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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Darkness from light
I watched a mormon message where there was a quote that stated darkness and light can't occupay the same space at the same time. That pharse hasn't left my mind my mind as I studied the assignment this week. I guess it was a light bulb moment, I always thought light came first because God created it first and then darkness was just there as opposite counter point. I never put much thought to it honestly, the scriptures say God separated the light from the darkness and I left it at that but there is so much more. Yes I realized Christ symbolized the light for he is the light of world leading way back to him. I also got to thinking about how light and darkness makes me feel. Now I know its not the same for everyone im sharing my perspective. Light is comforting, reassuring, I can see where Im going and where Ive been. Light is clean, pure, happy. Darkness is mysterious, cold, threatening, overwhelming, concealing, shameful, scary. So its clear their opposites serving different purposes.I realized those purposes are to teach us what wrong and right feel like. We need to know the differences between right and wong aka christ and satan. Christ is the light shining over us in our lifes journey. Sometimes in life our lights go out and are surrounded in darkness that is when we turn to christ to lead us out of the darkness and helps us refill our lamps. So yes in this life we need both light and darkness but we can choose which one we allow into our lives and hearts and rely on christ when we are overshadowed by darkneshttps://youtu.be/Aup9M5HZawI is the video address please watch
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Preparing our spiritual weapns Jarom 1-9
1 Now behold, I, Jarom, write a few words according to the commandment of my father, Enos, that our genealogy may be kept.
2 And as these plates are small, and as these things are written for the intent of the benefit of our brethren the Lamanites, wherefore, it must needs be that I write a little; but I shall not write the things of my prophesying, nor of my revelations. For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? I say unto you, Yea; and this sufficeth me.
3 Behold, it is expedient that much should be done among this people, because of the hardness of their hearts, and the deafness of their ears, and the blindness of their minds, and the stiffness of their necks; nevertheless, God is exceedingly merciful unto them, and has not as yet swept them off from the face of the land.
4 And there are many among us who have many revelations, for they are not all stiffnecked. And as many as are not stiffnecked and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit, which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to their faith.
5 And now, behold, two hundred years had passed away, and the people of Nephi had waxed strong in the land. They observed to keep the law of Moses and the sabbath day holy unto the Lord. And they profaned not; neither did they blaspheme. And the laws of the land were exceedingly strict.
6 And they were scattered upon much of the face of the land, and the Lamanites also. And they were exceedingly more numerous than were they of the Nephites; and they loved murder and would drink the blood of beasts.
7 And it came to pass that they came many times against us, the Nephites, to battle. But our kings and our leaders were mighty men in the faith of the Lord; and they taught the people the ways of the Lord; wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance.
8 And we multiplied exceedingly, and spread upon the face of the land, and became exceedingly rich in gold, and in silver, and in precious things, and in fine workmanship of wood, in buildings, and in machinery, and also in iron and copper, and brass and steel, making all manner of tools of every kind to till the ground, and weapons of war—yea, the sharp pointed arrow, and the quiver, and the dart, and the javelin, and all preparations for war.
9 And thus being prepared to meet the Lamanites, they did not prosper against us. But the word of the Lord was verified, which he spake unto our fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land. I love these scriptures because it tells us how the nephites beat the lamanites but the reciepe on how to spiritually prepare for adversity or temptation. 1. obedience to Gods commandments. 2- industralized the land by building buildings, farms, fortress of defense. 3. Made weapons of war. 4. Listened and obeyed to their spiritual leaders. 5. Prepared for the worst while expecting the best. The nephites put the lord first in all things and trusted in the lords promise he made to their fathers and so when lamanites came to battle they were ready spiritually and temporally. Today we can follow their example by living by faith.we don't have to do anything spectalur all we need to do is put the lord first. We need to not only read the scriptures but follow their example of faith and obedience. The more time we spent following the gospel the more prepared we will be spiritually and temporally. its doing the everyday things like obedience to the lords commandments, listening and following the prophet and apostles, read our scriptures, fulifll our callings faithfully, create a christ centered home, daily prayer and fasting. preparing for the worst while expecting the best. My list sounds similar to Jaroms list because its the same doctrine being taught just to a different generation. The gospel is the same in every generation and if we believe in ourselves and trust in the lord we can achieve miracles wrought by faith. I know these scriptures are true and that the doctrine taught is true and for us to learn from. I know not everyone reading this shares my faith but I just want to testify of Christ and enourage those who read this post feel the love the savior has for them because he does love us all. Thank you for reading
2 And as these plates are small, and as these things are written for the intent of the benefit of our brethren the Lamanites, wherefore, it must needs be that I write a little; but I shall not write the things of my prophesying, nor of my revelations. For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? I say unto you, Yea; and this sufficeth me.
