University Park Branch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

To love God and our neighbor are the first and second Great Commandments! (Mattew 22:35-40). How will you show love for God and your neighbor this week? ... #Jesus #love #gospel #God See more

This week in Penn State news: - Time is running out for students to order required COVID-19 tests http://ow.ly/X1IZ50Dsubh - Penn State campuses offer events in... honor of Black History Month http://ow.ly/9CIK50Dsube - Things to Do at Penn State http://ow.ly/lcKb50DstX5 - Spring student arrival parking, traffic and transit impacts announced http://ow.ly/e4CX50DstX9 - COVID-19 Vaccines: Asked and Answered with Steve Tracey http://ow.ly/iNOV50Dsubi - No-cost access to Centre Daily Times offered through digital news program http://ow.ly/C2k650Dsubg - Penn State Lehigh Valley Women’s Basketball team works out for charitable cause http://ow.ly/BJo250DstXd - Do I need a vaccine if I've already had COVID-19? | Ask CIDD http://ow.ly/3ndJ50Dsubd - Startup Week offers student innovators pitch competitions and startup resources http://ow.ly/DEZ050Dsubc - Scholarships from University Libraries available for undergraduates http://ow.ly/AQqX50Dsubb -Take a (virtual) trip across PA with Penn State Extension http://ow.ly/JLle50Dsubf

I commissioned this painting for Pat as an anniversary present one year. This was her great-grandfather’s ranch house in the mountains outside of Enterprise, Ut...ah. I don’t think I’ve ever given her a gift that has mattered more to her than this one. It’s important to celebrate the scenes from our ancestors’ lives because of the tie it gives us to those earlier generations. For Pat and me, it gives us opportunities to tell our children and now grandchildren about our early family’s beginnings. Next month we’ll have the opportunity to share with you more about the importance of families in God’s plan during RootsTech Connect Family Discovery Day on February 27 at 12:00 p.m. mountain standard time. We invite you to join us.

No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can... bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it. Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf Read more from Elder Uchtdorf here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org//of-regrets-and-resolu

Saints, when it comes to skin there is no such thing as being colorblind. I wish we would take the sentence, "I don't see color" out of our vocabularies, becaus...e it's not true. WE ALL SEE COLOR. And literal sight has nothing to do with it, there are blind folks who are also prejudiced even though they can't physically see. It isn't negative to notice one another's differences what matters is what we do or don't do once we are aware of them. In the Gospel we are taught that we have each been uniquely made in God's image, intentionally. So why would we be trying to be blind or raise kids to be colorblind to any element of others that God intentionally created. When we say that we are colorblind it means that we must figuratively erase the person's color in order for us to treat them equally. If you can see a person's color and not be biased then why on earth would you need to be colorblind? Anytime we need to block out a person's difference in order to engage appropriately with them we are creating a blind spot. We can't keep our baptismal covenant to bear one another's burdens that they may be light, mourn with those that mourn, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, when we have blind spots. Because then we don't see the ways those differences impact them in the world, we don't know that those differences may need specific lifting, comfort, and mourning. If I was "colorblind" I'd be at church activities lettin' all the li'l fair skinned babies come home with 3rd degree sunburns. Y'all know why they don't? Cause I see color and chase them down with 100 spf sunblock. I'm not bout to be the Black youth leader talking 'bout, "I don't even see color, I treat all the youth the same." No, I don't, I make all the youth of every color put on sunscreen, but I make the redheads put it on fiddy-lem times (fifty-eleven/50-11 for those new to this term, it means more times than you wanna count). True Christlike love is not to love one another in spite of our differences, it is to love one another INCLUSIVE OF OUR DIFFERENCES. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth Saints! Zandra

It's really hard to understand when God is talking to me sometimes!! Thankfully, I have modern day prophets and apostles of God who tell me ways I can feel the Holy Ghost. Message if you'd like to learn how the spirit speaks to you!