March 30 ~ What Matters Most

What matters most

So over the past couple weeks I have had a lot on my mind, one of the many things that I have had on my mind is what is really important in my life? One of the many reasons that this question had popped into my mind is because I was thinking about what I did before my mission and what I am planning on doing after my mission, these two things have prompted many questions like....
Do I want to do the same things when I get home?
What do I wish I had/hadn't done?
What do I plan on changing when I get home?
What carrier path do I want to peruse?
What kind of car do I want?
Where do I want to live?

So after thinking about all of these things I than asked myself what really matters?
Does it really matter if I get a new car when I get home? NO
Does it really matter if I get the same job I had before? NO
Do any of these worldly things matter? NO not really. So why was I even worrying about them? I really didn’t know.

After thinking about what is really going to matter when I go home I came to the conclusion.

That the only things that really matter right now or what matters most is that I am out here on my mission sharing the gospel with those that I come in contact with. I know that all of the things back home will fall into place if I focus on the things that matter most right here and now and not worry about all of the other things.
I know that if more people would take just a few minutes and step back and refocus their view on what really matters there would be a lot happier people and a lot less who are fearful of the future.




Here is a video by President Thomas S. Monson

March 15th-Patience

Today i was reading in Mosiah 23;21 which says-Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to ^achasten his people; yea, he trieth their ^bpatience and their faith. then in chapter 24;15 it says -And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did ^astrengthen them that they could bear up their ^bburdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with ^cpatience to all the will of the Lord.
After reading these scriptures I started thinking about different things in my life that have taught me patience. the biggest thing in my life that i believe has taught me to be patience was my job up at Brumbaugh Stables back in Oregon, while working there I broke and trained a horse. While training i had a lot of times when i felt like the horse was making no progress but my boss told me to keep pushing her and to not get discouraged which can be very hard when you yourself don't see anything coming from all of the work that you are doing. Well after awhile i started to notice that the horse started doing things without me having to ask more than once, this made me very happy to see progress.


like earlier i think that there are times in our life were we are working our hardest yet we don't see anything coming of it, but i can guarantee that if you keep trying and pushing yourself that will be able to accomplish things that you never thought that you could because like it said in Mosiah 24;15 the burdens upon Alma were made light and the lord strengthened them. I know that the lord will help us in all of our righteous endeavors and that he will not give us more than we can handle like it says In 1Nephi 3;7 I ^awill go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.


here is a video that talks a little about Patience

March 9th

Ever since I got out on my mission I have been reading different conference issues of the ensign. While reading I came across a talk that I have come to love, it is Jeffery R Holland's talk called Safety for the soul. In his talk Elder Holland talks a lot about the Book of Mormon and he gives a little history about Hyrum and Joseph Smith right before they were martyred.

here is a link to it lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng&query=safety+soul
at this link you can either read, listen or watch the talk that he gave.