Time is short

Today it started to sink in.  I don't have a whole lot of time to be a missionary?  My presidents words still ring in my head, "Use the edges of time."  I'm excited to see mt family and do normal things, but the pain and sorrow that comes from being released as a missionary almost excedes my excitement.  Then I was thinking, don't be like that.  Use the time i have now to burst to the finish line.  Become even better than I am now, teach better, tract better, walk faster, talk more, be more friendly, learn more lessons, be more christlike.  The list goes on.  We cannot waste time on negative things, we must learn to flip them around and be postitive.  It's impossible not to experience these things but we cannot let them keep us from moving forward.

Eternal Families

Today I was thinking about my family and being with them forever.  I found out of an incident in my family, not within my own personal family but extended family.  And it made me very anxious to go home and get sealed to my family.  To be able to have the authority on the earth from God to seal families is the greatest gift for me.  To know that someone called of God has made it so my family will never be seperated, not even by death.  So i'm very anxious to be able to go to the temple with my family and be sealed to them for time and eternity.

The Atonement

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy. When we love the Lord, the benefits of the Atonement can wash away our earthly stain. Though our sins be as scarlet, they can become white as snow (see Isaiah 1:18), and we can become new creatures, filled with new life, new thoughts, and a renewed desire to do good continually.

                                      -Joseph B. Wirthlin

Not Ashamed

I was reading in 2Nephi in the Book of Mormon and was reading an Isiah chapter.  It's compared to Isiah 50 and it's verses 6 and 7.  It's talking about christ and how he'll go through a lot of persecution, but he won't turn his face and he'll trust in God.  I thought the same for me, No matter what mat happen to me I will not be ashamed of my testimony of christ and God will always be there me and anyone else.

My Studies

This morning I was reading 1Samuel in the old Testament and was reading about Hannah.  She was very sorrowful because she could not bare her husband a son.  He said,"Am I not better to thee than nine sons?"  How often i find myself doing the same, finding my flaws and morning over them.  So Hannah turned to the Lord and promised if He would provide a son, she would give him back to the Lord.  We to can turn to the Lord and make promises with, but we need to keep up our and end and give back to the Lord and then we will be blessed even more for a small sacrifice.  Hannah was then blessed with three sons and two daughters.

Conversations Episode 18 - Programs - Mormon Channel

Conversations Episode 18 - Programs - Mormon Channel

Patience with God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654QGjYHlJY

LDS.org - Liahona Article - “My Words … Never Cease”

LDS.org - Liahona Article - “My Words … Never Cease”

Come and See: A Father Indeed

Come and See: A Father Indeed: "Yesterday I got the chance to go out to the country it was so awesome. The beautiful landscape as far as the eye could see. There were anima..."

"Come unto me."

One night I had a dream--
I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord
and across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints,
one belonged to me and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that many times along the path of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest
and saddest times in my life.
This really bothered me and I questioned the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you would walk with me all the way,
but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life
there is only one set of footprints.
"I don't understand why in times when I needed you most,
you should leave me."
The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child,
I love you and I would never, never leave you
during your times of trial and suffering.
"When you saw only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."