Day 7 to Day 9: I am Grateful for

This post shares three days worth of three things what I am grateful for.

Day 7: I am grateful for My Life. Why am I Grateful for My Life?

I am Grateful for My Life because I have achieved many things in this life so far, I have learnt many things in this life so far such as I can learn from the past, I can learn from my mistakes and errors, etc, I learnt to have a great understanding of my feelings, and many other things.

I encourage you to think about the following three questions in your own time:
Are you proud of your good achievements in this life so far?
Are you realising that everything changes? Are you grateful for your life?
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Day 8: I am grateful for My Qualifications and Certificates. Why am I Grateful for My Qualifications and Certificates?

I am Grateful for My Qualifications and Certificates because I like studying, I know that I have timeless time and effort towards my Qualifications and Certificates, it's always a great feeling to have whenever I finish a Certificate or Qualification, I always love learning something new, and sometimes with the things that I have learned that I am able to apply it to my life.

I encourage you to think about the following questions.
What qualifications or/and short certificates courses have you completed in this life so far?
What degree or short certificate course are you currently studying towards?
Are you still thinking of what you want to be?

If you are studying towards a degree or a short certificate course, is it something that you want to do for a career choice? Are you grateful for your Qualifications and Certificates that you have achieved if you have any?

"Thankful and grateful."

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Day 9: I am Grateful for My Friends who is serving their Missions. 
Why am I grateful for your friends who is serving their mission?

I am grateful because I am happy and proud of their decision to serve their missions. I know Heavenly Father is watching over them and their families as each day and each night goes by. I always love reading their mission stories each week, I always love sharing with them about my highlights that has happened during my week, I always love learning something new from each of them almost every week, etc.

You may ask me the following two questions,  "How do your friend's mission experiences has helped you?" and "How their experiences makes you feel?"

Their experiences helps me to build a stronger testimony about Missionary Work. Some of their experiences makes me feel happy and joy; some of their experiences makes me laugh, and some of their experiences makes me cry.

On some weeks; what they say to me, is something I need to hear at the time.

On some weeks; they ask me some questions for me to answer the following week.
On some weeks; whatever they say to me, is something for me to do.

Are you grateful for any of your friends who are serving their missions at the moment?
Has any of their experiences has helped you in your life?

Stay tuned until next time.

Brightness of Hope

This post is based on a October 1994 General Conference talk and it is called, "Brightness of Hope" by Neal A. Maxwell.

After I finished reading a few paragraphs of the talk, I thought about that the talk will make a great blog post based. I encourage you to think about your definition of Hope. I would like to share with you, some highlights while I was reading the talk and I hope you will learn something new while you are reading the post.

Neal A. Maxwell mentions,

"Hope helps us to walk by faith, not by sight. This can actually be safer. When unaided spiritually, natural sight often shrinks from the odds (see 2 Cor. 5:7). It is immobilized by improbabilities. Mauled by his moods and intimidated by his fears, the natural man overreacts to, while hope overrides, the disappointments of the day.

Hope is particularly needed in the hand-to-hand combat required to put off the natural man (see Mosiah 3:19). Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

By pressing forward, we can stand on what was yesterday’s horizon, thereby drawing hope from our own experiences. Hence Paul described how “tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope” (Romans. 5:3–4).

Only the acceptance of the revelations of God can bring both direction and correction and, in turn, bring a “brightness of hope” (2 Nephi. 31:20). Real hope does not automatically “spring eternal” unless it is connected with eternal things!

“What is it that ye shall hope for?” Moroni wrote. “Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ” (Moro. 7:41; see also Alma 27:28). From this triumphal act, resulting in the eventual resurrection of all mankind, so many lesser hopes derive their significance!

"Press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God."

You and I can be repeatedly reassured concerning this grand hope by the Comforter, who teaches us the truth about “things as they really are, and … really will be” (Jacob 4:13; see also Moroni. 8:26). Such hope constitutes the “anchor of the soul” (Hebrews. 6:19). Such hope is retained through faith in Christ (see Alma 25:16; Ether 12:9). In contrast, a resurrection-less view of life produces only proximate hope (see 1 Corthians. 15:19).

Having ultimate hope does not mean we will always be rescued from proximate problems, but we will be rescued from everlasting death! Meanwhile, ultimate hope makes it possible to say the same three words used centuries ago by three valiant men. They knew God could rescue them from the fiery furnace, if He chose. “But if not,” they said, nevertheless, they would still serve Him! (Daniel. 3:18.)

Faith and hope are constantly interactive, and may not always be precisely distinguished or sequenced. Though not perfect knowledge either, hope’s enlivened expectations are “with surety” true (Ether 12:4; see also Romans. 8:24; Hebrews. 11:1; Alma 32:21). In the geometry of restored theology, hope has a greater circumference than faith. If faith increases, the perimeter of hope stretches correspondingly.

Humble hope helps us to improve by being sufficiently free of ego to ask, “Lord, is it I?” (Matthew. 26:22.) Submissive hope also readies us to “give away all [our] sins” because we have come to know Jesus, who alone can take them! (Alma 22:18.)"

I encourage you to read the whole talk in your own time. Here's the link below,
www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/10/brightness-of-hope

Stay Tuned until next time.

Day 4 to Day 6: I am Grateful for

This post shares three days worth of three things what I am grateful for.

Day 4: I am grateful for Missionary Work. Why am I grateful for Missionary Work?

I am Grateful for Missionary Work because I always love sharing the gospel with others, I always get to experience what it is like to be a Sister Missionary already, I always learning something new when I go with the Missionaries, it always helps me to build a stronger testimony about Missionary Work and many other reasons. 

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Day 5: I am Grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Religion a.k.a. LDS or Mormon Guidelines. Why am I Grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Religion a.k.a. LDS or Mormon Guidelines?

I am Grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Religion a.k.a. LDS or Mormon Guidelines. because I know that the Guidelines of the religion wouldn't ever change, not even once and the guidelines were set to keep the church members safe and happy.

I do know whenever I don't follow the guidelines correctly, I don't feel the Holy Ghost promptings, I don't feel peace, I don't feel happy, I don't feel joy, I don't feel comfort, and so much more. However I do know whenever I do follow the guidelines correctly, I always feel the Holy Ghost promptings, I feel peace, I feel happy, I feel joy, I feel comfort and so much more.

I encourage you to ask yourself the following three questions in your own time.

When you don't listen to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Religion a.k.a. LDS or Mormon Guidelines correctly, how does it makes you feel? Are you grateful that there are guidelines?

"Gratitude is the best attitude."

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Day 6: I am Grateful for Safety and Protection. Why am I grateful for Safety and Protection?

I am Grateful for Safety and Protection because I love seeing signs about keeping me safe and protected, I love getting to places safely and protected, I always put my faith and trust that I will go to places safely either by driving to or riding a bike to or walking to or catching a train to or catching a bus to or catching a plane to and some other reasons too.

In this world;  I know there are type of people who would take someone by deceiving her or him (such as tricking them about something isn't true), I know there are type of people who lie about their age on Facebook (for those who has Facebook, needs to be extremely careful who they talk to on Facebook), etc.

You get the idea. I know there are signs to keep people safe and protected when they are obedient to the signs. I encourage you to think about these two following questions:

Do you put your faith and trust that you will get to places safely?

Are you grateful for Safety and Protection?

Stay tuned until next time.