The Spirit of Elijah compared with the learning and understanding of missionary work along with our Savior Jesus Christ and Prophet Joseph Smith

Hello Everyone who follows and likes my posts.


Last night and today I have started to study the scriptures in quite some depth and also using the preach my gospel a long side it. I have learnt so many new things on how it is important to invite people to come unto Christ, how important faith is.  How hope can lead us all in the right direction to go in, for enduring to the end. 

At this moment as I am writing this post I am learning about The Spirit Of Elijah.  And learnt that he is a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the amazing nature of the family. And how special it is to have your family living the Gospel and being able to sit down together and study, even learn about the teachings of Christ and having the Holy Ghost and the spirit of Elijah bearing witness of it upon you at such times. 

And that we have the Book Of Mormon on this earth and it is the greatest gift ever that God has actually given us, to know the truth from when Joseph Smith decided to go down into the sacred grove and kneel down and pray, and being told that he is the prophet of the Lord and that he had such an important work to do on this earth and bring back the true church of Jesus Christ on this earth once again. 

That church is known as The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, and for me knowing that Joseph Smith listened to Heavenly Father at that time he did and chose to do what the Lord wanted is an amazing sacrifice he gave, he could have ignored the Lord and went about his own ways, but because of the caring nature of Joseph smith he didn't. He decided to listen and help restore Christ's church back on earth at that time. Being able to get the gift to be able to translate the Book Of Mormon into English was amazing, even though it took a while he completed the task that God gave him. 

To me Joseph showed great and utter faith in Christ and God, so that he could know the truth of what he wanted and how he had to do it in this life. I am so thankful for Prophet Joseph Smith, I know that he was the true Prophet of Christ and that he had the strength to over come his trials that he faced and he kept going on with the support of his wife and family behind him.

I have also learnt more about missionary work and how important of a role it is in Christ's church and how he wants us to either give up 18 months or 2 years of our lives to go out and serve him the way he served us at the time of his reign when he was in Jerusalem at his time. And that the Atonement he did for us is a great blessing, he didn't again have to do this but he did because it was what he was supposed to do, he wasn't scared to do that, he knew the Lord loved him and that he loved his father and things would be al-right. 

I wish I had that strength and faith that my savior had, But I don't yet that is why I am studying the gospel and learning new things every time I sit down and pray, read and study the preach my gospel and the scriptures a long side each other. 


I know its a long post, But I felt that I needed to share this with people :)... I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I had writing it today.. 

Open the flood gates to your heart for the holy ghost to enter!!

Hello,


Hope all of you are doing well, and that things are going well for most of you.. Things are picking up well for me with studying finally!! YAY! But other than that family life is fun also visiting my sister, it's been fun and her boyfriend Adam (such a funny guy, but crazy in a good way ha-ha)..

I have found that if things also get tough in times of need you can go to a local wildlife rescue group or reptile group and volunteer there and I find that works really well. I enjoy being around reptiles, I love snakes, Meerkats, Iguanas, and surprisingly tarantulas, stick insects and giant African land snails.. whoop!

I feel so lucky lately with how things are going in life and I know that sounds cheesy but to me its the best place to be in life rather than not being happy.. With the help of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ the best thing that you can do is open your own personal floodgates to your heart to let the Holy Ghost in so that he can do his work that he is here for :)..

The thing that I have learnt to love about the Holy Ghost is that he reveals the truth of scriptures unto our hearts and that for me is one of the greatest gifts we can have from our father in heaven and knowing that we can pray to him and ask for help when we need it and when we feel that we want to learn more about Christ's life and atonement that he did for us..

I am so thankful in 2011 that I felt the way that I did, because if I didn't listen to that warming cuddling feeling around me at the time I would most likely be covered in piercings / tattoos and be off the rails (which isn't fun at all) so I am thankful for the missionaries on-line Elder Ryan Tucker and Zayne Callahan.. I do consider them friends even though we've never met they're my friends and I thank them.

Then there is Lorenzo Giusti and Rory Polo, I am thankful for them putting up with me, because I know that in some ways I was kind of stubborn.. Which is typical of me in a lot of ways,  but after putting in the hard work to listen and understand how important it is to have the gospel in my life, its AMAZING..
So thank you !!

Then on the 14 January 2012 I made the decision with the Elders to get baptized and that's one decision that I will NEVER regret doing!!

AMEN..

Things that I have learnt today

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Let me guess your all most likely thinking, her again? really another blog? haha yep another one.. 

Well today I have been just doing / watching some church videos on lds.org (an awesome website, really influential)and the things that I have managed to learn is that it's better being cheerful, prayerful and that we don't work alone, our families are important and that we should keep an eternal perspective in life!

For me keeping an eternal perspective is a great thing because it gives you a good look at what is to come for us after this life, that we won't die and be forgotten about, we will go back to Heavenly Father and sit in front of Christ our Saviour and be judged for our doings. 

That to me is a great promise because it doesn't matter on what we have done, it's the how much we have put in that matters in this life. Everyone won't be forgotten about at all, we will all be back with our families in our second life and be resurrected in our next life.Another promise that we have..


"what things have you prayed for from father in heaven, and how have you received revelation from them?"

The Love Of My Savior Jesus Christ - the long and winding road of trials in life he gives us!!

Hello,

how has everyone been? 

It has been a while since my last post and for that I do apologise for not continuing it. It has been very stressful over the last couples months for me and my family, but today I at church I have finally (thank the missionaries and our father in heaven) learnt how true prayer can be and how important it is to communicate to our heavenly father whenever we are feeling upset, discouraged or stranded and don't know what to do with our-selves. 

