Day 276

• Principle: Some things are good, some things are better, but you should focus on the best.

• Book of Mormon Reading: Helaman 14:20-15:6

  • Why are signs given?  When it comes to building your testimony how effective are signs?  Would you rate them as good, better, or best?

• Mary and Martha is the essential story of choosing that which is best over that which is good.  As you read this story again think over your average day.  What are you doing that is good that is distracting you from that which is best?

  • Luke 10:38–42

  • John 11:1–47; 12:2–8.

• Dallin H. Oaks, “Good, Better, Best,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2007, 104–8.

• Additional Study:

  • Bonnie D. Parkin, “Choosing Charity: That Good Part,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2003, 104–6.

  • Hum Your Favorite Hymn, Children’s Songbook No. 152

  • I Know That My Redeemer Lives, Hymns No. 136