Football And Life

So I Got this in a letter from my day and I thought I would share it with the world because I liked it so much.

"My Greenbay Packers are a perfect 10 and 0 so far for the season, I
believe everything in this world tend to point to Christ, even the
NFL. As I was saying the Packers are perfect for the season, sometimes
we see people who seem to almost be perfect. The Packers while they
have no losses yet this year do have a defence that has a lot of
problems being consistent, allowing some teams to score a lot of
points. The way the Packer deal with the problem is to score more
point than the opposing team at all costs, the thing that the Packers
do well. Then they work very hard and patiently with the defense
helping them get better. Sometimes we have to be like the Packers,
when the opposition exploits our weaknesses we should respond by doing
what we do well at even a higher degree and also work on our
weaknesses with coaching and patience. Never let the opposition get
you down just work harder doing what you are good at which will give
you success and keep your spirits up. mean while you identify what the
opposing force is hurting you on and get help and work to strengthen
your self there,. teams or people who let themselves get to
discouraged will lose and experience great sadness. No one is with out
weakness, when you fix one weakness Satan will find another one to
hurt you with, but a simple way to stay up is to do more of what you
are good at, for success and keeping your spirits up and repairing the
weak area at the same time with the help of Heavenly Father."

By Eric Simmons

The Doctrine of Christ

The doctrine of Christ is such a great thing it is all about you making a choice and that makes me think of a quote by Doc. Seuss that talks about choices "you've got brains in your head feet in your shoes you can steer yourself any way you choose you're on your own and you know what you know and it's up to you to decide where you'll go well that's something well isn't that something.". Its such a great statement if you think about it. The reason why is because if you are going to follow anything Jesus Christ has set up you have to choose to. That is the first step to have faith in him and once you do that you can start to repent of the things you have done wrong in your life. After you make that choice you will want to make the choice to get baptised so that you follow Christ example and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost so that we can have the Spirit of God with us at all times as we live in a way to be worthy to have it. We learn about this in many different places in the Scriptures but one of them is in The Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 11:37-39

"37 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things.

 38 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and be baptized in my name, and become as a little child, or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.

 39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.".

As we build on the rock of Christ there is one more thing we must do to inter into the kingdom of God and that is to endure to the end. and that learn about in this in 2 Nephi 31:20

 

"20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."

This means that you need keep living the commandments of God and living in a clean manor. The best way to keep close to the Lord is by studying the Scriptures so that you can keep learning about Christ and what he has done for you and what he will keep doing for you. I know that as you keep moving forward and living in the way the Lord wants you to he will bless you and that it will bring great joy to your life. This is a great thing that we all have the opportunity to inter into. I know it will bless your life greatly.

Living the Gospel

Mosiah18:8-10

8 And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light;

 9 Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life—

 10 Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?

I know this to be true that as you come unto the Lord that you will want to help every one and to do anything and every thing you can for them. As you do this the will pour his Spirit out on you more abundantly they you will ever know.

Skating Through Life.

I love to go skating and learn how to do new tricks. Some times i fall down but i just have to get back up and keep working on it tell I get it right. When you finally learn and land that new trick it is such a great feeling. You just don't want to stop at that point you just keep going and skating all day and into the next. That is a lot like the gospel as you learn about the gospel of Jesus Christ and what He wants from you you just want to keep moving forward and doing more as you feel the spirit. When you learn how to live or as you try to live the commandments of God you just want to keep going that day and into the next. Every time you start to learn a new trick I get closer and closer to doing it right and I keep wanting to get it down. As you live the gospel and get closer and closer to the way our Father in Heaven wants us to live you want to keep doing it tell you can get it down. When you start to get one thing down you want to learn how to do something that is a little harder and make you stretch just a little more. It just feels so good when you finish your day and get ready for bed and you think back and your like I land that trick or your like I lived in a way i know I should. You lay in bed and you think to your self LIFE IS GOOD

Same Jersey

We all come from a different place. Some from rich families, some from poor, some from other countries and some from other schools. But it does not matter; we are all here as God's children and we are all here trying to make it back to Him. So why don't we all go forward togeather working on doing what God wants us to do. Matthew 22:39 says "And the second [commandment] is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.". Let's move forward and help each other make it back to our loving Heavenly Father.

This Life Is A Life Of Choice

God sent us here to make a choice to see if we will follow him. To see if we would choose good or evil. to see if we would choose life or death. The way we can choose good or evil, life or death is by if we are going to follow Jesus Christ. The first way we follow Christ is by faith in Him and His sacrifice for us so that we can repent, which is the second part of following Him. We ask for His forgiveness and strive to not do these sins again. If we do fall back down we need to get back up again and ask for His forgiveness and keep moving forward. The third part is to be baptised like Him. After He was baptised He asked us to follow Him. In 2 Nephi 31:5 it says "And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized, yea, even by water!". Then after we are baptised we are given the Gift Of The Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands. That is the forth step in choosing to follow Christ. The last step is one of the hardest steps to follow. It is to Endure To The End. What does that mean? It means that we need to follow all of His commandment and repent of our sins that we all have and continue to have. As we go through life we just keep changing for the better here a little and there a little. Alma 37:6 "Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise."

