I've been doing the 10 day social media fast since President Nelson gave the challenge at the women's conference 6 days ago. I've done plenty of fasts from social media before, just on my own because I got tired of it. But oddly enough this one has been a lot harder, I was talking to someone and we decided it's Satan trying to get to us. Since we actually are following the prophet on not doing it over just deciding to not do it on our own.
Another challenge at the women's conference was to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. I'm in 1 Nephi at the moment and reading all about Laman and Lemuel who ALWAYS complained about everything. It's always kind of annoying reading about those two since they always complained so much. Well I was at work today and one of the ladies there was telling me that she's seen huge complaints on social media this week in relation to President Okes talk at conference. I actually saw it somewhat in some group pages right before I started the 10 day fast. I actually looked up the talk tonight because I didn't know what anyone could be complaining about in relation to that talk. I'm still shaking my head because he didn't say anything to abnormal. Other then he did say things in relation to the proclamation to the family. Anyway I find it odd that anything bad is being said about that talk.
But I was thinking about it and I guess it's kind of like Laman and Lemuel who took the truth to be hard. If someone's going to complain about a conference talk then something is amiss.
I decided maybe that was the foresight of President Nelson and maybe some of us needed a break from facebook so we'd miss the complaining. I loved conference and don't want to be affected by those complaining about a church leader stating the truth.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
General Conference!
This weekend was general conference, which was great!! It's funny but I totally was thinking during just about every talk how something in it applied to my life. Of course by the time conference was over I could barely remember any of the talks. But I concluded it's because if your spirit guided during conference then you'll be connected to spirit guided things that are said. Clearly all conference talks are spirit guided, especially since we always hear people say 'I had a question and it was answered in conference.' I actually did have that experience, life was seeming pretty good so I didn't come up with a question until last night. It was in relation to someone I've had a lot of problems with, super hard to figure out what to do with the situation. But then the second or third talk in the morning session was by Elder Holland on not holding onto problems with people. I was kind of frustrated with that talk actually, but it seemed like Elder Anderson's talk afterward fit right with it on not giving up during trials. So once again it's pretty clear the talks in conference are spirit guided, since I doubt they talked together about their topics beforehand.
But it was a great weekend and one of those where I hate to see the weekend come to an end. Not because I hate going to work on Monday, but because conference was so spiritual and honestly it's probably what people in the spirit world experience all the time. (just a thought) I wish at times like this that I didn't have to go back into the world, but there's no way around it. In order to not be apart of the world I'd have to stay in my apartment and go no where. But it goes to show that conference was great and hope others agree with that!
I found it interesting where President Nelson put emphasis on going to the temple. I have tried to do that a lot anyway since there is a temple in my town. But it made me wonder if the world will get even worse then it is. Anyway I am doing the 10 day fast from social media or at least facebook, since I don't do the others a lot. I am trying to find temple names, but I hit a dead end after finding about 15 on one family line. I have decided that during the 10 days of no facebook I'll try to find names and index. Funny enough indexing isn't bad, you just have to find the stuff that is easier to read. I had tips given to me from people in my ward on doing the war records. Most of those are generally easier to read and besides there is someone who reviews what you do. So need to fear, if you do it wrong someone else should catch it. The idea of it could be done wrong isn't a good excuse to not index. Anyway hope others will join me on finding family names and indexing. Happy Sunday!!
But it was a great weekend and one of those where I hate to see the weekend come to an end. Not because I hate going to work on Monday, but because conference was so spiritual and honestly it's probably what people in the spirit world experience all the time. (just a thought) I wish at times like this that I didn't have to go back into the world, but there's no way around it. In order to not be apart of the world I'd have to stay in my apartment and go no where. But it goes to show that conference was great and hope others agree with that!
I found it interesting where President Nelson put emphasis on going to the temple. I have tried to do that a lot anyway since there is a temple in my town. But it made me wonder if the world will get even worse then it is. Anyway I am doing the 10 day fast from social media or at least facebook, since I don't do the others a lot. I am trying to find temple names, but I hit a dead end after finding about 15 on one family line. I have decided that during the 10 days of no facebook I'll try to find names and index. Funny enough indexing isn't bad, you just have to find the stuff that is easier to read. I had tips given to me from people in my ward on doing the war records. Most of those are generally easier to read and besides there is someone who reviews what you do. So need to fear, if you do it wrong someone else should catch it. The idea of it could be done wrong isn't a good excuse to not index. Anyway hope others will join me on finding family names and indexing. Happy Sunday!!
