Dream Big Dreams!

Do I have big dreams? Or am I too ambitious? I know God knows my heart and I know He knows why I strive for what I want to achieve. I sometimes doubt myself, especially when I feel that those people significant to me do not support what I am doing... But to be able to reach my dreams, I need to beat the odds and move forward. Learn the things I need to learn.  

Elder Dallin H. Oaks told a parable of a father and son in his talk entitled, "The Challenge to Become." The Father can give all that he has to the son but instead, he said, he will give the laws and the principles by which he had acquired his wisdom and stature. I think that is better. The son will treasure what he has more because he worked for it. And he can gain more even after losing it if he knows the secret of how to succeed in whatever he does.

He then added...

What a wonderful father... The statement has both spiritual and temporal meanings for me. As Jesus Christ experienced it all, we also need to experience some hardships in life, overcome them, and with grace can return to Heavenly Father. We can never do it how Jesus did it perfectly but we can do our best to endure life joyfully.  Then we can be like him.  His partners in spreading kindness and truth to the world.  For the meaning of the statement temporally, I cannot simply succeed without working hard. I know I need to learn more, even the skills needed in the business so I can understand the workers better.  Only then He can entrust me with more temporal blessings.

Here's a video of what I tried to learn this week.

This helped me understand not only the terminologies of woodworking but also the machines and blade characteristics. It also helped me how to improve our production area. I now understand the reasons for misunderstandings between the carpenter and the painter.  And I understand how this can be avoided in the workplace by changing simple things.

I am happy I was able to learn how to apply some of the principles I am learning in my life.  For sure the book we are required to read will again teach me a lot of things.