What i I Know What is True

I am nearing the end of mission and i am very so thank full the chance to serve the lord this last two years. The lord truly do qualify you for the work, he inspired, uplifts, and builds you to new heights. By the spirit of the lord i have come to know the truth of God what he wishes for me and others. Through study, prayer, and apply the gospel in my life. I know that it is true, and it will bless any one life. Also the gospel has the power to resolve the questions of our soul.

For this may be my last post on my blog. So i felt that i should end with my testimony of what i know what is true unto the all the ends of the earth. I speak to you in type but i hope and pray the the spirit of the lord will com firm to your heart and mind the truthfulness of what speak.

The first thing is bear my testimony of is that God is our loving Heavenly Father which will answer the heartfelt and righteous prayers of our heart. Pray is the first step in to truly coming to know that God is real. On my mission i have gained a profound respect for pray. Many of time i have wondered is any one listening to me is their any one out there. God almost always answers our prayers as the arising of the sun. A slow increase of light. Until the brightest day. Dint give up on pray or God if it doesn't seem to you like nothing is happening.The lord requires the heart, and we give him our heart by our consistently. I Know God lives and loves each one of us. No one is abandoned my the lord. Only we can abandoned Him. If you wish to come to know God and feel his influence more in your life. The first step is to go before him in humble pray.

Next is that Jesus Christ is and was the son of God, the Redeemer of all mankind, the savior of the world. By the virtue of the fall we are a fallen people. Death of the body and the spirit has an affect on all of us. God knew this would happened and knew that man would need a savior to save them form the fall . This is the life of mission of Jesus Christ. He suffer and died for the sins of all man kind. This is not all he also took upon him the pains, sickness, and affections of us all also. No matter you are going though the lord Jesus Christ has been their and knows how you feel. In his atonement will can find the healing power we need. Jesus has the healing wings the heal any wound. All he asks us is that we come unto him and to follow him. If you seek peace and forgives from God. Come unto Christ by learning and living his Gospel. The lord can and will help you get though any thing you face in life. I know the Jesus Christ that once suffered for the sins of World lives. He loves you and wants to help and heal us all.

I know that God spoke to man but also that he speaks today. In the 1820's a  young boy searching for spiritual guidance on what church was the true church. He look to find the true gospel and power that Christ himself brought to the earth. In study and pray he as directed by lord. He went to grove of trees behind his home. In humble and sincerely pray to God. In his own words he tell us what happened that day. " I saw a pillar of ^clight exactly over my head, above the brightness of the ^dsun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. When the light rested upon me I ^bsaw two ^cPersonages, whose brightness and ^dglory defy all description, ^estanding above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My ^fBeloved ^gSon. Hear Him!"  Some happened that not  for happened many hundreds of years. God himself and his son Jesus Christ appeared to man and communed to him. Later that young man  Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet and was to resorted the true and competed gospel of Jesus Christ back to the earth. Giving us every doctrine and  principle pertaining to life and salvation also the that same priesthood power  that was part of Christ's church. I know that Joseph smith was the prophet of the lord and that the church he reorganized back the earth is the lords church.

Last i bear my testimony of the Book of Mormon. it is truly the record of ancient prophets in America. It is a  volume of holy scripture comparable the bible. In the Book of Mormon contains the fullness of he Gospel. All men that will prayerfully read it will feel the spirit of the lord in their heard, will draw closer to God, and  will find the answer to life's many questions.  I know that it is a book of scripture at all men will profit from reading it. The book has guided me thought out my mission specially i the hard times.

Forgiven Even Those We Dont Want To

No one goes thought out life without any scratches or wounds to body or soul. It is a natural part of life all are born into a fallen world. The great thing about the gospel is Christ came to redeem men from the fall and be uplifted to heaven. For that is the life and mission of Christ for the immortality and Eternal life of man. This comes by and thought the atonement of Jesus Christ.

I was once a man told me in tears that the two people he hurt the most was his wife and his first son. This had a huge affect on me. I ponder  on this many times. Then i thought this two people we spend some most time and are the first experience in this field. Many times of stress, anger, frustration we may make remark or do action that we may not do other wise do or say. I have seen that the most important principle of young families is forgiveness.

 Maintain a happy marriages and family is life's hardest  challenges in life. Being new at  it just makes it even harder. Cause all a now you are required to use skill and talent that you have never had to use before. So all family's and marriages will have a bumpy road,  have unforeseen curves, and some time stops along the way . this is all part the great dance of life.

The question is how you respond to when thing turn in wrong way. What do you do when your spouse or family member says or does thing and hurts both physical and emotional.  Remember we all fall short of the glory of God and are sinners.  So  in affect we are all hurting each other, and need to repent. If wish for forgiveness for my actions i must for forgive them for there actions against me.

