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The Terra Firma

AcademyA survival guide

byBen Bernards

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#1Discover

WHY you are

here

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Once you discover why you’re here,

EVERYTHING changes

#1Discover

WHY you are

here

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#2Trustthe

rules

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“Christ ’s doctrines pertaining to the plan of salvation stand like sentinel scriptures to mark and light the w a y . H i s g o s p e l guardrails l ine the strait and narrow path to steady us, nudge us, and even jar us for the sake of our spiritual safety!”

Neal A. Maxwell

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Rules,

commandments,

and programs are

WHAT we do.

Doctrine is WHY

we do it.

(Life is much easier when

you discover the WHY

behind the WHAT)

#2Trustthe

rules

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#3Remember: It’s SUPPOSED

to be HARD

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"Unsurprisingly, therefore, this mortal school produces some soaring triumphs but also a history filled with individual mistakes. But we should not blame the school, nor the curriculum! Least of al l , the Schoolmaster! Furthermore, we dare not lecture Him on the plight of His students!

Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, no one ever promised us that discipleship in the last days would be a picnic in the park."

Neal A. Maxwell

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He expects

and allows

you to get it

wrong...

so you can

learn how to

get it right.

(Keep calm

and

expecto patronum)

#3Remember: It’s SUPPOSED

to be HARD

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#4Make-up work is available,

on one condition...

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...that we

join His club

and follow

His rules.

(the longer you wait to do make-up work, the harder it is...)

#4Make-up work is available,

on one condition...

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#5The only way

to know if this really works is

to give it a shot

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“ I should ______”

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Try it

and see.

But be

patient.

#5The only way

to know if this really works is

to give it a shot

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#6When all else

fails, remember your Heavenly Parents love

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“Remember this! The line ‘And they all lived happily ever after’ is never

written into the second act [of a play]. That line belongs in the third act, when

the mysteries are solved and everything is put right. …

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“Do not suppose that God willfully causes that which, for His own purposes, He

permits. When you know the plan and the purpose of it all, even these things will

manifest a loving Father in Heaven”

Boyd K. Packer“The Play and the Plan” 

CES Broadcast,  May 1995 

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“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

 The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

        Hath had elsewhere its setting,           And cometh from afar:

         Not in entire forgetfulness, 

        And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

        From God, who is our home:”

“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”, by William Wordsworth

#6When all else

fails, remember your Heavenly Parents love

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The Terra Firma

AcademyA survival guide

byBen Bernards

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For a copy of this presentation, follow me @benbernards or visit

benbernards.com/efy

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