Monday, April 22, 2013

Morning walk

Posted by 2DI4 at 10:52 AM

Not bad at ALL although I am using my assistant's computer because the computer people ran a scan on my archaic computer. The message lists 648 threats on there. While most of these are usually ads, there are other things that get on there too. What an annoying mess!!! I can't check in any books and I have to manually write the names of the students and barcodes of EVERY book checked out. It is the start of a new module which makes that especially annoying.

I was thinking about how I manage my finances and how stupid I've been. I can make my account negative 800.00 BUT instead of getting my account positive, I've just continually used that for whatever. If I used that credit for EMERGENCIES like it's intended to be, I could have paid for this damn car. I'm putting myself on a financial diet. I buy A LOT of stuff I don't need AND I eat out a lot even though I have cut down on that. You can still do damage eating out at fast food places. I'm going to write down EVERY penny I spend. I've been looking at my past entries and it hasn't been any different for years. I make too much money to be in this situation. I still want more however and I need to apply to teach online for the University of Phoenix. Just teaching one class pays 1200 a month. When I quit this job I also want to teach online for Stevens-Henager College. I won't teach more than 2 classes a module. That'll give me an extra couple thousand dollars a month to play with along with my full time job.

I should be grateful my family ISN'T helping me. I think knowing they are always there to help me hasn't served me well. I've curbed my spending in a lot of areas BUT I haven't in a lot too. Logan has helped me in more than one way. This is something I've had a problem with for years. I should have a savings account with more than the minimum in it. I haven't specifically prayed for help with this. I need to do that.

I didn't get up on time and I was freaking out about how long it would take me to walk here. It took about 20-30 minutes. I could have cooked something but I didn't know that for sure.

I read my scriptures and a conference talk yesterday but I didn't write about it. OF COURSE I did. When my life is crazy I NEED that.

2 Nephi 10
 21 But great are the promises of the Lord unto them who are upon the aisles of the sea; wherefore as it says isles, there must needs be more than this, and they are inhabited also by our brethren.
I like that ISLANDS are mentioned AT ALL in the scriptures. I do feel the islands are extremely blessed and that I've been blessed. Yesterday in church our Sunday School teacher asked us to think about our 5 greatest possessions. I thought I don't have any. I appreciate my car now that I'm not using it but even if I was driving the silver Mercedes SUV I should be driving, it's still just a car. There is nothing physical I NEED. I love shopping and I love clothes and I have a lot of them BUT I can start over again if I need to do that. I like diamonds and all sorts of material things BUT I think living in Tonga when I was younger showed me how temporary all that stuff is in this life. I love my family and I am grateful for so many blessings BUT none of the things I appreciate are material things. OK, maybe not. I appreciate my townhouse. I'm glad I don't have a roommate. My next and LAST roommate will be my husband. That is probably going to be the hardest part of marriage for me. People are messy and that drives me insane!!! I NEVER feel good until everything's clean.

 2 Nephi 11 
2 And now I, Nephi, write amore of the words of bIsaiah, for my soul delighteth in his words. For I will liken his words unto my people, and I will send them forth unto all my children, for he verily csaw my dRedeemer, even as I have seen him.
6 And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people that asave Christ should come all men must perish.
I get how his soul delights in the words of Isaiah. I think his soul in verse 6 delights in missionary work. That is sooo NOT hard for me to get too. There is NOTHING I've ever enjoyed more. I lived on VERY little on my mission. Why didn't I learn then???!!!

 The Gospel to All the World - John B. Dixon

The gospel in Africa is going to a happy people, very unencumbered by the trappings that affect the lives of many in the West. They are not concerned about having endless material possessions.
It has been said of Africans that they have very little of that which matters least and a great deal of that which matters most. They have little interest in enormous homes and the finest cars but great interest in knowing their Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, and in having eternal families. As a natural result of their faith, the Lord is lifting them in meaningful ways.
I really don't care about material possessions either. However. I need to be a wise steward of what I have been given. That is what I STILL need to work on. Why has it taken me so long? I keep thinking I've got this but then this is a huge wake-up call for me.
We Believe in Being Chaste - Elder David A. Bednar

Our physical bodies make possible a breadth, a depth, and an intensity of experience that simply could not be obtained in our premortal existence. 


 The unique combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional capacities of both males and females was needed to enact the plan of happiness. “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11). The man and the woman are intended to learn from, strengthen, bless, and complete each other.
Complete sexual abstinence before marriage and total fidelity within marriage protect the sanctity of this sacred channel.
The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father’s plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power. Specific guidelines for the proper use of the ability to create life are vital elements in the Father’s plan. How we feel about and use that supernal power will determine in large measure our happiness in mortality and our destiny in eternity.

“Outside the bonds of marriage, all uses of the procreative power are to one degree or another a sinful degrading and perversion of the most divine attribute of men and women” (“The Great Plan of Happiness,”Ensign, Nov. 1993, 74).
Rather, they are in mortality one of the ultimate expressions of our divine nature and potential and a way of strengthening emotional and spiritual bonds between husband and wife. We are agents blessed with moral agency and are defined by our divine heritage as children of God—and not by sexual behaviors, contemporary attitudes, or secular philosophies.
In contrast, the “man [or woman] of Christ” (Helaman 3:29) is spiritual and bridles all passions (see Alma 38:12), is temperate and restrained, and is benevolent and selfless. Men and women of Christ lay hold upon the word of God, deny themselves and take up His cross (see Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; D&C 56:2), and press forward along a strait and narrow course of faithfulness, obedience, and devotion to the Savior and His gospel
The precise nature of the test of mortality, then, can be summarized in the following question: Will I respond to the inclinations of the natural man, or will I yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit and put off the natural man and become a saint through the Atonement of Christ the Lord (see Mosiah 3:19)? That is the test. Every appetite, desire, propensity, and impulse of the natural man may be overcome by and through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We are here on the earth to develop godlike qualities and to bridle all of the passions of the flesh.
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

President Marion G. Romney declared:
“I can think of no blessings to be more fervently desired than those promised to the pure and the virtuous. Jesus spoke of specific rewards for different virtues but reserved the greatest, so it seems to me, for the pure in heart, ‘for they,’ said he, ‘shall see God’ (Matt. 5:8). And not only shall they see the Lord, but they shall feel at home in his presence.
“Here is … the Savior’s promise: ‘Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God’ (D&C 121:45)” (“Trust in the Lord,” Ensign, May 1979, 42).
We also are promised that, as we pursue the pathway of virtue, “the Holy Ghost shall be [our] constant companion” (D&C 121:46). Thus, living the law of chastity invites some of the greatest blessings men and women can receive in mortality: appropriate spiritual confidence in the presence of family, friends, Church associates, and, ultimately, the Savior. Our innate longing to belong is fulfilled in righteousness as we walk in the light with hope.
The doctrine I have described will seem to be archaic and outdated to many people in a world that increasingly mocks the sanctity of procreation and minimizes the worth of human life. But the Lord’s truth is not altered by fads, popularity, or public opinion polls. I promise that obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. Chastity and virtue are now, always have been, and always will be “most dear and precious above all things” (Moroni 9:9). I so testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
I know I took A LOT of quotes from here but his talk was sooo good. It was my favorite that I got to hear in person. 

 

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