Vices In Life

I like in this video how it shows how when you get addicted to some thing that is all you can focus on. When you are stuck in that vice it is hard to get out and the best way to get out if you are stuck in the vice is to pray and turn to our Heavenly Father and ask Him for help. As you go through life stay away from things that can hold you down. As you raise your children teach them the hazards of getting addicted to things. As we learn to stay away and keep ourselves clean we will live a happier life and a more full life.

Life after Death

A great thing about the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that there is life after death. When we pass away we go to a place called the spirit world. In says in Alma 40:11-12 

"11Now, concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection—Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel, that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are taken  home to that God who gave them life.

 12And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow."

In the spirit world we will be able to learn of God and his plan if we did not have the chance to do so here. I love to know that we will all have a chance to have all of Gods blessing and to be able to live with Him, his Son and are familys for all time and eternity. It is such a great blessing to know were we go after this life and to know that every one will have a chanse to here this great massage and to have it bless there soul.

When it all comes down to what is really the most important thing in life you find that family is the thing that you strive for the most. Some days you might be mad at them and others you wish they wouldn't tell embarrassing stories about you. In the end you will always love them and you will always want them in your life. One of the great blessing about the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that you can be with your family for all time and eternity. I am so happy to know that I can be with my family after this life.

Word of Wisdom

The Word of Wisdom is defined in The Doctrine and Covenants 89:2 "To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days.".

 It is sent from God to help us in our temporal lives or, in other words, our lives here on earth. It states that we need to stay away from the use of  alcohol, tobacco and hot drink (coffee and tea). It also tells us things that we should eat and use in Doctrine and Covenants 89:10-14

"10And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—

11Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.

12Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;

13And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.

14All grain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth".

As we live the Word of Wisdom the Lord has promised to bless us in our lives with many different things. We can learn of this also in Doctrine and Covenants 89:18-20

"18And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;

19And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures;

20And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint."

I know this to be true and I have seen it in my life that as I have lived the Word of Wisdom I have found treasures of knowledge and health and it is a great thing to know that the Lord has blessed me with this.

If you want to read the Word of Wisdom click on this link Doctrine and Covenants 89

Open Book Test

The lord gave us the Scriptures so that we could pass the test. It is just like in school when the teacher says you may use your notes and book to finish the test. The lord has given us the answers and the way we need to go. We just need to study them and learn to follow the rules. Its all there for us to use we just need to use it and we will pass the test. I know the Scriptures are the word of God and that as we study and pray we will find the answers we need and know how to pass the test. All we need to do is open the book and read it.

Mother's Day What A Day!

Mother's Day is a great day for us to be able to show mom's, wife's and all women in the world some true love. We should always show them how precious they are to us but on this day they are set apart from the troubles and worries of the world. How great is it that they get a day made just for them they are always taking care of others, children, and family's. There is nothing like a mother's love. The only other thing I can think of is the love the love Christ has for us. That is how amazing a mother's love is. All I know is that I love my mother for every thing that she has done for me and will do for me. I love my mother. I know that through the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ that family's can be together for ever and that I will always have my mother's love.

When You Love God Keep His Commandments

It says in John 14: 5 "If ye love me, keep my commandments." one of the ways you can show God your love is to keep his commandments. Why do you think God wants us to keep his commandments? He asked us to follow them because he loves us. he wants us to be able to live with him and his son after this life. The only way we can do that is to do what he has asked and that is to keep his commandments. Alma says in Alma 11: 37 "And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins.". The only way you can be saved is to do just as he askeds "If ye love me, keep my commandments.". We need to strive to always be clean. I know that that is the way we can live with God and his son for ever.

There is more to Being some one then Doing some thing

To Do and to Be work together, but to do is one thing and to be is a better thing. Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy said "The Savior often denounced those who did without being—calling them hypocrites: “This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me” (Mark 7:6). To do without to be is hypocrisy, or feigning to be what one is not—a pretender." So, just as they say, don't just do good things, be a good thing. When you become a good thing you are becoming more Christ like. So as you go through life don't just be close to Christ with your lips but be close to him with your heart. What are some of the ways you can come closer to Christ with your heart? The best place to start is to come up to him through baptism with the proper power and authority, or, in other words, by some one holding the priesthood of God.

What is the priesthood? It is the authority to act in God's name.

We learn about this from Matthew3:13-15, "13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be ^abaptized of him.14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?15And Jesus answering said unto him, ^aSuffer it to be so now: for thus it ^bbecometh us to ^cfulfil all ^drighteousness. Then he suffered him." Why did Jesus come John? He came to John because he was the only one that had the priesthood of God and had the authority to baptise men. We all need to follow Christ's example and be baptised by some one holding the priesthood so that we can be clean from all of our sins and get the gift of the Holy Ghost so that we can be led by the Hold Ghost and be a better person. When we do this we can become a better person and not just do good things.

What do I want to be?

