A Happening

I have been struggling in my life, with things that have been going on. For instance, I don't always like going to church. Sadly it's been like pulling teeth to get me to go lately. I know why this is, it is because What the speakers are talking about and what they are teaching is something that I need to hear in my life. Satan works on me and works on me, and sometimes I don't go and sometimes I go just because I know I have to. Today seemed to be a start of one of those days that I went just because I know I had too. But the talks today were given by two new members of our Little Branch. We only have approximately 30 coming. Well anyway. There were a girl and a guy that I don't know there names that spoke today. She spoke on How to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy with your family. This is something I do struggle with every Sunday. Because I know I don't always keep the sabbath day holy. I watch movies, sleep all day, or just lounge and do nothing that is what we are supposed to be doing. Well, she talked about things that we can do to keep it a holy day. She spoke on how, her normal routine is to go home and change her clothes into her Pjs. and to take a nap. She said that one thing we can do, if we are going to change our clothes is to wear nice attire that will keep us with the spirit during that day. I am fine personally with staying in my dress all Sunday. Sometimes I change and sometimes I do stay in my dress. She spoke on how we can do wholesome activities with our families like Reading our Scriptures, sharing our Testimonies, and doing uplifting activities together.
Then there was a guy that spoke on how we can keep our Daily Lives, so that we can always have the Spirit with us. Today I was in full measure of listening to the Sacrament prayers, and in the end it states, that we may always have his spirit to be with us. The gentleman that spoke, first told us about how his brother called him at one in the morning not to long a go. And he could tell that his brother had been crying, his brother said I need you to come over here right now and asked him to give him a blessing. He drove over there and his brother's wife was gone for the weekend, and the brother said that he just felt like his chest was totally hurting him and he couldn't breath. He said in the blessing he gave him, that the spirit was there with him telling him what he needed to say to help comfort his brother.
He then gave us a couple of scenarios'. Said in the first scenario, that you are watching a movie that has questionable material in it. When the night ended you went straight to bed, and then got a call from a family memember or friend that needed a blessing. Would the spirit be there to help say those things needed to say to that indivitual? The next scenerio is what if your friends wanted you to watch that movie, you said no, and did something else that was worth while, before you went to bed, you prayed and then read your scriptures, and recieved that same phone call. Wouldn't the spirit be more prominant in giving the blessing?
Something that I kept in my mind fervently while he was talking was this. We don't act on anything unless we have thought about it. I want whoever is reading my blog to reread that last sentence. We don't act on anything unless we have thought about it. If we are thinking about horrible things then we will act upon them. If we think things that are wholesome and good then we will act upon them. He gave another scenerio that a guy who lives in Arizona buys a brand new corvette. He said it was red. But No I pictured it to be a gorgeous dark shiny blue he he. In Arizona I guess they have roads that just go straight on through to anywhere. And so people go really really fast. Well this guy who had the corvette, when he would leave would skweel his back wheels and they were really starting to run down. And they were going very bald. One day he see's the free way and he knows that he can just get on that free way and go really really fast. He looks at his bald back tired and he thinks to himself I really should go to the tire store and get new tires. But then he looks up and can see that free way. So what does his thoughts tell him, to just get on the free way and go, he acts on the thoughts he thinks about the most. And gets on the free way he gets his car up to 140 mph. A back tire blows and he wrecks his car. The guy speaking to us said that if we act upon anything, it should be for the good in us. He gave us a scripture in Proverbs 23, i think it was verse 12. which
states. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Then my dad spoke in Sacrament meeting at his church today about Testimonies. What a wonderful talk he gave. To keep our testimonies strong we must bare our Testimonies. Something That I am going to do more often. I bore my testimony last testimony meeting. And I am really really going to push myself to bare it more often. So that I can have his spirit with me always.