Larsen Family Thanksgiving Message 2015

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Hi friends, Dallin and Karee and Boo Dane from our home on this Thanksgiving holiday wanted to send out just a short Thanksgiving message letting all know how grateful we are for so many things including family and friends from around the world.

Gosh, we’ve been blessed with so many great friends or family is growing isn’t it?

As I think about the last year it is a time of gratitude. I’d like like maybe we’ll start with Boo what are some things that you’re grateful for this Thanksgiving season?

Health and really anything God gives us. So you feel like it’s been a good year?

Yeah definitely been a it’s been a good for me and a good year for the whole family.

fantastic Dane how about you? what are you thankful for?

I’m thankful for friends

And you got some good ones, don’t you? Some good friends. Are you thankful that you’re able to grow your hair a lot longer than your dad? Look at this! He decided he wanted to grow his hair, ad we said while you can grow it you ought to grow it, I guess!

His hair is getting pretty long and I’m jealous Well the only parent that’s coaching him to cut his hair is his gymnastics coach because when he is on the high bar he can’t really see the best.

so these guys are in the school in the fifth and fourth grade I’m thankful you getting good grades I’m thankful their in gymnastics and active

Saxophone and trumpet and Dane is playing the piano and so a lot of fun things Karree you what you? What are you thankful this Thanksgiving season?

I’m thankful for my family absolutely love our family we have two new additions to the family, it would be presumptuous if we need to…

no no all right ahead!

We had a young man come and ask for our daughters hand in marriage and he is just a stellar young man. The only issue is that he’s another Dallin!

Now that’s three Dallins in the family. And we got a new brand new little grand baby girl and niece and her name is Harper May. And she was born November 6th. So the family is growing and it’s healthy that’s my most favorite so I am incredibly grateful for my family.

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LifeLessons – Submit Your LifeLessons Videos

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Oh hi life lessons Community I am here to ask your help with something as we started this I said “We need to hear your stories” but you know I’m hearing from people from France and from Japan and from South America and throughout the United States and the likelihood of me getting on a plane and finding myself in your home town here in the next little while is probably slim to none. And so this is; we thought about this and the easiest way to do this is for you to just get out your cell phone and have someone record a life lesson.

Something you’ve learned along the way that’s made all the difference in your life. And then just send it to us in a video file at dallinlarsen.com and we’ll post it up on the website. Because I want to hear from you! And other people want to hear your life lessons. So take some time and think about the one or two things in your life that’s made all the difference whether positively or negatively. I don’t care, this is your life! and they are lessons in your life, so I’m not going to tell you exactly what to do. Take your cell phone or camera, and shoot a video of that.

Make it around 3 to 5 minutes and then we’ll post it up on dallinlarsen.com We’re looking forward to getting your life lessons I encourage you to do that and to be a blessing in someone else’s life. Because they need to hear from you today. and your particular life lesson is going to help them avoid some pitfalls in their life and to be able to get significance and success even more quickly then you had not shared. So do something good in the world today and share your life lessons with this life lesson community at dallinlarsen.com

Life Lessons – Truth

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In this Life Lesson, I share a personal experience that happened to me in Junior High and the consequences of a choice I made. I hope through this Life Lesson, you will avoid such choices.

Hi and welcome to another Life Lesson moment. On a video from a few weeks ago We talked about the 10 Commandments. And I gave you the key words and encourage you to memorize those 10 Commandments and not only memorize, but to really be thinking about every day and focusing on those. And incorporating those into your life. As the foundation for creating a successful life. 3500 years ago those Commandments, not suggestions; but commandments were given I haven’t been perfect in living all of those, but that’s what life’s about. Getting back up and starting again and brushing your yourself off.

So just as kind of a repeat or a reminder of those Number one is one: God shall have no other god before me. 2 is zoo: Thou shall not worship graven images. 3 is tree: Trees have veins Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain. 4 is port: Keep the Sabbath day holy. Because there’s holes in the ports, so keep the Sabbath day holy. 5 is family because that’s the average size of the American family. The family is father and mother Honor thy father and thy mother. 6 is sticks. Hit someone over the head with a stick, what happens? You kill him Thou shall not kill. 7 is heaven; in order to get to heaven, you must remain pure Thou shall not commit adultery. 8 is gate. Gates are made out of steel Thou shall not steal. 9 is lying. Thou shall not lie or thou shall not bare false witness. 10 is tent Thou shall not covet; tents are used to cover things Thou shall not covet. So those are the 10 Commandments.