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Sunday is great!!
Since I've been in the over 30 ward they do this day conference during the summer involving Logan and Ogden, along with anyone else who wants to show up. There were some from Idaho and Salt Lake there too, mainly people who like the conferences and go to anyone they hear about. Well at these conferences they have different classes, some spiritual and some dating related. In the morning I went to this class on the temple, and it turned out to be the recently released Logan temple president that talked at it. While there he talked about a youth group from Idaho that came one time at 5 am to do baptisms, since they needed to get back in time for school. Well suddenly I wanted to go to the temple, especially since it had been closed for the last month. I decided the people who planned the conference should be happy I applied something to life. So I skipped the last talk last night and went to the temple before it was closed at 8 pm. Today when I was going to church I went by the temple and suddenly stopped to stare. Maybe I was the only one to see it, but it was totally glowing. It reminded me of a former stake president in Roosevelt who was the Vernal temple president a few years ago. He said something along the lines of by being at the temple a lot it makes you more holy. At least he'd noticed that as the temple president for three years. This incident just reminded me of that, if your doing lots of spiritual stuff then you'll notice the difference.
Also today at church this girl talked who I didn't really know, and only a few weeks ago had a conversation with. Well she told about this relative who lived in Nauvoo as a teenager. He was quite friendly with Joseph Smith and one day this guy named William Law asked him to go work for him. This teenager had a bad feeling, but Joseph Smith told him it was a good idea to take the job. So he went and started working for William Law and he started hearing the adults talk in apostate ways. He always paid attention to the conversations and one night was asleep. (apparently he slept there) But he woke up and heard them talking about killing Joseph Smith, and they wanted him to help them do it too. He went over and told Joseph Smith what they had said, well Joseph Smith said 'Yes help them and load the gun or whatever they want, but don't worry if I'm suppose to live they won't succeed.' So he went back and the next day they wanted him to help them load the gun. He did it and was standing there when they tried to shoot Joseph Smith. Well the gun wouldn't work and the bullets wouldn't come out. (something like that) They were mad telling the teenager that he'd loaded it wrong. He said 'no I didn't do it wrong' and the guy turned and tried to shoot a post. Lo and behold all bullets shot totally normal as they should have previously. But it was a pretty cool story because it goes to show that no one dies by accident. Although we refer to them as car accident, bike accident or boating accident. It's a good thing to remember in life. Happy Sunday!
Also today at church this girl talked who I didn't really know, and only a few weeks ago had a conversation with. Well she told about this relative who lived in Nauvoo as a teenager. He was quite friendly with Joseph Smith and one day this guy named William Law asked him to go work for him. This teenager had a bad feeling, but Joseph Smith told him it was a good idea to take the job. So he went and started working for William Law and he started hearing the adults talk in apostate ways. He always paid attention to the conversations and one night was asleep. (apparently he slept there) But he woke up and heard them talking about killing Joseph Smith, and they wanted him to help them do it too. He went over and told Joseph Smith what they had said, well Joseph Smith said 'Yes help them and load the gun or whatever they want, but don't worry if I'm suppose to live they won't succeed.' So he went back and the next day they wanted him to help them load the gun. He did it and was standing there when they tried to shoot Joseph Smith. Well the gun wouldn't work and the bullets wouldn't come out. (something like that) They were mad telling the teenager that he'd loaded it wrong. He said 'no I didn't do it wrong' and the guy turned and tried to shoot a post. Lo and behold all bullets shot totally normal as they should have previously. But it was a pretty cool story because it goes to show that no one dies by accident. Although we refer to them as car accident, bike accident or boating accident. It's a good thing to remember in life. Happy Sunday!
Sunday, August 5, 2018
What happens when you meet apple phones virtual assistant named Siri!
My old phone died and I had to get a new phone. I didn't even think about it when buying it, but I got an apple phone that has Siri on it. Well I randomly started asking Siri all these random questions, and one of those was 'who is the oldest person in the world?' It was a person whose 125 in Japan I think it was, but they've only been the oldest person in the world for the last 2 1/2 weeks. Well I got Siri to look up who was the oldest person in the USA. That person is a lady in New York or Boston (somewhere like that) who is 113. I read on and they said that they will keep an eye on people's records through some alert. When they get alerted that someone is 110 then they'll look up info on them and try to talk to them. Well in the process of media attention they will ask them how they think that they have lived so long? I read about one person who said that they ate healthy food and kept it small on the unhealthy food. Their favorite food was fried chicken, but they kept it down on that throughout life. (but still ate it) Someone concluded it was having the next to perfect genes and only few get those genes to live past 100. Another lady said that God helped her live that long.