3 Behold, it is expedient that much should be done among this people, because of the hardness of their hearts, and the deafness of their ears, and the blindness of their minds, and the stiffness of their necks; nevertheless, God is exceedingly merciful unto them, and has not as yet swept them off from the face of the land.
4 And there are many among us who have many revelations, for they are not all stiffnecked. And as many as are not stiffnecked and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit, which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to their faith.
5 And now, behold, two hundred years had passed away, and the people of Nephi had waxed strong in the land. They observed to keep the law of Moses and the sabbath day holy unto the Lord. And they profaned not; neither did they blaspheme. And the laws of the land were exceedingly strict.
6 And they were scattered upon much of the face of the land, and the Lamanites also. And they were exceedingly more numerous than were they of the Nephites; and they loved murder and would drink the blood of beasts.
7 And it came to pass that they came many times against us, the Nephites, to battle. But our kings and our leaders were mighty men in the faith of the Lord; and they taught the people the ways of the Lord; wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance.
8 And we multiplied exceedingly, and spread upon the face of the land, and became exceedingly rich in gold, and in silver, and in precious things, and in fine workmanship of wood, in buildings, and in machinery, and also in iron and copper, and brass and steel, making all manner of tools of every kind to till the ground, and weapons of war—yea, the sharp pointed arrow, and the quiver, and the dart, and the javelin, and all preparations for war.
9 And thus being prepared to meet the Lamanites, they did not prosper against us. But the word of the Lord was verified, which he spake unto our fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land. I love these scriptures because it tells us how the nephites beat the lamanites but the reciepe on how to spiritually prepare for adversity or temptation. 1. obedience to Gods commandments. 2- industralized the land by building buildings, farms, fortress of defense. 3. Made weapons of war. 4. Listened and obeyed to their spiritual leaders. 5. Prepared for the worst while expecting the best. The nephites put the lord first in all things and trusted in the lords promise he made to their fathers and so when lamanites came to battle they were ready spiritually and temporally. Today we can follow their example by living by faith.we don't have to do anything spectalur all we need to do is put the lord first. We need to not only read the scriptures but follow their example of faith and obedience. The more time we spent following the gospel the more prepared we will be spiritually and temporally. its doing the everyday things like obedience to the lords commandments, listening and following the prophet and apostles, read our scriptures, fulifll our callings faithfully, create a christ centered home, daily prayer and fasting. preparing for the worst while expecting the best. My list sounds similar to Jaroms list because its the same doctrine being taught just to a different generation. The gospel is the same in every generation and if we believe in ourselves and trust in the lord we can achieve miracles wrought by faith. I know these scriptures are true and that the doctrine taught is true and for us to learn from. I know not everyone reading this shares my faith but I just want to testify of Christ and enourage those who read this post feel the love the savior has for them because he does love us all. Thank you for reading
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
It has been a challenging week.
