Besides Sunday, Tuesday is my favorite day. I have the wonderful opportunity to go every Tuesday morning to the temple and perform baptisms for the dead. It honestly is thee greatest way to start off my day and it completes my week :) This morning was quite a beautiful one. After i walked out of the temple, i walked a little ways then just stood there, closed my eyes, and took in a deep refreshing breathe. I was just soakin up the beauty of the temple grounds and of the earth. One of my favorite things about the mornings is birds churping/singing. It ALWAYS brings to mind the song from primary called My Heavenly Father Loves Me...probably more known by it's first line..."Whenever I hear the song of a bird, or look at the blue, blue sky...." and so on. That is probably one of my favorite songs. It reminds me to take a step back away from my own life and look at this amazing and beautiful world God has created that most of us just look past. I love the grass and the trees and birds, flowers, the gorgeous blue sky, the wind and fresh air. It makes me soo happy :) alright I'll quit with that but just know i love this earth. Another plus from being at the temple was that i saw the Easter Pageant stage almost complete constructed up. It made me soo excited. I can't express how extactic i am to be in the Easter Pageant this year and to be able to have this experience with friends as well. First practice starts this upcoming Saturday!! I am stoked. It truely is an honor. So aside from all that my weekly visit to the temple was a pleasure as always. What a priviledge it is to be able to have temples and to be able to go inside and perform baptisms of the dead. I think alot of us look at it as something that we would love to do rather than what an honor and priviledge it is. This past Sunday i was actually thinking of so many things we don't view as priviledges. Like bearing our testimonies. From the time i was in primary up until like this past November, i had never bore my testimony. I have a fear of talking in front of people. For some reason though, the past three fast and testimony meetings something other than my own two legs (and the added pounding of my heart that i can in no way ignore) has gotten me up on the stand to bear my testimony which is something i never in my life thought i would be able to do. It's just a scary thing to get up in front of a bunch of people, especially a singles ward, and speak. It's not even so much of the fact of expressing how much i love the gospel and testify of its truth because i could do that everyday all day long, but it's just that my words get messed up and i never say things right and i dunno....i never feel like i get my point across either and i also never get to say everything i want to say. This past Sunday though, I realized that it is such a wonderful thing that we are able to have about 40 minutes once a month to be able to hear and sometimes bear our testimonies and to express our love of the Gospel. I have been able to get alittle more comfortable since I've gone up three times now haha and I'm so grateful for that and that my nerves have been calmed alittle bit. Anyway, i always end up talking too much about one little thing. Other things i realized that are priviledges are having the scriptures. I think we take them for granted at time. Take a second to think where we would all be without them. We learn so much from them or at least i know i do. I cherish my scripture study time :) I love getting lost in the scriptures and learning something new and finding a way to apply it to my life or to just come to the realization of something so simple that i never thought of before. I challenge all of us to really look at the scriptures especially the Book of Mormon as such a priviledge to have. Other things are prayer. I am so grateful for the power of prayer. The fact that there has been made a way possible to speak to our Heavenly Father from here on earth is a blessing that i will never be able to express my gratitude for in writing or in anyway for that matter. And it's so simple, we just get on our knees and we can speak to him anytime and anywhere. Prayer is incredible to me. A personal thing i look at as a priviledge that most would look at as a sacrifice is serving a mission. My reasoning for lookin at it as a priviledge is probably because i have the strongest desire in my heart to serve the people of the world and to preach the Gospel and to give them knowledge and inform them of the blessings the atonement can bring to pass in their own lives.
Whether it's the Lords will to have my serve a mission or not. I will be a missionary wherever i am and whomever i come in contact with. I just want to take part in helping bring our brothers and sisters home. So this post is incredibly long and if you have read it, bless your heart cause you probably wanted to stop reading after the first novel. haha. When i get talkin about stuff i am passionate about, i don't realize how in depth or involved i get in it or the longevity of it. I absolutely love my life and i have thee greatest friends in the world and i know i probably say that in alot of my post but i can't help but feel obligated to express my gratitude for the things i have in my life. ( hmm....so random but The Office is on in the background and as i was typing "express my gratitude" Michael Scott was saying it at thee exact same time. haha. sorry about that) I can't think of anything else at the moment to add so ill conclude with a challenge for everyone to see the wonderful things we have as priviledges and see what we can do to help them to better our lives :)
No comments:
Post a Comment