I found this interesting because the world is always trying to determine how something could have happened if it's out of the norm. But if you think about it the whole reason why someone would live past 100 is because God helps them live that long. It's true that eating unhealthy food could cause an early death. But most likely in those cases those people just get sick and stay sick until they're supposed to die. I've seen a lot of people who've had cancer and then survived through surgery or chemo. I knew a guy several years ago who had to do both chemo and surgery and is still alive. I don't think there are any near perfect genes out there. It's called God will let you live until your supposed to die, even if it's past 100.
I also found it interesting because they said in the USA there are 36 known people who are over 110. There could be more but birth records weren't kept very well before 1933.
Also it was wierd to think of someone being born in 1900 and still being alive now. They literally were alive through several wars, the great depression, pioneer life, internet and now the internet being on a phone. That would be pretty wierd to be alive that long.
I did realize that if I lived to 118 then I'd live in three centuries, wouldn't that be cool? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to do that though because all the people I read about were alive but in assisted living centers or hospitals. But it would be cool to say you lived in three centuries, although this one would be the longest for me. (the 2000's) I'm pretty sure that won't happen though because I've eaten to much sugar in my life to get past maybe 80. :D
I found this interesting because the world is always trying to determine how something could have happened if it's out of the norm. But if you think about it the whole reason why someone would live past 100 is because God helps them live that long. It's true that eating unhealthy food could cause an early death. But most likely in those cases those people just get sick and stay sick until they're supposed to die. I've seen a lot of people who've had cancer and then survived through surgery or chemo. I knew a guy several years ago who had to do both chemo and surgery and is still alive. I don't think there are any near perfect genes out there. It's called God will let you live until your supposed to die, even if it's past 100.
I also found it interesting because they said in the USA there are 36 known people who are over 110. There could be more but birth records weren't kept very well before 1933.
Also it was wierd to think of someone being born in 1900 and still being alive now. They literally were alive through several wars, the great depression, pioneer life, internet and now the internet being on a phone. That would be pretty wierd to be alive that long.
I did realize that if I lived to 118 then I'd live in three centuries, wouldn't that be cool? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to do that though because all the people I read about were alive but in assisted living centers or hospitals. But it would be cool to say you lived in three centuries, although this one would be the longest for me. (the 2000's) I'm pretty sure that won't happen though because I've eaten to much sugar in my life to get past maybe 80. :D
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Random conclusions!
I am reading this book called 'Visions of Glory' by John Pontius. It is about a guy who had some near death experiences. What he learned in one near death experience is that God could actually turn around time. Meaning we could go back in time and repeat things, but it's not part of the plan on this earth. So we can't back track time. I was thinking about how that would be wierd if we actually could back track time.
That led to remembering a talk I'd heard awhile ago. It was by a lady named Stephanie Nielson who was in a small plane crash as of about 10 years ago. I believe it was early August of 2008 that the accident happened. She ended up having a near death experience as well, although she doesn't explain much on that in her book 'Heaven is Here.' But she was trapped in the plane while it was in flames. The people in the front had gotten out, so she was the only one trapped. She did have divine guidance in getting out of the plane or she'd be dead. But she got out and ended up seriously burned. After months in the burn center in Arizona and Salt Lake she's very functional now. But does look quite different from before due to skin grafts and such. She does a lot of going around and talking at firesides. This particular one I saw was recorded and put on youtube from a devotional at Utah Valley University. (UVU) Someone there asked that if she could repeat time would she get in the plane again knowing it would crash and burn? I expected her to say 'no way', but oddly enough she said 'yes.'
Anyway after remembering that and reading the book, I thought 'there is no way I'd want to repeat time.' But then I remembered if we could repeat time then I never would go back into that apartment I was in during 2017 with those really, really bad roommates. That would be nice to have that as something that never happened. But interesting enough I've realized this summer that I'm actually glad I lived in that bad apartment with the bad roommates and bad landlord. Because in Utah with mainly LDS people it's easy to be naive and assume everyone is good. (or you hope everyone is good) But I have thus realized from meeting those people that there is evil in Utah and even evil in the church. Not the church itself, but there are evil people who proclaim to be LDS and even go to church. I've become much more careful in the last 18 months. I have since made sure I have locks on my phone. If I meet someone I don't become tight with them super fast. I generally steer clear if I get bad vibes from them and don't think to myself 'okay I have to be friends with them to be a good LDS person.' I generally would think that before 2017 when meeting just about anyone. But you know what? It's actually okay to stay away from people who aren't a good influence or who will try and drag you down. Also I've thus realized from that incident that it really is good to call the police if your in a situation that calls for it. I previously thought it was better to stay away from the police. But technically they are trained to help people be safe. And some situations just aren't safe no matter how you try to get around it.
Most people who know about the bad roommate stuff from early 2017 will be surprised to hear that I'm glad now that I lived there. Because I majorly went off for a long time about how it was the most ridicules thing I had to live there. And I didn't understand why I had the impression to move there if it wasn't good to be there. But I really am glad I moved there because it's become a living reality that we have to be aware that there are evil influences in the world and not everyone is going to be as they proclaim to be. Unfortunately a lot of dishonesty happens and a lot of people in the world put on a fake face. Word from the wise: be careful as to who you associate with and don't trust everyone you meet just to prove your a good LDS person.
That led to remembering a talk I'd heard awhile ago. It was by a lady named Stephanie Nielson who was in a small plane crash as of about 10 years ago. I believe it was early August of 2008 that the accident happened. She ended up having a near death experience as well, although she doesn't explain much on that in her book 'Heaven is Here.' But she was trapped in the plane while it was in flames. The people in the front had gotten out, so she was the only one trapped. She did have divine guidance in getting out of the plane or she'd be dead. But she got out and ended up seriously burned. After months in the burn center in Arizona and Salt Lake she's very functional now. But does look quite different from before due to skin grafts and such. She does a lot of going around and talking at firesides. This particular one I saw was recorded and put on youtube from a devotional at Utah Valley University. (UVU) Someone there asked that if she could repeat time would she get in the plane again knowing it would crash and burn? I expected her to say 'no way', but oddly enough she said 'yes.'
Anyway after remembering that and reading the book, I thought 'there is no way I'd want to repeat time.' But then I remembered if we could repeat time then I never would go back into that apartment I was in during 2017 with those really, really bad roommates. That would be nice to have that as something that never happened. But interesting enough I've realized this summer that I'm actually glad I lived in that bad apartment with the bad roommates and bad landlord. Because in Utah with mainly LDS people it's easy to be naive and assume everyone is good. (or you hope everyone is good) But I have thus realized from meeting those people that there is evil in Utah and even evil in the church. Not the church itself, but there are evil people who proclaim to be LDS and even go to church. I've become much more careful in the last 18 months. I have since made sure I have locks on my phone. If I meet someone I don't become tight with them super fast. I generally steer clear if I get bad vibes from them and don't think to myself 'okay I have to be friends with them to be a good LDS person.' I generally would think that before 2017 when meeting just about anyone. But you know what? It's actually okay to stay away from people who aren't a good influence or who will try and drag you down. Also I've thus realized from that incident that it really is good to call the police if your in a situation that calls for it. I previously thought it was better to stay away from the police. But technically they are trained to help people be safe. And some situations just aren't safe no matter how you try to get around it.
Most people who know about the bad roommate stuff from early 2017 will be surprised to hear that I'm glad now that I lived there. Because I majorly went off for a long time about how it was the most ridicules thing I had to live there. And I didn't understand why I had the impression to move there if it wasn't good to be there. But I really am glad I moved there because it's become a living reality that we have to be aware that there are evil influences in the world and not everyone is going to be as they proclaim to be. Unfortunately a lot of dishonesty happens and a lot of people in the world put on a fake face. Word from the wise: be careful as to who you associate with and don't trust everyone you meet just to prove your a good LDS person.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
100 Happy Days!
Day #68: Happy pioneer day to those who are in Utah! I was in the parade with a handcart group, it was super hot with all the pioneer clothes on. I am happy that I live in current times, it would have been hard to be a pioneer. I also am reading this book about the Willie and Martin handcart companies, it's super sad they got stuck in the winter of Wyoming. But amazing how many went out to help them from Salt Lake when they found out there were still people coming.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
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