March 5, 2012
this week has been hard, we have been dropped by two investigators this week, one wasn't progressing so that wasn't a surprise and one doesn't want us over since sister Bentley is gone and i didn't develop a good relationship with her so she doesn't trust me and she wasn't really progressing as well but had great potential to and a less active we have been teaching told us not to come back anymore either so we have been tracking and contacting less actives, we got two referrals who we are trying to contact and met a less active and her husband who said we could teach him the lessons, he had the lessons before and never finished them and they are a young couple expecting a baby any day
now and are super nice and i am really excited about teaching them once they let us know their schedule since they are super busy and probably wont teach until after they have their baby, we also met two less active sisters who are super nice, one is older with grown kids and they do war reenactments and was telling us all about that and offered to teach us how to knit and welcomed us back to her home before they move which they are in the process now but only the early stages and the other one is young early thirty's who is super nice and let us come over and talked about her hobbies (she likes doll houses) and basic get to know you questions, she still reads her scriptures and prays everyday but is kinda a hermit and socially awkward so she doesn't come to church but she told us to get her a list of activities the ward is doing and depending on her work schedule she will come and said we are welcome to comeback and we had dinner at a members house and
after dinner we made soap which was really fun and she gave us the finished product on Sunday. i am in the choir at church which is really fun and its hard since i cant read music notes but its interesting, have a great week. don't forget I'm doing this for you as well as for me and the lord. Jenni
this week has been hard, we have been dropped by two investigators this week, one wasn't progressing so that wasn't a surprise and one doesn't want us over since sister Bentley is gone and i didn't develop a good relationship with her so she doesn't trust me and she wasn't really progressing as well but had great potential to and a less active we have been teaching told us not to come back anymore either so we have been tracking and contacting less actives, we got two referrals who we are trying to contact and met a less active and her husband who said we could teach him the lessons, he had the lessons before and never finished them and they are a young couple expecting a baby any day
now and are super nice and i am really excited about teaching them once they let us know their schedule since they are super busy and probably wont teach until after they have their baby, we also met two less active sisters who are super nice, one is older with grown kids and they do war reenactments and was telling us all about that and offered to teach us how to knit and welcomed us back to her home before they move which they are in the process now but only the early stages and the other one is young early thirty's who is super nice and let us come over and talked about her hobbies (she likes doll houses) and basic get to know you questions, she still reads her scriptures and prays everyday but is kinda a hermit and socially awkward so she doesn't come to church but she told us to get her a list of activities the ward is doing and depending on her work schedule she will come and said we are welcome to comeback and we had dinner at a members house and
after dinner we made soap which was really fun and she gave us the finished product on Sunday. i am in the choir at church which is really fun and its hard since i cant read music notes but its interesting, have a great week. don't forget I'm doing this for you as well as for me and the lord. Jenni
Sis. Bently going home.
February 27, 2012
well sister Bentley went home this week her mission is over and it was hard saying goodbye and miss her like a missing limb but i got a new companion named sister salmon who is really nice and i am the second greenie she has followed up trained since she followed up sister Bentley's greenie before me named sister luker so salmon has had sister Bentley's last two greenies.sister Bentley is doing well at home and is staying in contact with everyone. i have been showing sister salmon st Charles and our investigators, she was serving in champagn Illinois so this is her first area other than that and we have done a lot of tracking this week and stop by for less actives, this transfer was huge so there was different people going different directions. there are three elders and one sister missionary to our district so there is me and one elder from our district still here and now there are two sets of sister
missionaries in my district which is fun. i did a phone interview with a girl named Hannah who needed to interview a Mormon for a project for her religion class and so i answered her questions about our religion and she asked some really good questions that stumped me but it went well and she will be emailing me her report so i can make sure everything is right before she turns it in. we are going to see our most progressing investigator twice a week which i am excited about at a members home, this week has been crazy busy. Jenni
well sister Bentley went home this week her mission is over and it was hard saying goodbye and miss her like a missing limb but i got a new companion named sister salmon who is really nice and i am the second greenie she has followed up trained since she followed up sister Bentley's greenie before me named sister luker so salmon has had sister Bentley's last two greenies.sister Bentley is doing well at home and is staying in contact with everyone. i have been showing sister salmon st Charles and our investigators, she was serving in champagn Illinois so this is her first area other than that and we have done a lot of tracking this week and stop by for less actives, this transfer was huge so there was different people going different directions. there are three elders and one sister missionary to our district so there is me and one elder from our district still here and now there are two sets of sister
missionaries in my district which is fun. i did a phone interview with a girl named Hannah who needed to interview a Mormon for a project for her religion class and so i answered her questions about our religion and she asked some really good questions that stumped me but it went well and she will be emailing me her report so i can make sure everything is right before she turns it in. we are going to see our most progressing investigator twice a week which i am excited about at a members home, this week has been crazy busy. Jenni
PD fun at the Bently dealership.