To forgive is move on. Not to put it  into a chest of weapons to us against them in a later time. Forgive is forgetting and putting the past behind us  and going on. This will heal the wounds of any marriage and family.  I have seen it many of times. Yes if a spouse it is abusive you are to get away for the problem. But we are required to forgive all men. Even those we don't want to.

When voices rise, hard words said, anger in your heard and mind. Take the time to cool down, don't throw all the hard work in family and marriage for just  a pasting remark that is might hurt. Its not worth the pain and suffering  to said or do some thing is heat of the moment that will only cause even more pain and suffering.  Remember Christ showed us the way. By learning of him and trying to be like him will bring the great peace, joy, and happiness in family life.

4 Principles of Repentance

Yesterday i posted about repentance. We all fall short the glory of God and have need to repent. No one accountable is excused from this needed act.

Many of us know the steps of repentance and have repeatedly walk its path. For most of us we will walk this path every single day of our lives. True lasting repentance is not done of one act, but it the sum of a life time of righteous living. As like babies learning to walk we will stumble, fall, and fail and at times. This don't mean we are worthless and should just give up. It means quit the opposite. We are all Children of a loving God who is full of grace and mercy for the repent. Repenting is hard, takes work,  and take time. Thou we should put off repentance, so be surprised if you struggle with.  Their is war inside our heart and soul. The great battle between the spiritual and the carnal. Repent is yeiding to the spirit and putting off the natural  man.


On that note here are for principles of repentance that i have found to bless my life.

1. Humble, To repent is sense is to be humble. To look the lord and say "you are right lord I do need to do better". To be humble is to accept the need of repentance. We must put off all pride, and give our whole heart to God holding nothing back.
2. sincerely. To truly repent require something inside yourself. It requires our heart and mind having a desire to repent. Question yourself why do you repent is to please the lord or man. God now the desire and sincerely of our heart for that is where he looks. If you aren't scenery the lord will hold back the divine forgiveness
3. practice. repentance take time. We must to our best to avoid the sins that we easily do. To change is hard and requires us to work on it every day. To repent and receiving divine forgiveness is one the great gifts we can receive in this life. Some times we suffer with the memory and remorse of our sins long after we have commented them.In the the church we us the phase "repentance process", This is true. It is process some times takes long then we wish. The important factor is  we desire to change and improve. The change of heart are to have in the repentance process is show by a desire to sin no more. Yes will be tempted and some times we give into temptation. If you want and are tyring to avoid sin. You are in the process of repentance.
4. love. Very thing about the gospel is fueled and motivated my love. In John 3:15 we read   For ^aGod so ^bloved the ^cworld, that he ^dgave his ^eonly begotten ^fSon, that whosoever ^gbelieveth in him should not perish, but have ^heverlasting ⁱlife.  God and Jesus loved us some much that They paid the ultimate sacrifice. The forgiveness that we seek is given to us by the love and grace of Jesus Christ. If love is so important for them should it not lead our repentance process. If we truly love Jesus would we not follow the commandments he set forth and follow his example.True and deep love for God is what will lead us to to true lasting repentance and in turn Feeling the love of the savior more in our life. Also Christ taught the need of o loving one other. Said it would be the sign of the disciple. Love those around us and accept them for who they are. The people around us may make mistakes that hurt us. But at the same time we are also are making mistakes. We must love all for we all are in need of forgiveness. Love like repentance means their are greater things ahead.

Clean the Wounds of The Soul

Wounds are a normal and natural part of life. The wounds if want to talk about are both physical and spiritual. We all have had flesh wounds cuts, scape's,  or even slaceration . Flesh it self is weak and is easy damaged if not protected. Much like our spirit or soul, its is to hurt or damage it, cause to flesh or the natural man in us we easy fall into sin.


I always remember those days as a kid when fell off the bike, tripped, or just got hurt. I would run to mom, then she would look at it and judge the best treatment. This i  was always afraid of, cause  what she might do. We all the know to clean cut well you many time us alcohol wipes. That what i feared most, cause  yes it cleans the wound but  burns and stings. When get cut it like in the cause to get infected making it worse and protect it form healing. So you clean the wound. Yes it hurt but its worth it and is need, being pure and clean is always better then being dirty and unclean physical and spiritual.

Healing its better then letting the wound infect

I am amazed at the Savior’s encircling arms of mercy and love for the repentant, no matter how selfish the forsaken sin. I testify that the Savior is able and eager to forgive our sins. Except for the sins of those few who choose perdition after having known a fullness, there is no sin that cannot be forgiven. ¹⁵ What a marvelous privilege for each of us to turn away from our sins and to come unto Christ. Divine forgiveness is one of the sweetest fruits of the gospel, removing guilt and pain from our hearts and replacing them with joy and peace of conscience. Jesus declares, “Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?” ¹⁶

For most, repentance is more a journey than a one-time event. It is not easy. To change is difficult. It requires running into the wind, swimming upstream. Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.”As if we were climbing a tree-covered mountain, at times we don’t see our progress until we get closer to the top and look back from the high ridges. Don’t be discouraged. If you are striving and working to repent, you are in the process of repenting.

