Live for christ

 Many times it's easier to say you will die for something or someone, but what are you willing to live for? Are you willing to live for christ? Do you honestly live your life in harmony to the gospel of Christ? Do you serve, sacrifice, love, and put others first? Do you live your life the way the savior lived his? 

Lately I have been looking at my own life I always thought I was doing a good job at living my life in harmony of the gospel. I thought I was putting the Lord first in my life. I thought I loved others the way the Lord wanted me to. Recently I have realized that I have been doing the bare minimum when it came to serving others around both in the church and my own family. I had been doing the minimum when it came to my callings in the church. 

I want others around me to know the savior because they knew me. What does that mean to live our lives in such a way that others know the savior because of me? It means realizing it is more important to say sorry than to be right. It means to put others before you especially when it hard to do so. It means to love unconditionally no matter how the other might treat you. To sacrifice your wants for the greater good. To pray to be used to build God's kingdom on this earth. It means to not judge another because you don't know why they do what they do, instead love them and pray for them. Ask for forgiveness when your own heart is breaking because of how they treated you. It means always doing the harder things in life because it's what Christ would do. Truly living our life the way Christ lived his in service to those around us. 

Living for Christ will always be the hardest thing we could ever do, but there's nothing more rewarding we could live our lives. Nothing that will have more of an affect on this earth. Dying for Christ is easy, but living for him is harder but more rewarding. So let's all live our lives for our Savior. 

How can we be united in a world that divides us?

 In a world that tries to divide us and tells how we are different how can we be united? I have found a few things with my relationship with my boyfriend. We are so different and from the outside I know others think how can we be together. We have different histories. Different cultures. Different stories. Different needs and wants. Even on the outside we are different. So what unites us and what does it teaches us on how to be united no matter our differences? 

I have found that you can look at the differences or you can find the things that you have in similar. Christ helps us find the things in common with people. When the savior is in the center of our lives we find time to serve, to love others. When we serve others we learn to love the other person no matter what might divide us. We learn that even though at first we thought we had nothing in common we have more things in common than first thought. My humble plea is each of us reach out to others who we might not be getting along with with pray, love, and service. I promise as you do so you will find miracles in your life that you never imagined possible. I would love to hear from you guys if times you have done my plea and the miracles that came to you personally. 

Mountains shall depart

 For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. States 3 nephi vs 10.

I have seen in my own life mountains that I never imagined moving move to pass. For many years I struggled with my health mentally, spiritually, and physically. A year ago when I had given up all hope for a healthy and happy life I finally found out what I had been struggling with for years. I found out that I had overian cancer which not only caused many health problems but had my hormones all over the place. I was given a wonderful priesthood blessing that stated that I was promised that the surgery would make me whole. I'm here a year later to state I have been given that promise. I have had the healthiest year of my life. I'm also becoming healed and happier in ways I never imagined possible. 

I had given up all hope for myself that things would improve. I was as low as a person could feel. I felt worthless, unlovable, and suicidal. This past year has been anything but easy but it has also helped me realize that I am a daughter of a loving father in heaven who has more worth and power than I ever imagined possible. I have seen miracles happen in my life that I know is because of God's love for me. So I know that just like God has removed the mountains in my life he will remove them from your life as well. Just have faith and trust in God that all he wants is what will be best for you. God loves you dearly and he cries when we hurt so don't lose hope for a brighter  future ahead that you simply can't see right now. 

Now is the time to prepare!

 This past conference we heard from our prophet that now is the time to prepare ourselves and the world for the Savior's second coming. We may not know how long or what hour the savior is coming, but he is coming and it's coming closer every day. Stop putting off things in our lives and get to work has been the call of our prophet. It takes time to prepare for something as grand as the second coming so stop telling yourself that you can talk to this or that person tomorrow now is the time. 

If you have left the church please come back we not only need what you have to offer, but you need what the gospel has to offer you. Until you come back you are missing blessings that could be yours for the taking. So come back to the gospel. Prepare yourself for the blessings of the temple. Study the gospel so when a person asks a question you are prepared before hand to answer their questions. Don't just believe, but study out the gospel and ask God the questions of your heart. Study until those questions are answered but make sure to go to the right places for the answers. 