last Monday we went to the Bentley dealership which was fun sister Bentley has been wanting to go her whole mission and was so excited, we went with two other sisters and two elders and the sales people ignored us so we just walked around taking pictures of the cars, Saturday was our ward valentines day party with the Spanish branch who shares our building, it was fun they had a contest where two couples had to eat an apple the fastest without using their hands so they looked like they were kissing and then a couple teenagers went one on one with grapes instead of apples and the kids really got into it and i tried to take pictures but
they didn't turn out so i recorded it the best i could and there was dancing and i got a video of brother and sister Larsen dancing to swing music, sister Larsen is sister Bentley are best friends and they have us over all the time and met a potential investigator there and got one of our less actives there so it was fun and the kids loved it, and we made flower barrettes at sister Larsen's after the party which were cute, me and sister Bentley wore ours on Sunday.
Feburary 9,2012
this week has been an interesting week, we had exchanges on Wednesday and Thursday which was a lot of fun since i got to be with each sister and got to learn from them and show them our area and who we are teaching. we got to see one of our investigators who we couldn't get a hold of all week so i was pretty excited about that and i got to teach the restoration to a part member family while the sisters were here and i was really excited about it because i thought it went great and although we didn't get through the whole lesson the spirit was there.one of our investigators dropped us which was hard since he really didn't try to find out for himself if it was true. i learned that i was trying to give the lord back my agency so i wouldn't have to make a decision that might be wrong, i didn't have confidence in my judgement so i was afraid to make decisions
knowing i had no idea what the consequences might be so the sisters really comforted me and told me that i couldn't let fear rule my heart and if i did my best to follow the spirit and rely on the lord, he will take care of the rest and gave my scriptures on fearing not and suggested i keep a little miracle journal and pointed it out that if i had trust and confidence in the lord there would be no room for fear and doubt in my heart, so i have come to realize that my faith and confidence in him needs to improve and to rely on him which i haven't been doing, so it was another lesson and confronting the emotions i have ignored and the sisters were so wonderful and the spirit was there and so i know what i need to work on and realize i cant give back a divine gift of the lord and just do my best to use my judgement and the spirit to lead me in righteousness. i feel like i am growing and maturing in a way i never imagined, its like heavenly father is molding
me after him and that my spirit and mind will be in harmony of his will and desires for me, i don't know i just know i am changing and hope it benefits everyone around me. i had a great day at church two investigators came and had a great time, so this week has been long and exhausting but it was good, the spirit was there and i learned and had great teachers and so you don't need to worry i am doing fine and although sis Bentley leaves in two weeks to go home and i get a new companion it will still be an adventure so i am looking forward to upcoming experiences.
knowing i had no idea what the consequences might be so the sisters really comforted me and told me that i couldn't let fear rule my heart and if i did my best to follow the spirit and rely on the lord, he will take care of the rest and gave my scriptures on fearing not and suggested i keep a little miracle journal and pointed it out that if i had trust and confidence in the lord there would be no room for fear and doubt in my heart, so i have come to realize that my faith and confidence in him needs to improve and to rely on him which i haven't been doing, so it was another lesson and confronting the emotions i have ignored and the sisters were so wonderful and the spirit was there and so i know what i need to work on and realize i cant give back a divine gift of the lord and just do my best to use my judgement and the spirit to lead me in righteousness. i feel like i am growing and maturing in a way i never imagined, its like heavenly father is molding
me after him and that my spirit and mind will be in harmony of his will and desires for me, i don't know i just know i am changing and hope it benefits everyone around me. i had a great day at church two investigators came and had a great time, so this week has been long and exhausting but it was good, the spirit was there and i learned and had great teachers and so you don't need to worry i am doing fine and although sis Bentley leaves in two weeks to go home and i get a new companion it will still be an adventure so i am looking forward to upcoming experiences.
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