Vision: Gratitude

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Gratitude

During general conference President Monson (Our living prophet, servant of the Lord, same divine calling as Abraham, Moses, Isaiah etc.) Spoke about gratitude. He told the story of the Savior and the 7 loaves of bread and the huge multitude that followed him. Clearly there was not enough food for this huge multitude that followed him but he gave thanks anyway and because he gave thanks a MiRaClE happened. I never really thought about that story in that way. It was very enlightening for me to hear that. There is something else that President Monson said that struck me that I want to make EVERY effort to cultivate, he said "To live with gratitude is to touch heaven". I want to touch heaven on earth!

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Juanita's Conversion Story

I feel that Heavenly Father has blessed me with the desire to play softball. The fact that the Lord was guiding me to play softball became more evident to me when I was offered a scholarship to play ball at BYU-Hawaii. The thought of attending BYU-Hawaii just seemed right and good at the time so I attended college there. My first year in college I was so excited to learn, play, and party. I discovered real soon that the students who attended the university had fun without drinking. I also discovered that the people were faithful and they had a strong sense of purpose and Identity. This compelled me to go on a spiritual search. I decided to take the lessons from the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I took the lessons I was taught things that I heard before and things that were new to me. Such as the Book of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith. These were things that were a challenge for me to believe. So I took these challenges up to the Lord and I asked him if the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I'm so delighted to share with you that I do know that the Book of Mormon is true and that the Prophet Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I know that it's true because of the power of the Holy Spirit, because of these truths and much more I decided to be baptized and serve the Lord. Getting baptized was the best decision I ever made. It's because of this choice that I enjoy the blessing of life today. The church is true and I find myself indebt to the Lord forever.