My love for my Savior

My love for my Savior <3
I wish to talk about my feelings on Section 45 of the Doctrine & Covenants. I was reading through this Section and so many things were going through my mind of how grateful I am for The Savior. Verse 7 states, "For verily I say unto you that I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the light and the life of the world—a light that shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not." I love this verse because it means so much. That we cannot even choose sides really. We have to be with the Savior, at all times, and in all things that we chose to do in this life. I have read similar verses to this and just kept thinking about how we need to always have the Savior, Heavenly Father, and the Holy Ghost on our minds, to have them be able to lead us to where we may need to be. The darkness is Satan and we do not need to have him in our life at all.
The path of darkness, is loneliness, wallowing in self pity, lives have no direction, meaning, or love. I know that I don't even want to be stepping one foot towards Satans foot holds.
I have a story from this week, of something that happened and that has just really bothered me. And this may be more of a vent than anything. I have a sister in Idaho Falls, that I do love her dearly, but she has no direction, she just uses people, and she uses my family from time to time to get what she wants. My dad had his birthday on Monday and then Today Friday was my dad's retirement. So Thursday we invited her for Dinner at a Resturant. We just told her to come and meet us at this place and she didn't have money so my grandmother said that she would pay for her. I dunno what would go through her mind in thinking that it was okay for her to bring her boyfriend and her boyfriends daughter, not even asking if it was okay to bring them, and she didn't even have money for them, and had my grandmother pay for her and also them at this restaurant. My grandma said she went to the front to pay and they all just stood there til she paid and then they came in and ate, and then they left.
I have been thinking that I need my Saviors help in understanding what goes through a persons head when they are in a place where they only think of themselves. I really really try to think of others, and how others want to be treated. My grandmother was not happy, and we were all not happy once we left the parking lot of this place.
I just sat there was thinking of how the Savior would have acted in this situation and he was used, beaten, and he died on the cross for us. So I think that my forgiveness of my sister is one of the things that I need to work on. He wouldn't want me to be mad. I re-read this verse over and over again this evening, considering I have been mad at my sister. In verse 6 "Hearken, O ye people of my church, and ye elders listen together, and hear my voice while it is called today, and harden not your hearts;"
Also, I have been thinking a lot about the Second Coming of the Savior from these Sections in the Doctrine and Covenants. There are several times, where it talks about some of the things that shall come to pass when the Second Coming is near. From verse 16 "And I will show it plainly as I showed it unto my disciples as I stood before them in the flesh, and spake unto them, saying: As ye have asked of me concerning the signs of my coming, in the day when I shall come in my glory in the clouds of heaven, to fulfil the promises that I have made unto your fathers,"
I also looked up some of the scriptures about the Second Coming for the Topical Guide in the back. and like 3 Nephi 24:2, "But who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth?"
I am going to continue to think of my feelings for the Savior this week. I am going to work on forgiveness of others. I know that I am not perfect in anyway, and if I were to do something that made others mad, I would want them to give me.

Niceness Pass it on.

