My Testimony of the Apostasy

I have been teaching a friend of mine, about the Restoration of the Gospel, his open for me to teach him and he says it's all very interesting and he feels good about learning it

As I been learning more about the great Apostasy, I know that this is the true church on the earth, that it was restored

In Ephesians 4:5 it says  "One Lord, one faith, one baptism"

Taking this from the "True to the faith" booklet "The Old Testament prophet Daniel prophesied that God would "Set up a kingdom" that would "never be destroyed" and would "stand for ever" (Daniel 2:44). In making this prophecy, he spoke of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the kingdom of God on the earth today. "
-Done with the True to the faith book-
 Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord
 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."
 Prophecy of the Apostasy,


There's a talk in the Ensign June 2012 session. Please read The Honor and order of the Priesthood




In 1976 an area general conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Following the closing session, President Spencer W. Kimball [1895-1985] desired to visit the Vor Frue Church, where the Thorvaldsen statues of Christus and of the Twelve Apostles stand...
“To the front of the church, behind the altar, stands the familiar statue of the Christus with His arms turned forward and somewhat outstretched, the hands showing the imprint of the nails, and the wound in His side very clearly visible. Along each side stand the statues of the Apostles, Peter at the front to the right and the other Apostles in order.


Most of our group was near the rear of the chapel with the custodian. I stood up front with President Kimball before the statue of Peter with Elder Rex D. Pinegar and Johan Helge Benthin, president of the Copenhagen stake.
“In Peter’s hand, depicted in marble, is a set of heavy keys. President Kimball pointed to those keys and explained what they symbolized. Then, in an act I shall never forget, he turned to President Benthin and with unaccustomed firmness pointed his finger at him and said, ‘I want you to tell everyone in Denmark that I hold the keys! We hold the real keys, and we use them every day.’

“I will never forget that declaration, that testimony from the prophet. The influence was spiritually powerful; the impression was physical in its impact.

“We walked to the back of the chapel where the rest of the group was standing. Pointing to the statues, President Kimball said to the kind custodian, ‘These are the dead Apostles.’ Pointing to me, he said, ‘Here we have the living Apostles. Elder Packer is an Apostle. Elder Thomas S. Monson and Elder L. Tom Perry are Apostles, and I am an Apostle. We are the living Apostles.

“‘You read about the Seventies in the New Testament, and here are two of the living Seventies, Elder Rex D. Pinegar and Elder Robert D. Hales.’

“The custodian, who up to that time had shown no emotion, suddenly was in tears."

I know that the these men are called of God and hold the real keys to the Priesthood.
We watched this video in Sunday school last week and  I felt the spirit so strongly that I looked it up and watched it again
A Search for Truth

Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it

Update 6/24/12

Sorry for not posting for awhile, I had some ideas  what to post about but then I just didn't felt like it, but I'll be doing those soon.

The moving date has been pushed back for two weeks, so I'll be around a bit longer, but I think the 2nd Sunday we'll be checking out our new ward, which I think will be a bit awkward, the first couple weeks there

oh and I'm in the 280's now, getting close to the 260's (when I can start on papers) but I might start them around 250-240, which would be pretty awesome


I can't wait for my mission, getting my mission call will be amazing, I'll have someone record it and then I'll post it on here for all of you to watch.
Also, I have only worked out two days this week, the funny thing is I haven't been losing weight for awhile, it been going down and up but I only worked out for two days and I lost 6pounds this week, I think it's because I been pushing my body to much?, with working out everyday (not on Sunday, sometimes on Saturday) but I think that my body needed to have a break, and once it did, more pounds shed off without me really doing anything, just watched what I ate

My goal is to lose 20-30 more pounds til August, and then I'll be at 250-240 then hopefully start on papers, once I move I will be applying for UPS, hopefully I'll get a job there and start saving

I'll leave with you today a song, which I love so much, I like to share a scripture or a video for you at the end of my posts, but today it's a song, enjoy

Youth Conference 6/9/12

I went to the youth conference this past week, even though I'm 19, I still wanted to go

It started out a bit awkward for me, but a lot of things start out awkward with having Asperger's,
I was just standing by myself, I wasn't sure if the youth from my ward wanted me to join them or not, so I just found a chair where no one was sitting and sat there by myself

Later on we went to classes and it was a lot of fun, my first class was dating, which didn't really have me learn anything new, I'm 19 years old and been on a couple of dates already, I know how to act like a gentleman and so on

But the next class was "Who you really are" It was an amazing class, even though I know I'm a child of God, it was good to feel the spirit in the class and listen to the teacher

then it was a third class on prayer, we listen to this Mormon Message video (I love Mormon Messages so much)

After the classes we played some games, skipping to the parts which stood out to me the most
We then had testimony meeting, it was a very powerful meeting, I love testimony meetings at efy and youth conference, all of the testimonies were great and very powerful, I would like to share a testimony given by a young woman, I do not know her name, or do I know her but her testimony was very powerful

She said this past year she gain a testimony, it didn't come all at once, or was it some big spiritual   experience, like for me, I gain a testimony on prayer from trek which was a big spiritual experience for me, but she said her's came ,  here a little there a little precept upon precept
2nd Nephi 28:30 " For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon aprecept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have."

I know that what she spoke is true, you're testimony doesn't need to come in one big piece, for some it does and for others it's line upon line precept upon precept

I bore my testimony there, I started out with saying I wanted to read the Book of Mormon cover to cover for the first time, I told them of my testimony which I gain by reading the Book of Mormon, I also shared with them that Heavenly Father does know us, he are never forgotten, I recall the time at trek with the blisters and how on the 2nd night I prayed and pleaded  for strength and I  received the  my answer, it was a huge spiritual  experience for me, and I'll never forget it

I would recommend you all to read Alma chapter 32
I know that  by small and simple things are great things brought to pass (Alma 37:6-7)
These small and simple things can be saying our prayers, reading the scriptures, and so on

Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it

I graduated, so now what? (My plans)

Well, I'm done with high school and seminary, a lot of people been asking me what are my plans now, so I have told them, so why not tell you guys as well.

My plans are to work at UPS, loading the trucks, getting money to help pay for my mission and sending my papers (Mission papers) in August, and leaving around October-November for the mission

And of course, part of the plan is to lose more weight, by August I'm hoping to be done with my weight, by the end of the month, but I have doubts I'll be able to be finish with it by then, so August-September 

Also, I have one more Sunday in my ward before we move (We're not sure if we'll be here for the week after this coming Sunday)

I will miss everyone in the ward, I been in this ward for all my life and grow up knowing everyone

I graduated from seminary tonight, it was very nice, although they only put me down for 3 years of seminary, when I did 4, so I didn't got my diploma, we're going to talk to some people and see if they can fix that because I did do the 4 years 

There's a youth conference coming up this week, and even tho I'm 19 now, I'm going to still go, it will be my last youth conference which is kind of sad 

I'm glad I been in the young men program for 4 years, it really been amazing and this last couple of months with the pilot program been even more amazing, it was just want I needed 

Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it