Rachel Pilgrim

Dog mom. cat lover. working mom of 3. member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. loves cross stitch. English paper piecing. movies and travel

[Dallin H. Oaks @OaksDallinH]

Missionary work is soaring to new heights. We are days away from the opening of 55 new missions. This brings the total number of missions to 506. There is a total of over 87,000 full-time missionaries. And we are currently being reinforced by the first wave of 18-year-old sisters beginning their service. 

In coming weeks, we will have the largest number of full-time missionaries in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

These missionaries’ first responsibility is to testify of Jesus Christ to a world that suffers without knowledge of His divine mission. They invite people across the globe to become part of His true and living Church.

I affirm my testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth of His gospel. The Holy Ghost has given me a witness of its truthfulness, and I rejoice that I can spend my life in proclaiming it.

[Rachel Pilgrim @rwpilgrim67]

@realDonaldTrump Do it!!

[Rachel Pilgrim @rwpilgrim67]

When my daughter did Trek the boys cried because they were not allowed to help the girls up the hill. But girls can do hard things!!

https://t.co/upJfNQPzui

[Jeanine Elsholz @JeanineElsholz]

I have been reading the book “Forty Years” by Mark Henshaw and came across this statement, given by Brigham Young at the cornerstone ceremony of the Salt Lake Temple.

The question was posed to him—“Do you suppose we shall finish this temple, Brother Brigham?”

His answer was surprising.

“I do not know, and I do not care any more about it than I should if my body was dead and in the grave and my spirit in Paradise.

I never have cared but for ONE THING, and that is, simply to know that I am now right before my Father in Heaven.

If I am this moment, this day,

doing the things God requires of my hands,

and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be,

I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.”
(Chapter 3)

This is so powerful!

This has helped me “refine my desires” as Neal A. Maxwell taught us.

What a great thing to focus on every day—

Am I where you want me to be,
and doing what you want me to be doing?

What a beautiful prayer we should be carrying in our hearts!

One day at a time.

Seeking Heavenly guidance.

Following promptings as they come, no matter how small they may seem.

Reporting and connecting with God at the end of the day.

Not worrying about the past.
Not worrying about the future.
Living WITH God in the moment.
Doing our best to be “right before our Father in Heaven” for that ONE day.

This is something we ALL can become more mindful of!

[Kari Ann 🍓 @kariwarburton]

“The Savior has entrusted each of us personally with sacred spiritual experiences and knowledge. Even on a daily basis. Because of those experiences, we can see for ourselves the meaning of the empty tomb: that Jesus Christ lives and is actively blessing all who seek Him.”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

[Rachel Pilgrim @rwpilgrim67]

@SenateGOP So why don’t we privatize TSA. Make it the airlines responsibility?

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

With recent deliveries to Hawaii and Alaska, all 50 U.S. states have now received at least one truckload of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of its nationwide effort to distribute 250 truckloads to commemorate the United States' 250th anniversary.

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/GznPaKHIXc

[Gary E. Stevenson @StevensonGaryE]

As you strive to push new limits in deepening your conversion, you too may be subjected to inhospitable environments, severe temperatures, and extreme pressure.

Putting on “the whole armour of God” will allow you to “stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11) and enhance your ability to stand firm in life’s inevitable spiritual battles.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

One of my favorite descriptions of freedom of choice comes from the prophet Samuel in the Book of Mormon.

“And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto himself; and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are free; ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto you a knowledge and he hath made you free.

He hath given unto you that ye might know good from evil, and he hath given unto you that ye might choose life or death; and ye can do good and be restored unto that which is good, or have that which is good restored unto you; or ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you.”

Freedom is one of God’s greatest gifts to His children.

[Guy Incognito @GuyInco15542744]

A temple is reopening in California. The Lord is not done with that state

[Ryker @RykerJackson97]

"Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways." - President Ezra Taft Benson

[Rachel Pilgrim @rwpilgrim67]

@BasedMikeLee

[Church of Jesus Christ | Come Unto Christ @ComeUntoChrist]

The hope that comes through Jesus Christ is not reserved for a select few. It is not exclusive to sacred spaces or special moments. Hope through Jesus Christ can be felt wherever you are as you build faith in Him.