Oh how I miss Walt Disney World. I cannot believe that how much I miss it there at Walt Disney World. While I was there, I definitely hated working at Wide World of Sports now called ESPN Wide World of Sports. I hated it there for a few reasons. I disliked it because I was sometimes thrown out at a cart for either Softball, Baseball, Soccer, or at the store in the Cafeteria. I only hated it because while I was at these different carts or venues, I was all alone. I am a people person, and a lot of times the people coming to these events would wait until the very last day, to buy their t-shirts or their hates, mugs, or whatever that had to do with their events. I was sooo bored. I didn't hate the place in general, I just hated to be a lone. I had times where I was bored out of my mind that I was seriously contemplating just death as an option to how much fun I was having doing the store in that area. I was hot, hot, hot, and I don't really like being hot and I was terrible hot when I was standing outside and doing the carts at the baseball and softball. :( Another thing that I can say about WWS, is that I didn't like it there because of some of the demanding people. I wanna share about one time when I was at WWS there was a Cheer leading tournament going on and I already dislike cheerleaders as it is, and I believe this was called Pop Warner, and there was a time when I was in the store with just one other person, and the phone rang there in the D-sports and so I answered it. It was a very angry mother that said that her daughters t-shirt from the cheer leading event and some other items I think it was a Sweat Shirt had been stolen from their hotel room. And so she was demanding that I find another t-shirt and sweat shirt and whatever else was stolen and make sure that I had it up front for her and as soon as possible because she was in a taxi and was on her way back to D-Sports right then. I told her I would see what I could do. I stupidly gave her my name as well. But then as I was calling around on the walkies to see if we had these items in the sizes she needed, I was then asked by my supervisor to run to the Cave and to get a bunch of items that were needed to be put up to fill in the holes in D-Sports. So I am going to do what my supervisor says. I knew that this lady called but I was busy getting the items that Dan wanted me to get. I get back from the Cave and this dumb lady had arrived and she asked Chris for me, and so Chris found me and I was supposed to have supposedly have found these items for her. I say to her that I was busy getting items for my supervisor and she says, something of how dare I not get these items for her, and that I was more important than listening to my supervisor and on and on. Ha ha ha. Soo... I ask Chris if He could call around and see if there are any of the sizes she needs and we don't have the sizes she needs, so then she wants my supervisor. We get Dan there to D-sports she starts yelling at him that I was supposed to have everything ready for her, and I look at him, and I say I am sorry I was in the Cave getting the items you specifically asked for, so we go up to the Milk House and were able to find some items for her, she got the t-shirt and sweat shirts, but they weren't the size she needed. You know I didn't mind this whole situation at all other than the fact, that I don't know why people have to be rude, and why they feel they have to be so demanding.
I also worked at Epcot's Mouse Gear, Oh how I loved and adored that place. It was busy (not always) but most the time I was really really busy. I didn't even mind when people wanted to ship everything they were buying home, or have their items sent back to their resort. I loved this place. I Loved everything about it. (NOT EVERYDAY OF COURSE). But I liked having kids to pin trade with, I love doing the little games with the kids having them match up the princes and the princesses. I liked it there so much. I didn't mind people getting to worked up about things when I was working here at MG. I liked all the people. Yes I had people that would get mad if we didn't have their size and stuff like that, but I didn't get yelled at here at MG as much as I got yelled at at WWS.
At both places I love love love all the people I got to work with and grow so closely with. I miss them all.
I have decided that I am really really going to be a nice person to everyone. I think that I am a nice person for the most part, and I hope that I can pass my niceness on to everyone. :) I sounded cocky just then. I didn't meant to be cocky. I just hope that I can be more Christlike everyday. And pass love onto everyone.

Slowing Down

Yesterday, we were in Idaho Falls, and there was a Truck that hit a motorcycle and the guy on the motorcycle didn't have his helmet on. It happened on Hitt Road and we happened to be heading home that way. While we were being re-routed that basically reminded my dad of the truck and semi wreck that my dad had driven past yesterday on the road south of Ashton. From what it sounds like the guy in the truck was probably trying to pass someone and in doing so he actually hit head one with a semi truck. My dad said that what it looked like is the guy was probably dead because the whole front of the truck was bashed in and there was a blanket over the front of the truck. When we watched the news yesterday both accidents had a death occur. This made me think really really hard about how short life is. It also made me think that in life we all need to take more time. Take time to pay more attention to what is actually around us. Also, we need to wear protection. I was sad to hear that the guy on the motorcycle died instantly, because he didn't have on his helmet. We all need to care more about those around us, and we all need to slow down.

Remembering Mono on my mission.

