A Short Little Update.

Sorry for not posting for the last couple of weeks, I just didn't know what to blog about ha.

Last night was pretty fun, me and some friends went and watch the movie "Just Let Go"  it's the true story of Chris Williams. I didn't know it was a live event, so before the movie started people were talking live to the people in front of them, and people across the US who were in the theaters.

The movie was playing for one night only, but I would say to get it on dvd once it comes out, it was pretty good. Here is the Mormon Message, that Chris was in,
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zwQ_7q-fU

Conference is coming up this week and I'm pretty excited for that, I have some questions and I know they will get answered.  If you haven't already read about the first time I had a question for Conference and it was answered here it is. so please come up with a question for yourself too... it actually works.

I really like Conference, because of all the talks being given and the great council you get. when I was younger I didn't paid much attention to it, but when I was older I started  do more.

I don't really have much to say at this moment. sorry for the short post, next week will be longer, I'll need to come up with topics ahead of time, like what I was doing before.

Listen to this song, that was in the movie.. it was pretty great, it was actually how I learn about the movie... I listen to it a lot haha.

Developing Our Talents

This past Sunday I gave a lesson in gospel principles, the lesson was on developing our talents. It's a good topic and so this post will be about that as well. 

Everyone of us, were given talents, special gifts and abilities. We should use these to help strengthen each other, during the great, and not so great parts of life.

In the GP book, it reads "Sometimes we think we do not have many talents or that other people have been blessed with more abilities then we possess. Sometimes we do not use our talents because we are afraid that we might fail or be criticized by others. We should not hide our talents. We should use them." 

I remember when I was 10-13 years old, I asked my mom if I had any talents, because I didn't see myself having any. I saw some other people talents and abilities, but I couldn't see my own. 

"But Michael, I actually feel the like that, I don't see myself having any talents at all" 

In the GP book, it list 6 things... I'll just call them the 6 tips.

1) There are certain things we must do to develop our talents, First we must discover our talents. We should evaluate ourselves to find our strengths and abilities. Our family and friends can help us do this. We should also ask our Heavenly Father to help us learn about our talents

2) We must be willing to spend the time and effort to develop the talent we are seeking.

3) We must have faith that our Heavenly Father will help us, and we must have faith in ourselves 

4) We must learn the skills necessary for us to develop our talents. We might do this by taking a class, asking a friend to teach us, or reading a book.

5) We must practice using our talents. Every talent takes effort and work to develop. The master of a talent must be earned

6) We must share our talents with others. It is by our using our talents that they grow

All of these steps are easier if we pray and seek the Lord's help. He wants us to develop our talents, and He will help us.

Those are really great tips. if you don't put in any effort into discovering the talents, you won't develop them. Share your talents so you'll become better with the talent and they will grow.

And sometimes... we must go through a trial before we discover a talent/gift/abilities

For me, I had to go through growing up with Aspergers and how hard that was for me, but from that trial, I learn to write. I could of stopped writing once things got better, I could of not share my poetry to others, I was on and off with writing for awhile, I could of stopped then and never write poetry again. because I didn't see my poetry as good, I was confused with how people could possible like my poetry. 

But now I see how much my poetry can help and strengthen other people, I'm glad I still write today.

We can still develop our talents during our weakness. 

If you've read some of my earlier blog posts, you would know that I want to become a speaker to the youth within the church. to be able to do that.. you actually have to speak, I have had the fear because of my speech, would I even be able to become a speaker?. but since I've been teaching in church more often, I can actually see myself becoming one. I will still stutter every so often, but yeah, that's my weakness. I liked what it says in the GP book

"Because we are mortal and fallen, we have weaknesses. With the Lord's help, our weakness and fallen nature can be overcome. Beethoven composed his greatest music after he was deaf. Enoch overcame his slowness of speech to become a powerful teacher" 

I really like the end of that... Enoch overcame his slowness of speech to become a powerful teacher. I think of myself as a good teacher, not a "powerful" teacher ha, but I can use that to relate to what I want to become... a speaker.

This is also from the GP book.

Heber J Grant overcame many of his weakness and turned them into talents. He had as a motto these words "That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do, not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased"

"But Michael, that's all nice and all... but I can't sing, write, make art, not good with making things with my hands etc, I don't have any talents" 

Oh, my young padawan.

Sometimes talents aren't meant for the stage, talents could be, being patient, understanding of others, being cheerful, being a good teacher/leader the list can go on, don't think about being in a talent show, but being in a variety show.

We're all here to help uplift each other. 

I wrote this poem for the lesson I gave. 

Hello, I am your talent

Listen to what I have to say

I may not fit in on the center stage

I'm with you everyday

Patience, cheerfulness, a good listener, to name a few

Are things I could be

No voice of an angel, no art in my hands,

Not all talents fit the same door, there's multiple keys

You may not notice me

But others around do

It's your actions which speak volumes

I am what people turn to

You worry you have no talents

Nothing to show

That you are doing nothing special

But if you only knew, you help people to grow

Now you see

With what I had to say

I'm your talent

You've seen my view

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Listen to your talents.

To end this post, watch this video 

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

Trying new things.

Hey, so this post will be about my idea I had for sometime with vlogging, it's like blogging.. but you record it and talk instead of typing it out for people to read

I'll still be making posts every Tuesday on my blog, the vlogs will be about my weight loss progress, and I plan to vlog about other things too.

It's going to be difficult at first, because it's talking vs typing, but I'll get use to it and get better with it.

I'll leave a link to my vlog in this post, but yeah.. I hope you guys like it, don't worry because it'd get better for sure ha. yesterday when I was making this vlog I thought "What did I got myself into?" I kept messing up and only was able to get those "okay" clips... so yeah, a month or longer I should be a lot better.

But yeah.. trying new things, we'll see how this goes.

This post is kinda sort.. but I'll give you with a scripture Jacob 6:12 "O be wise, what can I say more?"

When you think of it, it's great... you know the Gospel, have a testimony etc, when you have that.. it's basically "Be wise, what can I say more?"