the commandments are our outline for life.

I was reading the the bible the other day and i come to this scripture in 1 john 2:1-6

 "1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. ^aAnd if any man sin, we have an ^badvocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

 2 And he is the ^apropitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole ^bworld.

 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we ^akeep his commandments.

 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his ^acommandments, is a ^bliar, and the truth is not in him.

 5 But whoso ^akeepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are ^bin him.

6 He that saith he ^aabideth in him ought himself also so to ^bwalk, even as he walked."
here is a quote from President Thomas S Monson that he said on november 2011 about the  commandments

""Although the world has changed, the laws of God remain constant. They have not changed; they will not change. The Ten Commandments are just that—commandments. They are not suggestions. They are every bit as requisite today as they were when God gave them to the children of Israel. If we but listen, we hear the echo of God’s voice, speaking to us here and now:

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. …

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. …

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. …

“Honour thy father and thy mother. …

“Thou shalt not kill.

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.

“Thou shalt not steal.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness. …

“Thou shalt not covet.”²

Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable. It is found not only in the Ten Commandments but also in the Sermon on the Mount, given to us by the Savior when He walked upon the earth. It is found throughout His teachings. It is found in the words of modern revelation.

Our Father in Heaven is the same yesterday, today, and forever......In this world where nearly everything seems to be changing, His constancy is something on which we can rely, an anchor to which we can hold fast and be safe, lest we be swept away into uncharted waters....My brothers and sisters, I declare to you, however, that there is nothing which can bring more joy into our lives or more peace to our souls than the Spirit which can come to us as we follow the Savior and keep the commandments. That Spirit cannot be present at the kinds of activities in which so much of the world participates. The Apostle Paul declared the truth: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”⁴ The term natural man can refer to any of us if we allow ourselves to be so."" Stand in Holy Places Thomas S Monson President of the Church

I know that keeping the commandments of God truely Bring us happyness i have seen it in my own life and i know if it through the experiances that i have had and the Holy Spirit Testifying to me that the commandments are from god lets live them more fully in our lives.

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The past can hurt but we can learn from it.

lion king is a great movie if you look closely you can learn alot from it. just like here in this little clip. the mistakes that we make in life causes feelings of hurt and greaf but we learn through them and we come out stronger. that is the great thing about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we excerice faith in Jesus Christ and go forward with our lives we feel that we have the strength to repent of the mistakes that we have done. in mosiah 26:29-31 we read "Therefore I say unto you, Go; and whosoever transgresseth against me, him shall ye ^ajudge ^baccording to the sins which he has committed; and if he ^cconfess his sins before thee and me, and ^drepenteth in the sincerity of his heart, him shall ye ^eforgive, and I will forgive him also.

 30 Yea, and ^aas often as my people ^brepent will I forgive them their trespasses against me.

 31 And ye shall also ^aforgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his ^bneighbor’s trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation."

http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/26.29-31?lang=eng#28

moroni 8:24-26 we read

 24 Behold, my son, this thing ought not to be; for ^arepentance is unto them that are under condemnation and under the curse of a broken law.

 25 And the first fruits of ^arepentance is ^bbaptism; and baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments; and the fulfilling the commandments bringeth ^cremission of sins;

 26 And the remission of sins bringeth ^ameekness, and lowliness of heart; and because of meekness and lowliness of heart cometh the visitation of the ^bHoly Ghost, which ^cComforter ^dfilleth with hope and perfect ^elove, which love endureth by ^fdiligence unto ^gprayer, until the end shall come, when all the ^hsaints shall dwell with God.

 http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/8.24-26?lang=eng#23

then we go down to the waters of baptism to have our sins washed away. then recieve the holy ghost. then endure to then end as simba did he changed his life and got back to what he should have been doing. and he did alot of good. lets all remember that "you can eather run from it or... learn from it." lets do the learning from it.

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little things of left alone do the build up.

The other day my Companion and I were riding our bikes down a road to go see a person that we talked to the other day when we passed this tree at First I thought "Why in world would anyone put Bricks there of all places?" as I looked closer I could see that the Bricks had been there for some time now and it would not be to much longer before the tree grew enough to cover the bricks. I thought of how when the person that put the bricks in the tree they fit in there loosely and could easily be talked out but now many years latter they can not be taken out except cutting deep into the tree to remove the once little seemingly little thing that  could be so easily fixed. 

Then I thought of all the times that i have let little things that i let build up inside of me and after a while from the out side you could not see the anger and the ill feelings but with in they were still there. It was not easy for me to get those feelings out because they had been covered up and had become over grown but though it was painful to let it all go the feeling of peace that came after letting it all go. well i can't put to words how much better it felt and feel now. it was through the atonement that i was healed spiritually. the process was so worth it.

The same thing applies when we sin and don't repent (change) those sins get grown over and we come to get use to them and we forget about them for the most part but we still feel the pain from time to time. but we tend to bury it deeper and allow it to get grown over. then comes the storm or trial in our lives which causes us to break then we change and it is most painful. but through the atonement of Jesus Christ as we repent and change our selves we become clean. I love this saying by Elder Holland given in April 1, 2012

"I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent in this parable, but however late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.

Whether you are not yet of our faith or were with us once and have not remained, there is nothing in either case that you have done that cannot be undone. There is no problem which you cannot overcome. There is no dream that in the unfolding of time and eternity cannot yet be realized. Even if you feel you are the lost and last laborer of the eleventh hour, the Lord of the vineyard still stands beckoning. “Come boldly [to] the throne of grace,”³ and fall at the feet of the Holy One of Israel. Come and feast “without money and without price”⁴ at the table of the Lord."

