  To ponder and study and write our plan description, limited to one page.

In High Priests group today we ended up discussing this and sharing thoughts and ideas.  One of my favorite is that I always love to title it "The great plan of happiness".  Because there is a plan, and he gave it to us to make us happy.  Eternally.

Realize that all day everyday I make PowerPoint slides to communicate information on projects, issues etc at work.  So when they talk of a one page "report" I think in slides.  So mine is more of a bullet point slide that summarizes what I think is most important to me.  This likely changes over time but currently this is my summary:

• The Great Plan Of Happiness
• God is MY father
• Christ is MY Savior
• The Holy Ghost is MY friend
• My family is mine forever because of covenants I made with God
• I am a child of God
• Everyone that has been or will be on earth can be with God if they choose the Saviors way
• Adam and Eve made a remarkable choice that blesses me through their sacrifice

It was a great discussion and interesting to have so many comments about what people see as critical.  It is nice to be part of a quorum of fantastic men.

I got an off hand compliment at work this week.  I was in training the end of the week for "situational leadership" which is really changing your style and method of leading to fit the task or situation of a person (not the person itself, for example you may not need much direction if you were to cook a pizza, but if you were to do a chemical compatibility analysis for RoHS compliance you might need more specific direction).  Anyway, since I was at this class, I missed a major review with the president and all the VPs that we do every other month.  So I had the new planner who reports to me cover the meeting and all the preparation for it.  He did a great job, and is actually very skilled, smart and a great asset.  When I cam back late the afternoon of the class end, I went to my boss to get her feedback on how the meeting was, and how Craig (the planner) did.  

As she was describing the prep work and time spent with Craig going over the message, she said, I had to really dig in and understand all these topics I normally don't have to.  It was really good to get caught up but usually I know you are working them so there is only maybe one thing you want me to be aware of.  So she really feels like I have a handle on the programs and keep her informed at the right level.  That she trusts what I do and doesn't check up on it.  That is nice to have the trust.  I work hard to never violate or misuse that trust.  And to keep building it.  It makes for a much nicer work day, and for a much better peace of conscience.

I have attached in process pics of the laundry area of the boys room.  The edging for the countertop still needs to be mounted, and we have to grout.  The other pic is the sink.  We undermounted it to tile, not a usual thing, so we had to be creative.  We used glass tile as a surround, and made that the inside edge.  You can see that Ty and I had quite the time cutting those tile shapes around the sink (we still have it lined with plastic as a protection while we work on it).  Ty really has quite the gift.  He and Gavin are such helps.  They know so much and can work so hard.

Ty and Gavin have almost saved enough to pay for their missions.  Quite the awesome job they have done.  And people keep calling them to do work, like tile backsplashes and such.  Their work is beautiful.

Work hard, study hard, pray hard.  Love you.

Dad

3 John 1:4