So what are the steps to repentance

1. we must realize the sins and desire to repent
2. confuse to God in pray and when need to others
3. when possible repair and replace the wrongs
4. forsake the sin or to avoid the doing the sin again
5. try our best to keep the commandments.

Yes repentance hurt at first. Over time as you repent you will find the guilt, shame, and pain from our sins will be taken form our heart. Fulling our heart with joy,  peace to our conscience, and  the divine gift of forgiveness.

The Spirit of God Can't Be Stoped

The cause of truth shall forth unto the whole world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints is the God chosen church on the earth today that contain the priesthood authority of God and all the truths of heaven. The prophet Joseph Smith once said, “The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.” 

The video below show the the grow of the church, remember the church was reorganized in 1830's and this video was made in 06. As of last year the total member of the church in the 14 million. The dots stands for a stake. A stake is a group of congregations, a congregation is about 200, and their is about 7 congregations per stake. So that can give you idea of the growth of the Church. This not a man's church. It is the lord work and his church.

Three Prinples of Revelation

To receive revelation for God is one of life's most difficult task. Many voices try to cover up the voice the spirit. Some today even go so far as to say that their so now such things as revelations. In the scriptures is the truth about this, for the scriptures hold the answer life. In the Book of Mormon in Mormon 9 we read the truth of the this matter.

 I speak unto you who ^adeny the revelations of God, and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the ^binterpretation of tongues;

For do we not read that God is the ^asame ^byesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no ^cvariableness neither shadow of changing?

If God revealed things anciently would he not do it today at the time when we need him the most. I know God lives that he spoke and He will speak today if have faith, ask, and listen.

Now here are three principle upon personal revelation is based. First off personal revelation  is guidance form God to us to to help us find our way in life. And a parent or leader we may receive revelation according to those we server and have duty over. Not to control them, but to help and support them along the path to eternal life. So there are the three principles.

1. We must first be humble and submissive. in Isaiah 55 we read  For my ^athoughts are not ^byour thoughts, neither are your ^cways my ^dways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ^aways ^bhigher than your ways, and my ^cthoughts than your thoughts. We have to will to accept the will of our heavenly father in all things. Ina  way let go of our will, thoughts, and desires  to find the higher way.
2. then we most study and ponder the things we seek.  Like the rising of the sun, the light and glory of the sun doesn't come at once of over time piece by piece to the glory of the noon day. So it is with revelation we must give our effort and listen to the spirit. In modern revelation God taught Joseph Smith. Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.  But, behold, I say unto you, that you must ^astudy it out in your ^bmind; then you must ^cask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your ^dbosom shall ^eburn within you; therefore, you shall ^ffeel that it is right.  Pondering invites the whispering of the Holy spirit to our heart and mind. When you ponder you are to stop the race of life and be still. To stop and meditate listening to the thoughts and feeling that come to our mind.
3. Lastly all revelation is based on our sincerely or real intent. Those mean that we would act upon the revelation given. If we don't have true desire or willingness to act why would God tell us. All its would do is condemn us. You must have a strong desire to know and receive before it will be give to you.

The Eternal Nature of Families

God us places in family for a reason. In that social group we learn the most import and basic principles of life and salvation. The spirit of young ones are cultivated in loving and caring environment. We build loving bonds and surpassed much the chaos of life. This bonds are some the strongest we can have in life.  You can change who your friends but you can change who your Family is. So you better make the best of  it.

The question comes my mind is "Why would he put us in this family if only they will be torn apart by disagreements, sorrow, and even death". The answer is not of man teaching or ideas, but of divine principle of Heaven.

 First death is not the end of our existence, Our spirits or eternal they were before birth and will be after death. The soul will home to that God who gave them life. To await the resurrection and judgement of all mankind. For those were faithful and valiant  in a testimony of Christ will be with God though out the eternities.

Also the family it self is  an eternal thing. Many times in the scriptures God i refers to as the Father of  our Spirit or Heavenly Father. This statement is  more true then many thing. For God is true creator and Father to our Soul. Before we were born He created our spirit, was our spirit father,  and were part of a spiritual family.  As are born into the world we are give mortal family's to help us learn and grow.  This family don't have to be limited to this mortal life. Though Christ are able to gave salvation and live after this life God. In Matthew 16: 18-19  we read of Christ giving the sealing powers to peter the apostle.

 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this ^arock I will build my ^bchurch; and the gates of ^chell shall not ^dprevail against it.

 19 And I will ^agive unto thee the ^bkeys of the ^ckingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt ^dbind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

With this sealing power peter had the power to seal or bond families though out the eternities. Also they live faithful the gospel their family can and will beond the grave. To be in family with the ones we love the most in place of were their is on sorrow or anger. What a great bless! All our family can be together forever.