What do I want to be? or better yet, Who am I? now I'm going to ask you to do some thinking. So who am i? I am (state your name)? My parents are? I work at? My address is? Now that you thought of that you still have not answered, who am I? So who am I? I am a son or daughter of God our loving heavenly father. When I think of it that way there is so much more to it. Now I think if i am that, a son or daughter of God, and he loves me then what does he want me to do. All he ever asks of us is to live the commandments that he has given us so that we can be good boys and girls and come and live with him again. I know that it can be hard to live the commandments some times but if you look in to the Scriptures you can see that we can do it but some times we just have to stretch ourselves some times but 1 Nephi 3:7 says "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I ^awill go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." I love that Scripture so much because it shows that sometimes it might be hard but the lord will prepare a way for us to accomplish the things that he commands us to do. When things seem like they are hard to do or it is hard to be a good boy or girl just remember that the Lord will help you and just say a prayer and ask for help. I can say you will be able to over come anything. Always remember that the Lord will bless you for doing what is right. You will not be eternally disadvantaged for doing what is right.

Life Has Just Begun

This Line from a song by Catch 22 I like because there is so much truth in it.

"I've got myself I've got my friends I've got my little family but that's not where it ends this one goes out to you it goes out to everyone it's in the name of honesty because life has just begun"

When you look at the line life has just begun its so true you may have yourself , your freinds, and your little family but there is more to life but that is a great start and that is part of what you need to make this life meaningful but there is one vital thing you are missing and that is to find the gospel of Jesus Christ. When you find that you will be able to grow closer as a family you will find a better relationship with your freinds and you will be able to know the answers to "Where did I come from?", "Why am I here?", and "Where am I going?". When you know the answer to those 3 questions you will be able to make decisions to things that will bless your life and your family's life more than you will ever know. I know that if you will learn about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints then you will be able to know the answer to those 3 questions. I know that your life will be more blessed then you ever thought it could be and that when you come unto Christ you will be able to bless the lives of the people around you in so many ways. I ask you to learn and pray about his church that is on the earth today so that you can know for yourself if it is true.  

Boundary's in Life

The commandments that the Lord has set for us in the scriptures and by modern day Prophets are there to keep us safe and to help us go farther then we could if we didnt follow them. You see my friend in the picture to the right. He is happy and he is on a mountain were he can see the beauty that the Lord has given us. But the most inportant thing is he is in side the boundarys on the mountain and he is safe. He is safe because he is in an area were the ski patrol has looked over and said it is safe to be there because they found the the snow is safe and it wont slide. They have also found that there are no rocks that are just under the snow or any small trees or stumps that could hook his board and cause him harm. But there is more to that he is also able to go off jumps that were made by some one that knows what they are doing. So that when he goes off of them he can shoot in to the air right and when he lands he will have a safe landing. So when he goes off the things that have been made right and and safe he can learn to do new tricks and learn how he can go farther and learn new things the right way. When you look at the commandments they are there so that you can be safe and learn new things that will make you go farther and learn new things in the right way. But when you break the commandments that is when you get hurt because you have gone off the path that was made safe for you.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

So have you ever thought about the Scripture (Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.) to me there is a lot of meaning there. So i made me think of (Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.) these scriptures a very simple and at the same time have so much meaning. If god is always going to be the same then his church that is on the earth to day will always be the same. So God will have a Prophet to lead and guide his church and he will have 12 apostles here on the earth to day. So by me studying the word of God it helps me know that The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints it the true church on the earth. It shows to me that God still speaks to us to day through is prophets. I Know that he loves us and that he wants us to come and live with agen some day. I know that you can come to the same under standing as i have if you will pray to God in the name of his some Jesus Christ and ask him if he has a propher on the earth to day that leads and giuds his church.That is a promis give by God in (Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:) and also so many other times in the Scripturs.

The Lord Answers Prayers

I learned that the lord will answer prayers in many different ways and you never know in what way or at what time. I got a call from a lady and her cat was really sick and it was at the vets and the vet told her that he didnt know if it would pull through. She was having a hard time with this because when here husband was at work the cat was what gave her companie so she had come to love it very much. So she had asked us to pray for her cat to make it. She said if he cat pulls through she would come to church. So we were a little sceptic of this but we had faith that the lord would answer are prayer and help this lady come and see the path that she needs to be on. She we ask the Lord to help her out and later that day we got a call from the lady and she said that the cat had made it and was doing well. She also told us she would see us at church tomarrow. When we got to church she was there and she told us that when she was on her way there that she felt like this was were she needed to be. So i have learned that the Lord will answer everyones know matter what is going on in there lives. He loves his children and he wants to help them in every way he can to make it back to live with him agen some day.

How can the Book of Mormon help you?

In my own life i have found that the Book of Mormon (BOM) can help me answer questions that i have and along with the bible. But in my own studies of the BOM i have found a Scripture that helps me every day of my life and if i am having a hard time or thinking i cant do something i think of it and it is (1 Nephi 3:7"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I ^awill go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.") I know that if the lord ask you to keep his commandments you can do it. He has asked us to all keep them and I know that it is not always easy to be a light to the world and to do what Christ would want you to do but as we learn from that Scripture is that he doesn't ask us to do any thing that we cant. He will always make a way for us to accomplish the things that he would want us to do. I know that to be true and i have seen it happen in my life.