[Gerrit W. Gong @GerritWGong]

Platforms and technologies cannot substitute for authentic, divine, and human connection. Learn more about hearing God’s voice in an age of artificial intelligence:

https://t.co/2CqB7OZkBK

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

Took me 20 years to comprehend Joseph

Late in his life, hunted and persecuted, Joseph Smith returned again and again to a single image of what his whole work was finally about. It was not a doctrine of separate souls saved one at a time. It was a welding.

He saw the human family as a chain reaching back through every generation, and he saw the work of salvation as the forging of that chain. Link by link. Father to child and child to father, until not one soul was left hanging alone at the end of the line.

Heaven was not a gathering of individuals who happened to be saved in the same place. It was one welded family. And the binding of it, the sealing of parents to children across the whole length of human time, was the very thing the restored gospel had come into the world to do.

"There is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children… For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect." (D&C 128:18)

Postmodern America has built a secular civilization of separated souls. Every person sealed behind his own eyes, wired to everyone and bound to no one, more connected than any generation in history and lonelier than nearly any that came before.

And beneath the loneliness sits a quiet assumption we have half swallowed without ever deciding to believe it, that the isolation is simply the truth about us. That we arrive alone and leave alone, and spend the middle as fundamentally separate selves, straining across an abyss that cannot be closed.

This is the whole modern portrait of a person. An individual standing by himself, autonomous, complete in his solitude, a self for whom relationship is something added from outside rather than the very thing he is made of.

The LDS welding doctrine says that portrait is false at the deepest level there is.

You were never built to be a single soul. You were built to be a link, bound on every side, your own perfection tangled up in others and theirs in yours, so that not one of you arrives without the rest.

The isolation you feel in the worst hours is not your nature reporting in. It is your exile from it. It is the felt weight of the scattering, the ache of a family not yet welded back into one.

Joseph demolishes, in one stroke, the lonely picture of salvation, the idea that you get hauled out of the water one soul at a time while everyone else treads on their own.

No one is saved alone. Joseph put it in words I still cannot get all the way through in a single breath. We without them cannot be made perfect, neither can they without us.

The chain comes up whole or it does not come up.

I cannot be made complete without my fathers, and my fathers cannot be made complete without me.

The living and the dead are bound into a single body that has to be welded back together, link by link, before any part of it can be carried home.

[Rachel Pilgrim @rwpilgrim67]

@ScottPresler Sturgis would be an awesome stop. Never stop!!!

[Clark G. Gilbert @ClarkG_Gilbert]

God Loves His Children: Every time I go somewhere, I think “Who does the Lord want me to see?”

During my recent assignment to the Europe North Area, Christine and I joined nearly 1,500 young single adults gathered in from across Europe. We could feel their strength, hope, and commitment to the gospel. More specifically, I could hear the Lord reaching through me to try to communicate just how much the He loved each one them.

Those feelings were real and profound. I know that God loves His children and one of the miracles of my calling is that I repeatedly feel that love pour through me as I teach and minister to others in His name.

[D. Todd Christofferson @ChristoffDTodd]

To me, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is something of a sacred place.

Historically and spiritually, the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the Constitution of the United States led the way for religious liberty as the first freedom granted by the First Amendment.

How grateful we are to celebrate what the Lord has done through wise men and women to bring about the privileges many now enjoy throughout the world.

[Henry B. Eyring @EyringHB]

Many of us, in moments of personal anguish, feel that God is far from us. The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God; it occasionally covers us.

God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

Our own desires, rather than a feeling of “Thy will be done” (Matthew 6:10), create the feeling of a pavilion blocking God. God is not unable to see us or communicate with us, but we may be unwilling to listen or submit to His will and His time.

We remove the pavilion when we feel and pray, “Thy will be done” and “in Thine own time.” His time should be soon enough for us since we know that He wants only what is best.

The Lord’s delays often seem long; some last a lifetime. But they are always calculated to bless. They need never be times of loneliness or sorrow or impatience.

Although His time is not always our time, we can be sure that the Lord keeps His promises. For any of you who now feel that He is hard to reach, I testify that the day will come that we all will see Him face to face.

Artwork: "Faith is Holding Both" by Jenna Conlin

[Neil L. Andersen @AndersenNeilL]

Today we will meet with media from throughout California and guide them through the recently renovated San Diego California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Soon, thousands will walk through the doors of the temple during an open house as we prepare for the August 23 rededication.

It is an amazing blessing to see the Lord’s temples dotting the earth. I love the house of the Lord.