100 Happy Days!

Day #64: Sunday makes me happy and going to church. Super great that it is Sunday tomorrow!!

100 Happy Days!

Day #63: I was reading this book not long ago about understanding the temple endowment. (LDS temple if your confused) Well one main point given is that to understand the temple endowment you need to be directed by personal revelation to understand it. Also stated in the book is that if you haven't had any personal revelation in a long time or even seen miracles in your life in a long time then YOUR lacking in faith. To have a true relationship with God you HAVE to have personal revelation. If your not having personal revelation then God isn't talking to you and it's all one sided on your part. God only refuses to not communicate or give personal revelation when your following Satan and ignoring the commandments and prophets from God. Remember if your having issues with this then you can change through the atonement of Jesus Christ and receive personal revelation in the future. I thought that was a very good point and grateful that I have recently seen miracles in my life. And as stated on my day #62 I obviously have recent personal revelation or I wouldn't have gone to the store in a rush and then ran into that guy from YSA ward. I am happy to find out that the key is personal revelation on understanding the temple endowment because there are points of it that are hard to understand. I'll keep the personal revelation in mind in order to understand the temple endowment better.

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Day #62: At church it's been interesting because in the last 5 weeks we have sang the song 'These Emblems We Partake' three times. It really caught my attention the first time on verse 3 because it says: 'The law was broken; Jesus died that justice might be satisfied, that man might not remain a slave of death, of hell or of the grave.' It just really came to me that this is saying if you don't use the atonement and don't repent while knowing better you are allowing yourself to become a slave to Satan. Reality is that if you want to repent and use the atonement then yes it'll be hard, but it won't be as hard if you let Christ help you to change. The atonement is real is all I have to say and I know that from first hand experience. It's just sad when people continue in misery being a slave to Satan when they could actually use the atonement to be happy. I hope everyone will use the atonement considering it is free to everyone!

Break away from 100 Happy Days!

Well sometimes the internet can be fake or it just looks like people have perfect lives. Generally because they don't state the problems that they do have. So some bad things going on for me are that last week the water heater in my apartment blew up. It happened the night before Memorial day, so all Memorial day I was catching water in a bowl. And ever since then I've been listening to this very loud fan dry the carpet that got really wet. It was the first time in almost a year where I actually wished I had roommates again. When I had roommates before they were so bossy and wanted to be in charge of everything that they'd report stuff to the landlord. I was glad to not have to worry about reporting problems to the landlord in the past. But unfortunately I have to do all of that now that I'm on my own.
Also a nasty situation I found out about today is that some librarians at a neighboring library got laid off for no reason. The claim in the news report is that they were laid off due to the budget being low. It's just awful because the two laid off have master degrees. It's pretty sad. Especially since it's pretty hard to get library jobs as it is without leaving the state or so it seems.

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Day #61: I didn't work today and so I wasn't in a hurry to wake up. Well suddenly I just woke up and looked at the clock. I saw that it was a good time to be awake. After being awake about 10 minutes I suddenly had the urge to go to the grocery store ASAP. I was going to go to the grocery store since I was off, but really wouldn't have considered it vital to go to the store so fast. Other then I was out of food and kind of hungry, usually smoothies don't do much for long. (mostly what I had in the apartment or canned food) Well I decided to go to the store if I had the impression to do it. I was trying to leave and kept forgetting stuff, so I kept going back in. Finally I left and I noticed it was really good weather. So I decided to walk and ride the bus back at the end. Well I was about 1 1/2 blocks away from my apartment when I almost ran right into this guy. I quickly realized that I knew who this guy was, it was actually a guy that I knew from a YSA ward 3 years ago. We were about 5 feet from running in to each other, except I was coming from another way. So he didn't see me and crossed the street. From the back I couldn't quite tell if it was him, but I was pretty sure that was who I had seen on the corner before he turned to cross. Well while deciding if it was really him the chance was missed to say anything because he suddenly was like 1/2 a block a head of me. I stayed back long enough to determine it was him and eventually he was a block ahead of me, apparently a fast walker. Well I went in the direction of the store and he walked the other way, later found out he was going up north to his job. Well I texted him since I'm doing the 'no social media this week' and said that I was pretty sure he had been in front of me. He said that he had been along that street at that time, but was going to work since it was such good weather. So we conversed a little and then I said that I was actually really happy that I'd seen him. Even though we hadn't actually conversed I was glad to see him because he's one of the very good people I've known in life. It was so nice seeing a good person in the world today after being bogged down for to long with horrible people in the world. I realized that apparently I was supposed to see him or I wouldn't have had the impression to get to the store so fast. And any other day off I wouldn't have woken up that early either most likely. Happy to be reminded that most of the world is good people, but unfortunately bad people do exist by the bad choices they make everyday.

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Day #60: Not doing facebook or social media for a week makes me HAPPY!! Surprise to you all, but President Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (lds.org) Did a meeting yesterday and encouraged the teens and anyone else interested to not do facebook or social media in general for a week. I liked his description of facebook and social media. It has good points to it, but it's a FAKE world! I noticed that back with those bad roommates. They were JERKS in real life, but put on facebook how loving and spiritual they were. They also put on fake pictures of them covered in make up and such ridicules things when in real life the one specially told me 'makeup is a waste of time and I don't wear it.' So I have always made a valid effort to not put fake stuff on facebook or social media in general. I always appreciate those who do the same. I don't count blogging as social media, but it's been great so far without social media in my life. If not for this challenge I would probably be on facebook right now over blogging. :)