When You
Have The Spirit
1. You feel happy, calm, and
clear-minded.
2. You Feel Generous.
3. Nobody can offend
you.
4. You wouldn't mind
everybody seeing what you are doing.
5. You are eager to be
with people and want to make them happy.
6. You are glad when
others succeed.
7. You are glad to
attend you meetings and participate in church activities.
8. You feel like
praying.
9. You wish you could
keep all the Lord's commandments.
10. You feel in control
- you don't overeat oversleep too much; yoou don't feel uncontrollable passions
or desires or lose your temper.
11. You think about the
Savior often and you want to know him better.
When You Don't Have The Spirit
1. You feel unhappy, depressed,
confused and frustrated.
2. You're positive, self
centered or resent demands made on you.
3. You are easily
offended.
4. You become sensitive
and evasive.
5. You avoid people,
especially members of your family; and you are critical of family members and
church authorities.
6. You envy or resent
the success of others.
7. You don't want to go
to Church, go home teaching, or take the sacrament; you wish you had another church
job or no job at all.
8. You don't want to
pray.
9. You find the
commandments bothersome, restricting, or senseless.
10. You feel emotions
and appetites so strongly, that you fear you cannot control them - hate,
jealousy, anger, lust, hunger, fatigue.
11. You hardly ever
think of the Savior, he seems irrelevant to your life, or worse part of a
confusing system that seems to work against you.
12. You get discouraged
easily and wonder if life is really worth it.