For me the last two nights have been especially hard with things that I cannot put on here or say, but what I can say is that it has been quite emotional and hard to understand why these things have happened to me and my family, for me it is a trial of my loyalty to my father in heaven and to my family and I now know that we must find the strength in ourselves to forgive and forget.

The trial that I have had this past week is weakness and vulnerability for me. But today at church I went with some questions and I have found my answers that I was looking for. To know that I have been praying not for me but for my family also and other people has helped me come to realise that no matter what trial it is, our father in  heaven is there for us whenever we need him and I have needed him today, yesterday and the day before and he has been there for me..

I haven't read/studied the scriptures or anything but I have been praying harder and more intently. And today I got to teach my class in primary and I really enjoyed it, I didn't have a lesson planned for anything but heavenly father and my savior were there for me today when I needed him most in my life. 


I know that this church is true, that our savior, God's only begotten son does live on, and that he does answer our prayers of help or forgiveness, and I testify that these things are true..

I ask one thing of you for those who do read my posts and who do enjoy them please try and remember the love of the saviour and how he can help you in time of troubles..

Amen..

The Holy Ghost definitely does his job

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wow today has been fun so far and I felt the need to write about this..

Today whilst studying about faith I was reading in Hebrews 11 and In James, I felt as though I didn't have control over my body and had the truth of reading these scriptures from the Holy Ghost.. It was like Boom that had just come over me so fast and I haven't felt that in ages, so it was a good experience for me... 

Preparing to serving the Lord and having extreme faith in Jesus Christ

Hello! 

It certainly has been a while since my last blog.. Well this past week has definitely been my best in a while because, I have spoken to the Bishop about signing my mission papers and I have been filling it in online whooo!!.. Which has been so much fun lately because it has given me the chance to be able to see the amazing change in my life and in myself.

My reading and studying has been exciting which is a good thing and I have been feeling more and more positive which has been eventful for me and to be honest I'm loving every single bit of it. People who say reading doesn't help, your wrong it does work it has an amazing transformation on your life and I can testify that to you right now, because it has done wonders for me. It has helped me become closer to my father in heaven and closer to my savior Jesus Christ.. 

It has helped me increase and strengthen my faith in him, I am thankful to the Book Of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, The Holy Bible and Pearl Of Great Price. I know that they are true especially the Book Of Mormon.

Faith to me plays a big part in my life in order for me to believe in Christ because without it we wouldn't be able to do so... In 1 Nephi 7:12 =  it says:

"Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? wherefore, let us be faithful to him"..

To me this verse is saying that, you don't have to have faith in the Lord but they chose to exercise faith in him and yet they didn't have to but they did. I promise to you for those who have faith in Christ you will be blessed for it and trust me it will change your life completely.. Before I was Baptized I was what you could call a rebel teenager but now I'm a Mormon and I'm happier this way. 

Also in Ether 12:6-7 are awesome verses to read I have them marked in my scriptures because they're just such truthful scriptures and reading them earlier with Elder Tucker and Elder Jorgensen I felt the holy ghost reveal the truth of those verses and I felt good inside to know that.. And for those of you who want to change your life, pray for the missionaries to come and visit. I can tell you now they will help you see the light rather than sit in darkness with satan.


I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Pure Love Of Christ Through Missionaries

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Today I thought I'd do my blog on the pure love of Christ through missionaries, and how much truthfulness they speak when teaching / meeting someone in the street. 

I was feeling down and wasn't doing good, so tonight I spoke to Elder Ryan Tucker and Elder Austin Jorgensen about it. We read from the Book Of Mormon, and spoke about why is the word of God so important in our lives, and what makes it important. 

Well I'm going to tell you why the word of God is important and what makes it important. The word of God is important in our lives because it gives everyone a chance to change their lives around from how they are living it and helps people to stop being greedy about things, that aren't uttermost important and where the things are important we should be concentrating on. 

We should all listen to the word of God because it is there to help us understand the better nature of ourselves and how working with Heavenly Father and Christ can make such a difference in our lives by doing what he asks of us, he won't do it all because we also have to make that stand today or whenever it is to work with him and to gain these things that we mostly want in our lives. We should never forget that the Lord loves each and everyone of us the same, we are all equal no matter what we've done in this life time we have a second chance to change our lives around and stand to fight for what we think is right and to fight for what we believe in. 

Missionaries are a great example because they listen to the word of God, we aren't perfect but we are trying to become more like our saviour Christ and that takes our effort to be able to do this along side him. 

When I first started speaking to the Missionaries online I was scared and nervous at the same time because it was something new and incredible that I was soon to find out that would happen in my life. That best thing was taking upon the name of Christ and being baptized in his name and into his church that has the restored gospel of Christ upon this earth today. 

I realise now that I made the correct decision to listen to the Holy Ghost that day and to find the true church and I did and I am happy. Since speaking with the Elders tonight I've realized now it is time to make that stand and to stop satan from taking back over and start letting the goodness and righteousness of Christ take back over. I'll tell you this once your in the bright light of Christ it's such an amazing feeling because you feel that you belong somewhere you should be, and your are blessed for being in the correct place. 

Everyone that I have met along my journey so far has told me their stories of the Gospel and how much it has helped them and I can take aboard what they have said and try my very best to put it into action in my own life. The  Missionaries that I have met, Elder Polo, Lorenzo Giusti, Elder Tucker, Elder Boardman, Elder Hafen, Zayne Callahan, Paul Hathaway they're amazing people and have decided to do the right thing and listen to that feeling you get when you want to change, and now so many years down the line they are giving up two years of their lives to serve full time missions for their Lord and I hope to be able to do the same next year. 

I leave this with you in the name of Jesus Christ.AMEN.