Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Student Natalie plans for AMAZING shelves

Posted by 2DI4 at 10:52 AM

I stayed late here last night so Natalie could take measurements for my gorgeous shelves that'll be built in the corner that I have been trying to get done forever. She needs to send me her diagram. I can't wait!!! Materials will cost 450 and she's only charging us 500 so that'll be 10/hour labor for her. I looove what she came up with. I guess I'm meant to be in real estate. I'm so excited about having my shelves and filling them with books.

I have a passion for decor but it was never enough for me to get formal training in. I also don't like working for other people to do that. I like styling myself but I'm not open enough to want to do that for anyone else. I love make-up too BUUUT I am more about doing what I like and want than what someone else wants and likes. I love being a librarian but it is something that exercises my thinking and I love helping people that way and getting paid well to do that. I love English but I don't want to teach. AGAIN, I like it for myself. The only thing I enjoy teaching is the gospel. I will teach BUT I have to be paid enough and I'd never want to do it full time.

My real passion is broadcast journalism BUT AGAIN, I want it on my terms. I guess I want everything on my terms. This is why real estate is perfect for me. While I'd love to work for a network I don't want to be subject to what a news director wants me to produce. With technology the way it is today I can still do the reporting I want on my terms. I want to buy a good digital camera and produce/edit my own real estate blog. I want FinalCut Pro software and solid editing skills to produce quality video. This is the perfect outlet for me because not only will it increase my sales, it will also allow me to cover ANYTHING I want that will just add to the attraction of first Cache Valley and then to the properties I sell. I'm going to develop this here first since I'm here and then take it anywhere I move. Life really is exciting and amazing. We are only limited by our own desire.

The hardest thing in life is figuring out what you want, once you have that everything else is just execution of a master plan. Of course we can't control circumstances and other people BUUUT we have A LOT of influence on these things and we can continue to do our best to become what we want to become. Whatever we do must also fulfill the real master plan or the plan of salvation. As we continue to progress we only increase our own happiness and joy. We are all so blessed with so very much.

Ether 4
 4 Behold, I have written upon these plates the avery things which the brother of Jared saw; and there never were bgreater thingsmade manifest than those which were made manifest unto the brother of Jared.

11 But he that abelieveth these things which I have spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall bknowand bear record. For because of my Spirit he shall cknow that these things are dtrue; for it persuadeth men to do good.
 12 And whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do good is of me; foragood cometh of none save it be of me. I am the same that leadeth men to all good; he that will bnot believe my words will not believe me—that I am; and he that will not believe me will not believe the Father who sent me. For behold, I am the Father, I am the clight, and the dlife, and the etruth of the world.
Be Ye Converted - Bonnie L. Oscarson
For Joshua and all of us, conversion to gospel principles comes through righteously living the principles of the gospel and being true to our covenants with the Lord.
“If her love had not compelled [her] to say no, she had an even better reason—she had come all the way from Scotland and had gone through tribulations and trials for the Gospel, and she did not intend, if humanly possible, to let a child of hers lose what she had come so far to gain.”
Young friends, we live in perilous times, and the decisions which you are called upon to make on a daily, or even hourly, basis have eternal consequences. 
Being truly converted means we are acting upon what we believe and allowing it to create “a mighty change in us, or in our hearts.”3 In the booklet True to the Faith, we learn that “conversion is a process, not an event. You become converted as a result of … righteous efforts to follow the Savior.”4 It takes time, effort, and work.
It just doesn’t work that way. The Lord expects us to exercise faith. We have to consistently pay a full and honest tithe in order to gain a testimony of tithing. This same pattern applies to all the principles of the gospel, whether it is the law of chastity, the principle of modesty, the Word of Wisdom, or the law of the fast.
 I gained a deep testimony of that principle of the gospel as I exercised faith and lived it. The good feeling that came to me from living a true gospel principle was the Spirit of the Holy Ghost confirming that the principle was true. That is when true conversion begins to take place.
The prophet Moroni, in the Book of Mormon, taught, “I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
What if you never receive a witness and your faith just keeps getting tried? I have done that and I am done. To remain in that state is stupidity. I have nothing and I gained nothing in that area and an angel is going to have to appear to me and instruct me specifically about ANYTHING regarding this because although I haven't received any more direction there I want something else that lets me find joy because that DID NOT. The adversary can appear as an angel of light and even the very elect can be deceived BUT I know I wasn't, I can't lie about that. I hope and pray for something else. 



 

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