Amongst the unloved and unwanted things, honestly the things you find...
TWO BELOVED MISSIONARIES! One is on the hunt for souls and one is just there relaxing away letting her companion do it all. That's what you call great missionary work... NOT!
Haha honestly we do so much more than this. We are hard working disciples of Christ that have been set apart from the world to declare the word of God for only a short amount of time in our lives. Without our families it could not be possible. Without our Saviour Jesus Christ, there would be no point in bringing about Salvation among the children of men and declaring repentance. It is all through Him that all is possible. The atonement is very real and it is there for us to use to our advantage. At times we think its easy to forgive others and its so hard to forgive ourselves. At times we cant ever forgive ourselves. If we don't forgive ourselves and use the atonement to our advantage then we are calling our Saviour a liar. We are saying that his atonement is for everyone else but ourselves. Sometimes we just don't think that we can use it but others can. Our Saviour is not a liar and that's something that I have learnt is that I need to forgive not only others but myself also. Its by far the hardest thing that we can do but if we go through true repentance then of course it is possible. I was reading in the ensign magazine that you know when Jesus Christ gave the sermons on the Mount he said in Matthew Chapter 5 of the New Testament "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." First thought as in perfect is... no mistakes? That's what I would think and so by that we cant fulfil the thing of which He has said because we are all imperfect right. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Savior commands us: “Be ye therefore perfect” (Matthew 5:48). The Greek word for perfect can be translated as “complete, finished, fully developed” (in Matthew 5:48, footnote b). Our Savior asks us to become complete, finished, fully developed—to be perfected in the virtues and attributes He and our Father in Heaven exemplify. See how they differ from our understanding of things and through the Lords actual meaning. That is why we must not "trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." Jesus Christ is our Advocate with the father. He is the one that pleads for us to our Heavenly Father that we may be forgiven and have that chance to come and live with Him again. We are our Saviours brothers and sisters and He loves us with an infinite love and willingly laid down His life for us. I he wanted he could have come off the cross on Calvary but he willingly let them crucify him in order for the plan to work. It is done all out of love. That is why we are here in this world is because of the love that heavenly father has for us. Do you think He is not sad that his children are away from him? Do you not think that it hurts Him when His children depart from the ways He has showed them to live? Do you not think he is heart broken to see His child deny Him and the blessings that He has given them? How would you feel if your children left the ways and standards you showed them and fell off the path and didn't even want to know you? That is how Heavenly Father feels but ten times fold... a million times fold because we are His children that are supposed to come back to Him. HE wants each and every one of His children to return back to Him but He knows that not all of us will come back. It brings deep sorrow to Him to know that there are some of His children that will never be with Him again. Living eternity without a child... without your children... would, I believe, be the worst feeling in the world for a parent. That's why the gospel is so necessary in all things. That's why we need it. When you LEARN THE GOSPEL you will want to LIVE THE GOSPEL and you will indeed LOVE THE GOSPEL. Its Jesus Christs Gospel. Change and become the person Heavenly Father needs you to be and be that example to others. Stop procrastinating. Stop living in denial. Just STOP!!!!! And look at your life. There is something missing in your life. Why do you want to be sad? Why do you want to live in misery for? I KNOW that you don't. I KNOW that you want to find happiness. I KNOW you want to fill the missing whole in your life. And iKNOW how you can find it if you just put yourself out there and learn of the teachings of Christ. TO study them and ponder the words in the scriptures. We each have things we need to learn and increase our own understanding whether we are not in the gospel or if we have been in our whole lives. We all need to improve. We are all tempted by Satan. He is very real Satan is. Heavenly father and Jesus Christ knows you by name, your hearts desires and your weaknesses and that's how through the atonement of Christ when He performed it in the Garden of Gethsemane He knows how to "succor his people" which means he knows how to bring them closer to Him. But Satan knows too. HE knows the same things and that's why we are always deceived. Satan is very patient and when he has a hold of you He takes you down and its so hard to get up and when you start to live the teachings of the gospel he works even harder because this is the true gospel. He doesn't want us to be happy and so he doesn't want us to be happy. I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have in knowing that I can change through the atonement of Christ. That it is available for me. But not only me.. you also. It is through the Book Of Mormon that we can know of the fullness of this gospel. This is how we find everlasting happiness. This is how I have changed and am becoming the person that I absolutely love.