I decided to share some funny moments from my mission. I remember a lot of stuff from my mission and I am going to blog about some memories that happened while on my mission. Did I ever tell you that there was a mono outbreak on my mission? It was soo strange. It was at a weird time that it even happened on the mission. It started happening right when we switched from my first mission President Friden to my second mission President. We think that it must have been the first trial that the second mission President , President Barney and his wife had to get through or something. It was weird. Okay so this is kinda all I remember with it starting. There were two Elder’s in my District. We called them the Traveling Elder’s, because they went to every Fair, or event that had a place for us to put up the table and share about Family History.
Anyway, they called us and told us that they both had Mono, LOL we were like how in the world did you guys get mono? We were like what are you Elder’s doing out there at all these Fairs, and events. Totally just joking around with them. During this time, I had been with my companion Sister Reynders. She was on her last transfer and was getting ready to go home. We bought little ice creams like Dreyers and Breyers and a bunch of different little ice creams and we shared them all the time. So I didn’t even think anything about it. She went home and found out that she had mono, but I had no Idea that she had it, then I ended up with a sister, not even kidding you. Her name is Sister Mano. Pronounced MONO, like the mono that was going around. Not kidding around at all. I was falling asleep at teaching appointments, I couldn't stay awake in the car, I would almost pass out at church. I would almost pass out during scripture reading with her. So then she was like Sister Morgan I think you have Mono. I was like I dunno. We checked and sure enough I had Mono. Then during this time, I switched companions, and I got Sister Robinson. She got Mono, and then when we found out she had mono. We got a call from Sister Barney the Mission President’s Wife and she said Sister Morgan, you and Sister Robinson are not allowed to go out and work. Don’t leave your apartment and do any of your appointments until Either President Barney or I, or the Dr. Get back to you and let you know when you can go back to teaching.
Seriously I don’t think that we would have even be able to have gone out and did any teaching, or tr-acting. Sister Robinson and I slept 18 – 20 hours a day. And then when we did get up, we would read a little bit. And a sister in the ward brought us all of her church videos and her tv/vcr combo and we would watch a few of the Church videos and then we would sleep and sleep and sleep. We didn’t hear anything from the Mission president or his wife in three weeks. Not even kidding. We had ward members that came over and cooked for us, but neither I or Sis. Robinson were even that hungry. But I remember the ward members were sooo great to us. Some of the ward members were freaked out that they thought Gosh are we going to get Mono from these sisters since we have been around them before they got Quarantined? So no one from the ward got it and we told them that they should be fine. I loved that ward so much.
Oh yeah And I forgot to mention this. HA HA. Since we got quarantined we were being funny and decided to put of a Scarlet colored piece of paper, in other words we made A Letter “M” as a joke that we were quarantined with Mono. We put this Red "M" on our Door as a joke. Well like three weeks later we were still a little weak but our bodies must have got some of the rest it needed and we got a call from Sister Barney that we were having Mission Conference and that we needed to be there, so a ward member drove us of there and when we got there we were literally sat at the back of the chapel with all the other elder’s and sisters that had gotten Mono in our zone. I don’t remember how many people that were in the back with us but I believe there were about 20 of us. Not even kidding. So all the other Elder’s and Sisters that didn’t have Mono were in the front of the Chapel and they us that had been told we had mono in the back. We had Mission Conference, and then they took us in the other room, where all of us that were sick met with the Mission Dr. and he told us that we probably got Mono through just have general contact with each other. You know that we would see the Elder’s and we would shake hands with them, and we had the sick germ on our hands and didn’t know it, and that is how we must have passed it. Ha ha ha so no I wasn’t having make out sessions with the Elder’s I Promise. LOL.
We were told to stay inside for another week and get some more rest, that was just for me and Sister Robinson. Some other Elder’s and sisters had been in longer than us, and were getting a lot better and were able to go back to work. I remember that we had to go and meet with the Dr. again and he just mainly checked up on us to see if we felt like we were ready to go back to work again. And Sister Robinson and I eventually went back out and did the Lord’s work once again.
The Mission Dr. Said that once you get Mono it never ever leaves the body, but if you take care of your body, you shouldn’t have another episode with it. When I was in college one time like 6 years a go, I did have another episode where Mono knocked me on my butt once again. But I got over it a lot quicker than a month. I remember being totally tired and unable to even keep my eyes open for a week or so. And then it passed. So I hope I care for myself so I don’t have to have another Mono episode again. It was soo not fun.

Prayer

For my D&C class I am supposed to do a lesson on something that stuck out to me from one of my readings. I was reading from D&C 19:38 "Pray always, and I will pour out my Spirit upon you, and great shall be your blessing-- yea, even more than if you should obtain treasure of earth and corruptibleness to the extent thereof." Prayer has been on my mind a lot lately, and I have had a hard time throughout my life remembering to pray always. Like this scripture states. There are times here and there that I have been praying, like when I need something or when something goes wrong or as cue in my life then I feel down and then I turn to Heavenly Father. I set a goal at the beginning of this week to pray in the morning and pray in the evening. And thus far I have been doing it. I have had it in my mindset throughout this whole week. I even when I started my prayer I asked Heavenly Father to help me to remember to pray. And I have felt so much better. I am thankful for answered prayers, I am thankful to have his spirit there to lead me and guide me. You know, I have felt such a difference, I have felt like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. So if you are going through a hard time, think of one of my favorite hymns, "Did you think to Pray?"