When you go to church make sure to go with a positive attitude so you are prepared to welcome people who might be struggling in their testimony or who are new or just coming back. Get to know the people who are in your ward so they know that they are your brother or sister. Those are not just words but truth we are brothers and sisters in the gospel. Find ways to get outside of yourself to serve others around you. 

The world may be in darkness and storms may be coming in floods, but that means the world needs what the gospel has to offer more than ever before. This is the gospel of joy and glad tidings so may we show the world such. We are the people to prepare this world for the second coming of the savior and that should be exciting to realize how much God trusts us. 

Doing the work now for rewards of eternity

 God never said it would be easy, he only said it would be worth it. To me that means doing the hard work now for the blessings that will come. Having trust and faith that by doing hard things now God will bless you and your efforts. After all life was never meant to be easy, it was meant to help us grow and blossom to the person God always saw us able to become. Anything worth anything isn't going to be easy many times it will be the hardest thing we have ever done. No matter if things we are doing are building a family, going to school, working on our career, working on our relationship with our partner, or working on our relationship with God it all takes work, time, and effort on our part to be successful in all that we do. If we do the work we will be grateful in the future so don't lose hope when things get hard. 

Hope and joy is what the gospel is all about!

 In a world where there's depression, anxiety, fear, and such negativity where can we turn for hope and joy even happiness? We know that times are only going to get worse until the second coming so how can we get hope even in a world of such darkness? 

The answers have always been there for our taking. It comes from the gospel. God's plan is called the plan of happiness. That tells us that God wants us to be happy and hopeful. When we feel like we can't go on one more second that's when we need to get on our knees and ask for God's help. God wants to bless us and wants to give us hope no matter what happens in our lives. 

If we are still struggling but breathing it's not the end and it's never the end with God in our lives. We have the power of the priesthood on this earth. Our prophet gains the knowledge of things to come by talking to God face to face. Isn't those two things amazing? We are never without hope for good things to happen in the end for those who believe in God and live the gospel in its fullest. God cares about the questions and things we are struggling with and will carry us if we allow him to. 

Do we have things that are hard that we are going to go through in this life? Of course we are. We were sent here to test us to see what we are going to do with the life God has blessed us with. Even if we fall there's always hope and a way back to the blessings of the gospel because God's love is unconditionally there no matter what we only have to reach up and embrace it. So if you are struggling please do yourself a favor and honestly ask yourself are you allowing yourself to live the gospel in the fullest way possible and are you allowing Christ to carry your trails so you don't have to alone? If you are not don't be disappointed or discouraged just do better to level up and allow God's love and grace to carry you. Don't give up hope for a brighter future ahead for those who follow the Lord's plan for his children. 

Be as a small child

 As i have started a new chapter in my life as a daycare worker I have been thinking about the scriptures that speak about being as a small child. The love that children have are simply amazing especially the children that you can tell are being taught love in their homes. We need to be humble, teachable, lovable, friendly like a small child is. 

That now is my new goal in life to be like a small child in all things. Last night when I was in the room with the 3 and 4 year old they were climbing on my lap. Wanting to be held and loved. I realized that I am the same way I just want to be loved for the amazing person that I am and I realized that everyone has this same need to be loved for the fact that they are a child of God who has more worth than we can ever imagine. May we all think of others more and become more like a small child in all areas of our lives. 

Go after your dreams

 The last little while as school comes to the middle of the semester it's got me thinking about how overwhelming school can be at times. Lately I have been wanting to just quit and work full time so why haven't I dropped out? I know the why behind everything I do in school and I also know that it won't always be like this. So it keeps pushing me to be my best no matter how hard it might get. I see myself being able to help those who need help and being able to help them because I pushed myself. 

So how can you push yourself to grow, go after your dreams, and not give up because it's gotten hard? It starts with knowing your why behind what you want. Realize that it's going to be hard if it's worth something. Third your future self will thank you because you did the work to get to where you want to be in life. Fourth with the help of God you can do anything in this world no matter how hard it might be. After all God never said it would be easy he only promised that you will never have to do anything on your own. God has also said it will be worth it in the end. 

So dream, but make sure to dream big and push yourself to making it happen. You got this, no matter what your dreams are! Never forget that you are amazing and doing amazing things with the life God gave you. If I can do anything to help make your dreams come to pass or you need someone to push you just reach out because I want to see everyone make their dreams happen.