You know, so a life lesson. One of those commandments, 8 is Gate; Thou shall not steal One of the life lessons I learned was the importance of not stealing. I was always taught I shouldn’t steal but in the 8th grade on a cold winter lunch hour at Madison Jr. High, I went with some of my friends to Johnson Drug for lunch. It’s back when they used to have drugstores when they had a place where you could get hamburgers and things inside the drugstore and the great old fashioned milkshakes. Perfect So I went to Johnson drug, and I had my coat on, and later in the afternoon in knew that I had to go to science class. Mr. Scotts science class in the 8th grade. And it occurred to me at lunchtime that I did not have a thermostat. And he required me to bring one to class that afternoon. And so after we got done eating, I remember as I was getting ready to walk out; “Oh I need a thermostat” and I didn’t have money to buy a thermostat and so one of my friends said “Larsen, just take a thermostat!” “They’ll never catch you!” So you know what I did? I succumbed to peer pressure and I stole a thermostat from Johnson drug and that was in the 8th grade so I must have been about 15. So 40 years ago. Stole a thermostat, put it in my pocket I thought I was really cool “Wow, I’ve done it the next Bonnie and Clyde!”

So I walk out of Johnson Drug and I look in my coat pocket and I swear that there was no thermostat. To this day, 40 years later I don’t know what happened to that thermostat. It was gone. That’s not the…well maybe that’s another life lesson nonetheless, what I wanted to share with you is over the next 40 years, even though it was probably $3 or $4 Probably only a couple days after I’d stolen in, is when the guilt started to set in. Because I knew better and I was taught “Thou shall not steal” but yet, I did. And over the years I bet there hasn’t been a year go by that I haven’t thought about John Johnson and Nile Boyle the owners of Johnson Drug, and how I stole a thermostat from them in 1973, And so, guess what? I never repaid them and never told them about it. So I guess it was about 3 years ago now, I think it was 2012, my parents decided to sell the home I grew up in Rex burg Idaho and move closer to their children in Utah. and so that was an emotional moment selling the homestead where I had so many wonderful memories. of growing up. my goodness. 1 of 10 children with parents who are amazing.

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Life Lessons – Great Leaders Are Passionate

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In this Life Lesson we discuss how leaders are passionate about their purpose. What is your passion?

Hi, and welcome to another Life Lesson Message We’re talking about leaders. And the traits of great leaders throughout time talked about the fact that leaders dream big dreams. That they work hard. Not afraid of hard work. The fact that they don’t quit on themselves, but they quit on things. Today we’re going to be talking about passion. Every great leader that I have known or throughout the worlds history They’re passionate about what they do. They’re passionate about their life work they know that they were born to do something great. And they keep searching for it until they find it. There’s a lot of great quotes on passion. Some of my favorites are; well this one from Nelson Mandela “There is no passion to found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” And Thomas Edison said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.”

In the 1990’s, I spent a lot of time with Dennis Whitley. We traveled around the world quite a few times. And from Dennis, I first heard the saying “Chase your passion, not your pension. And if you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” I like that I think of some of the great passionate leaders in the worlds history I think of for example, John F. Kennedy when he said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.” And how he valued service. in those words. I think of Ronald Reagan was he passionate about liberty and free enterprise and democracy more than communism? of course he was. He was a passionate man. You saw it come out of every fiber of his being. When you think of Mother Theresa, and you see a woman who was passionate in serving and spending her life sharing with those who are less fortunate? I certainly do. I know that in my own life, the things that I’ve been passionate about are the things I’ve been successful at. I think about that Eagle Scout. I was passionate about going to Disneyland. And by earning that Eagle Scout, I was passionate about running a marathon. And so that drove me. It was the fuel that I put on the fire. I was passionate about building a company.

So I would ask you, “What are you passionate about?” What were you born to do? What must you accomplish when you’re still on the earth? So my call to action for you today is to write that down. I want to know what your passionate about. You know, I was chasing money instead of my passion. I graduated from college I’ve had 12 careers because I wanted to find out what I was great at doing, which reminds me of what Steve Job said. He said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do,” And I love this quote from Bishop T. D. Jakes. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion.