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Day #59: I love my job and the fact that it brings in new information to my life. I found this movie today at work called 'A 2nd Witness'. It's about a lady from the Willie handcart company named Elizabeth Panter. While with the handcart company traveling she was out picking up buffalo chips. A random guy came up and asked how the company was, and she said they were starving. He led her to this cave and gave her all this buffalo meat he had dried. After leaving she tried to go back and couldn't find the cave entrance. The main part of the movie was about her daughter who was with the handcart company as an infant. After her mom died she stopped believing the story as much due to others saying it was probably made up. She was later in Idaho at church with her daughter when this older guy got up to talk. He told about being with the Willie handcart company and starving, but a random lady in the group met a stranger and got buffalo meat for the group that probably saved a lot of people. Her daughter took that as the second witness that it had really happened to her mom. At the very end the older guy talking in this sacrameeting said 'We were without substance but we were not without God's grace. And God put forth his hand to make his presence known.' I have to say I feel like I never have money because I'm forking it out to rent or student loans. Yeah I'll probably be poor forever, but I will be the first to say that even if I'm poor forever my life isn't lived without God in it. And having God in your life is the best thing you can have in life. It's more important then having tons of money and it brings more happiness then money ever can.

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Day #58: I was reading about some LDS authors and one in particular that does a really good job in LDS movies is Jason Wade. He's Brother Savage in 17 Miracles and usually a parent in some others such as Cokeville Miracle. Anyway the movies he's in make me happy!! There was a interview with him that is through LDS Living. Apparently at one point before acting in movies he was homeless. So this is what he said in relation to that: 'I am so glad the living-out-of-my-car days are over. Those were some dark days, but it had so much more to do with being spiritually and creatively lost than it did not having any money for rent. You ask yourself some pretty poignant questions when you get to that level in your life, and most days I didn't like the answers. I didn't know why I was here. I didn't know where I was going. I started to question everything.
But in the months and months of questioning to come, I started to answer the questions differently. I stopped blaming everything around me and I took personal responsibility. I realized I was the only one who could make choices to get me out of that dark place, so I started to collect all the things that made me happy or gave me a reason to wake up in the morning. I fell in love with Pennsylvania's beauty. I started to record my travels. I started to visit the historical sites and state parks and make little documentaries. A feeling of fulfillment awakened as I was running the camera, talking in front of it, and editing the footage throughout the night. I felt a sense of purpose.
This new energy emerged and I used that energy to prioritize my life. I put Church attendance on my top 5 list. I made my prayers more about being grateful and not so much about complaining. I stopped being a recluse and put more effort into being around people with good energy. This ultimately brought me to my senses. A very clear vision emerged. I needed to embrace my passion for acting and I needed to get back to Utah where I knew I had a stable job in Wildland fire. I could get out of debt in a few summers and I was hoping there was a talent agency that would pick me up.' This was a pretty inspiring thing to read because it's true, stop blaming others and take responsibility for your circumstances. That is what will change your life and make your life more fulfilled and happy.
http://www.ldsliving.com/-LDS-Actor-Jasen-Wade-From-Living-in-Car-to-Movie-Star/s/80262

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Day #57: I realized that on this day a bunch of years ago I went to the MTC or Mission Training Center. Yep going on a mission for the LDS church was one of the best things I've done. Sometimes it's sad to think it'll never happen again. But truth is that we can be just as happy and in tune with the spirit as we were in the mission field. Key is that you have to LIVE the gospel and LIVE in tune with the spirit for that to be happen. If your miserable then what is causing that? Time to make amends and fix your issues or you'll never be happy if you continually blame others for the problems YOU create!!

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Day #56: Riding a bike makes me happy!! Yeah kind of random but I recently started biking again. I haven't rode a bike in 20 years, but it's great fun!! :D

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Day #55: Blessings of being honest makes me happy. I've had a side job and back in January I really was a bit on the poor side. Well at this side job we write up our hours on our own and turn them in, so we don't turn them in through a computer. I had several days back in January where there wasn't a lot to do at the side job. So I left early those times and one of the people there said to me 'oh just mark that you were here the whole time.' Well it was tempting since I needed money, but in all reality now that I think about it there was maybe $10 lost overall from leaving early. So yeah I ended up marking the right times and interestingly enough hours picked up a lot soon after. I started getting more hours then I could do and had to drop some hours. Anyway I had long forgotten this and just recently was reminded of it. I realized that it's so true, God WILL help you if your honest. On the other hand, if your NOT HONEST then God isn't going to help you. And that is an absolute fact!!

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Day #54: I always am happy to see amazing quotes from the apostles!!

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Day #53: Today I realized that it is the year mark from the day that I moved from that horrible apartment with the nasty roommates. If you don't know what I'm talking about then scroll down and read all about it. It was great weather so I decided to walk through that neighborhood. Just for the sake that I know that I've done tons of great things in the last year. But that nasty old roommate is still in the rut of living in a cheap apartment with roommates. And still at a miserable job and just as miserable as she was a year ago. On the other hand I've done a lot, but not only that I'm actually HAPPY. The funniest part though is that I noticed when going through the neighborhood that one of the cars that was always in that driveway was down the street at another apartment. Looks like those roommates are doing the same thing I did last year. I only moved a block away because the neighborhood was great, the roommates were NOT!! So I'm happy that it's been a great year and I'll never have to associate with those MISERABLE people again!!