Shout out to the BOM Prophets

Well well well, here I am making my first post on our churchy church blog. It's about time, I do say. This is going to be quick but at least it's happening.

Sometimes I am grumpy and stubborn, and I don't feel like reading my scriptures. Which is really silly, because reading the Book of Mormon makes me HAPPY! There is amazingly no better medicine to a crappy day than picking up that little book and reading a couple of pages. Tonight at the temple I was reading about King Benjamin. That man said many wise and happy words. I was just thinking about how amazing it is that the words of a man who lived before the time of Christ could be preserved for me to read in 2012. I don't think that was an accident on Heavenly Father's part. I'm not sure if King Benjamin or any of the other Book of Mormon prophets knew what kind of an impact their words would have on so many people hundreds of years later, but I'm grateful for how diligent they were in recording the words of God. I take the Book of Mormon for granted sometimes, not really considering what had to happen in order for it to be in my life. But I bet it took a lot of work to put together! So shout out to you guys, you Book of Mormon prophets! You have made all the difference!

Day 4 of Temple Challenge

So sometimes Cassie comes up with awesome ideas like going to the Temple every day for the rest of the semester! Day 4 and we are still going strong! So here are some things I have learned after 4 days of the Temple!

1. The Temple makes me happy
2. Only the Temple can wake you up at 5:30 in the morning and make you leave happy and awake
3. Satan doesn't like it when we attend everyday and as Joseph Smith said, "It seems as thought the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?" Satan doesn't like it when we do the Lord's work and when we do it often, he wants to stop us at all costs.
4. There is no place else like it
5. It is the House of the Lord
6. Temple workers are awesome and funny
7. In Temple prep we talked about all the people you do work for, how those who accept the gospel and have been waiting for someone to do their work will be so grateful to you, how those people will look out for you and will be your "guardian angels" so to speak. I know that to be true. All the people we have done baptisms for are constantly around us and helping us in our lives and supporting us in all that we do.

Bop It - Live It - Learn From It - Challenge It - It's Life

This one time Chaia asked me to relate Bop It to the Gospel... this is what came of it....

    Bop It is like life, the challenges we face our different for each of us; 

In Bop It we may struggle with Spin It, 

others may struggle with Twist it, 

and some may even struggle with both. 

 We all make mistakes, 

sometimes we make mistakes early on and learn from our mistakes, 

sometimes we make bigger mistakes later on in life 

and we have more work to do to get back to where we were;

 however, we can always start over, 

we can always take that step back after we mess up and begin again. 

No matter how many times we mess up we can always try again.

That's not all though. Sometimes we think, oh I'm too good, I can get a hundred points I don't need to do anything else because I've mastered this. 

That is not the case; we can always add something more to challenge ourselves and make us better. 

In Bop It we add sounds or colors,

 in life we can study the scriptures for longer or really truly study them. 

There are countless ways we can challenge ourselves and improve ourselves.

So learn from Bop-It. Improve yourself! Learn from your mistakes and challenge yourself to become a better person!!