8/31/12- Update

Hey, sorry for not posting for awhile, I just wasn't feeling in the right mood to post.
Here's an update with my weight, my clothes are fitting really good now, the scale is broken so I don't know my weight, but I do know I'm losing weight, clothes are fitting more, even the clothes which were tight before. so that is good.

I took couple of pictures, of books which I should be reading to prepare myself even more for my mission, I'll put them in the blog so you can see them.

Preach my Gospel, along with a oil holder, forgot the name of it.

Here is Preach my Gospel, Tools for Missionaries and Prepare with Honor.

 Tools for Missionaries, Preach my Gospel, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Knowing Christ, Mormon Doctrine, Prepare with Honor, Preparing to enter the Holy Temple.

Here are three pictures which I have on the table by my bed, the first one is one of  my favorite  scriptures, D&C 121: 1-9 "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high, thou shalt triumph over all they foes. Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands"
And the white piece of paper you see is a quote from a General Conference talk "Real repentance, real change may require repeated attempts, but there is something refining and holy in such striving. Divine forgiveness and healing flow quite naturally to such a soul, for indeed "virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; and mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own" (D&C 88:40) D. Todd Christofferson- The Divine Gift of Repentance"
then I added this part at the end "We need to be agents unto ourselves-- D&C 29:39

I will try my best to read as much as I can from the books I have place before you all, feel free to ask how I'm going with reading, as I might forget to read at times.

The Power of the Atonement

Hello readers,
As you can tell by the title, "The Power of the Atonement" I will be sharing my insights from what I have learned, as I been studying on my own and from going to institute.

Christ died for our sins and gave us the Atonement, we should use it.. he did it for us, just remember that
If you were like me, and thought for sometime that you can't use his Atonement, I'm not worthy then you're wrong and I was too. You don't understand the Atonement if you think that. his Atonement is there for us, it's an wonderful gift.

I been reading the book The Miracle of Forgiveness. Which is by Spencer W Kimball, I would recommend all of you to get a copy and start reading, and if you're going threw a hard time with sin or anything, it will help you.
from the book
"Repentance the Only way"
Repentance is ever the key to a better, happier life. All of us need it, whether our sins are the grievous ones or the more commonplace. Through repentance we perceive more clearly the contrasts of Paul's statement: "For wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.: (Rom. 6:23) Through repentance we may "be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory: (Moses 6:59)
And there is no other way."

 Read the text here The Laborers in the Vineyard

"I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent in this parable, but however late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines."
What a powerful talk it is, I love General Conference so much
I would also like you guys to check this talk out His Grace is Sufficient
2nd Nephi 25:23 " For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do."
Some people may say "But what is after all we can do?"
Alma 24:11 "And now behold, my brethren, since it has been all that we could do (as we were the most lost of all mankind) to repent of all our sins and the many murders which we have committed, and to get God to take them away from our hearts, for it was all we could do to repent sufficiently before God that he would take away our stain"
After all we can do is repent, use His Atonement and be clean, be changed, be worthy.

God is there for us, he will not let his lost sheep go
2nd Nephi 28:32 "Wo be unto the Gentiles, saith the Lord God of Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts."

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

YSA Conference

I attended the YSA Conference, well... the NWAYSA Conference. it stand for North West (Something, forgot what the A stood for) Young single adult, it was amazing!!

On Saturday I took a couple of classes, the things which stood out to me were the Atonement is there for you,  you don't earn it, the price is paid... Christ died for our sins
If you feel like you're unworthy to use the Atonement, you don't understand the Atonement, I was able to understand the Atonement more clearer then I did before

I also took a class titled "A Mission for me?"

It makes me want to go on my mission even more, the people teaching the class were mission presidents (there where two couples) we were able to write down questions we have about the mission, my question was "If someone have a speech problem, can they go foreign speaking?" the teachers were talking about getting physical ready,one of the couple  a story of someone who went out with the missionaries for a week, and he was overweight and that whole week he lost a pound everyday. Once the story was done being told I raise my hand and told them that I been preparing for my mission, I have lost 25-30lbs already and I will be starting on my papers once I lose some more weight

Then one of the teacher, I forgot his name but he told me that during his time as a mission president they had a couple missionaries who stuttered, and he said that even though they stutter they were able to learn the language I can't wait to learn where I get called to go on my mission and find out if I have to learn a language if I do, it'd be a challenged but I'll be ready to face it, it might get hard at times but I know God will help me 

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

Update 8/1/12

Well it been awhile since I blogged last, so here is what been going on

I been going to the single branch, which I said earlier and it's going good, I have been meeting new people there, been going to the FHE (Family Home Evening) and after FHE some of the people play volleyball I'm not that good with the game but I'm improving.
Haha this week when I was playing volleyball I got hit at the back of my head with the ball, it was very funny the person who threw the ball was asking if I was okay and all that haha, but I was all fine
Also I been working out again, hopefully when I weight myself on Sunday (or Monday) it'd be something good, last time I weighted myself was before I moved and I was at 280.... I'm hoping to be down to 270 or close to 260, but I doubt it'd be to 260 because that would of been 20pounds lost and I don't feel like I have lost 20pounds since then.

I been doing three miles a day along with 50 sit ups and push ups and I been eating less and eating only foods I know I should have, I REALLY don't want to see the scale say "280" this week.
If you would be so kind as to pray about me dropping below the 280 line, please.

When I'm on the treadmill I put on a playlist of Mormon Message Youth videos, and it really brighten my day and it's something I need,  I feel the spirit strongly and at times I'm on the edge of crying ha...
I been watching people opening they're mission calls on youtube, and it just make me want my call now.
But the time will come when I get it.

I'm going to leave a Mormon Message video, which is very powerful and it's one of my favorites

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