" It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor. Don’t delay. It’s getting late."

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/the-laborers-in-the-vineyard?lang=eng

It is so well said in the last paragraph lets not delay in repenting of the things that we need to so that we can stand before the bar of Christ when the day comes. I know that letting the little things that build up hurts us in the long run. but through the atonement we can be forgiven and our burdens become lighter.

http://mormon.org/plan-of-happiness/#what-jesus-christ-did-for-you

Though that i had about the atonement of Jesus Christ

Today i was reading in the Book Of Mormon in Helaman 5 verses 9& 12 really stood out to me  9 "O remember, remember, my sons, the ^awords which king Benjamin spake unto his people; yea, remember that there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the ^batoning blood of Jesus Christ, who shall come; yea, remember that he cometh to ^credeem the ^dworld.

 12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the ^arock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your ^bfoundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty ^cstorm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."
As i read it it stood out to me just how important the atonement of Jesus Christ in and having faith that though his atonement we can become clean from our sins which will allow us to return to live with Heavenly Father.
I know that the atonement is real i have felt the cleansing power in my life as i have had faith in Jesus Christ and through faith it lead me to repent of my sins that i had done. The relief that i felt i can not fully put in to words but i know that you can come to feel the cleansing power of the atonement on your lives.
 here is a link that you can learn more about the atonement http://mormon.org/plan-of-happiness/#what-jesus-christ-did-for-you

To know the unknown about life

Met a man today that was down he had limited contact with his wife and that she only came over to give him food.  He had three heart attacks the last one almost killed him. As I talked with him I noticed that he did not seem to have much hope for the future in his life and that he just wanted to pass on and die and have it done with he said that he was not afraid to die because he did not fear the unknown.

Then I thought of the great comfort that the scriptures bring to me by teaching me about what will happen after this life because it is not unknown where we will go after this life just not very many people know about it. This life here on this earth is but a speck in time. I know that we will all live again after we pass from this earth and that we go to a waiting place tell the Judgment day then we shall all be Resurrected (reunite with our bodies after we die) and that we will receive a place to go according to what we choose in this life as we lives.  http://mormon.org/plan-of-happiness/#what-happens-when-i-die

I Know this and it has helped me out so much through the deaths that have happened here lately in my own family it has pulled me through those deepest darkest moments when i thought that i could go no farther.

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Mud Holes and life

The other day while i was biking down the road i saw a truck that was covered in mud which reminded me of when my family would go mudding on our four wheelers in the ditches back home in the spring time when the water was turned out of the ditches so that they could dry out to get a skid loader in and clean out the growth from the last year of watering.
My brother and i would take this great chance to go on our four wheelers and play in the mud. as those who have done any mudding at all there are times when you do not make it to the end of the mud run that you started in that was most often the case with me and my brother because we were doing  it with Two wheel drive four wheelers but we had just as much fun though.
 When we would get stuck and the four wheeler would not move no more because we buried it up to the axle and it got high centered. one of us would grab a rope ( which some times we for got because we were just to excited to go do this) walk to were he could throw the end of the rope to the me while i sat on the bike and then i would reach over and tie it to the front end of my four wheeler while he tied it to the back of his four wheeler. he would then pull me out and then it was his turn.
we would do this for w while then go home and wash the four wheelers off and go do other things on the farm.
As i though about it i though of how many times we in our own lives go though life thinking that we are having fun going through the mud and then before we know it or with out realizing it we are stuck in a hard spot and we can't move forward or backwards and we feel bad because of were we are now. I have had that happen to me in my life and sure that you have to. so how do we get out of this. just as my brother was there to help me when i needed to get out because i was stuck. The Savior is there to help us he has said it himself and through his Prophet in the past.

3 Nephi 9:14 Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will ^acome unto me ye shall have ^beternal life. Behold, mine ^carm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me.  
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Moroni 6:8 But as oft as they repented and sought forgiveness, with real intent, they were forgiven.
we can be forgiven through repentance of our mistakes and can be washed clean through the atonement of Jesus Christ. this comes through praying to heavenly father asking to for him to forgive you of the things that you have done wrong and not doing those things again that is part of repentance it changing and not doing what you did wrong again.



This I Testify because I have felt the cleansing power of the atonement it has changed my life and it is there for you to partake in also.

choices and the out come of those.

The other day i made the choice to bike down this one road with my Friend as we were headed down the road we got most of the way toward we needed to go when i ran over a nail and it popped my tire i had the choice to get mad and frustrated or laugh at it and make the mood lighter i choose to make the mood lighter and laugh at it.  so it is all about choices

Choices there are so many to make in a day. the choice to eat an egg for breakfast or to have a donut. we are surrounded by choices that we have to make each and every day of our lives.

Now some of the choices that we make may not have a bad out come right off hand or in the near future but if we keep making the choice to have a donut each day for breakfast it will catch up to you in a hurry. the same principle applies with the choices that we make spiritually. when we choose to keep the commandments we see and increase level spiritual and we are able to recognize the answers to our prayer easier and faster. but just as of we eat the donut each morning or break the commandments of our heavenly father we draw our selves away from him and the spirit leaves us until we come back and seek for it to be with us again.
If we keep going down the path that draws us farther and farther away from our heavenly father we feel lonely and feel somethings missing from our lives. and we choose to do that.
but we also have the choice to keep making the right choices and following the lord and as we do that no matter where you are you can draw closer to our heavenly father. which is called Repentance. when we do this we come close to our heavenly father and we feel of his spirit more and receive blessing from him.
let us all make the choice to draw closer to our loving heavenly father who loves us so much and wants to help us in our choices.