With so much to say, so much to explain and most importantly so much to share. I'd figure I would do this now. So I'm currently taking a writing class at SLCC. So being able to use this blog to share can and will help me out on the skills I am learning in my class and I will be able to use them and put them into practice here. So where do I start? So I think the last time I left off I talked about my post mission life transition. So I've been home for over a year now. So a lot of things have changed. Over the summer I experience a lot of different challenges and opportunities. In February I was called to serve and work in the Temple and a Baptistery and Temple Veil Worker. It has been wonderful it's been a year almost since I was called and I can't begin to say how blessed and grateful I am for it. Finishing some of my school was great too but even more the opportunities that came to me over the summer were wonderful and amazing. I was called to be a ward missionary and I can say that was one of the best feelings of my life to be able to receive this calling. Later my good friend who was the ward mission leader moved out of the ward so a new leader was called. With that change occurring there way a need of an assistant so I was called to fill that responsibility. With that it really help me change my perspective on my goals and duties. Mid May I had a wonderful thing happen to me I met my best friend David.
Let me tell you about David you are probably wondering who the cute girl is too standing right in front of me in the other photo. Well don't worry she has made her mark in my life too. David was a young adult who was born in California raised most of his life in Michigan. He graduated and studied at Michigan State. Upon moving out here to Utah he was having some difficulties and challenges in his life so he decided to move out here to Utah with his aunt and uncle. Its here where David would be first introduced to the LDS Church and the missionaries. His uncle was being taught by the missionaries one day and David was asked to join. So he did and was part of the discussion. He later was than taught by the YSA (Young Single Adult) Missionaries. That is when I met him. I was asked to accompany the missionaries to a lesson with David. Me at the time depressed and lonely because of my job situation and dating experiences that I had previously had I was a little hesitant at first but than I compelled myself and said no "this is an opportunity to serve and share the gospel, this is my duty and calling". So I joined and little to my knowledge spending time with David going to church with him taking him place social events, activities, and institute this would eventually open a lot of doors for me especially the door that I'm so grateful for now the door of a new and wonderful friend who I truly adore and love. Yes you are probably thinking that girl right well I ain't spilling the beans yet it's still David's time to shine. Anyway David was baptize shortly after the missionaries met with him. A couple days before he was baptized he talked with our Bishop of the Singles ward and he was asked who he would like to be baptized by and he said that he would like me to do it. My heart burst with join I could not believe that he had asked me to do it I ponder why, why wouldn't he of asked the missionaries to do it. Pondering this I could suddenly have come to my mind a teaching moment from our Heavenly Father through the spirit. On my mission I tired so hard to baptize people forgetting the real and important key element in conversion. A friend a true friend someone who will never abandon you someone who will stand by your side when the going gets tough, someone who will rescue you from harms danger, someone who will listen to your problems and try and find solutions to it, someone who will build you up and not let the world bring you down or life. These types of friends I wish I could of had when I was a young teen, maybe the remedy of what would have kept me completely progressive towards living a more Christ centered life. Maybe I would have avoided and not made foolish decisions in my youth. Regardless of my outcome and experience I knew David was now going to be taken care of. He would now join a big huge family especially in the singles ward. With baptism he would now be part of God's Kingdom. When David step in water as I helped him in memories flashed back only months away of when I as a missionary preform my final baptism and also all of those precious individuals and families my companions and I baptized. As I raised my arm to square I thought back on when my Dad baptized me in that very moment I felt like a Father like image for David, A father like image in the gospel for him. After David was baptized her was confirmed by the missionaries. This wouldn't be the last time I got to be apart of David's progress in the church. After he was a member for a couple months we continued to do the same work hard in our own personal lives. David and I got to go to the Temple on Saturday morning. It was glorious we went to the Draper Temple we were able to do work
for the dead by doing baptisms. It was great David was able to learn more about the Temple as well as be able to understand the importance and why we go to the Temple. Life was great life was wonderful I had so many blessings in my life. Also a couple weeks prior to that I was able to give David the priesthood. I laid my hands upon his head and gave him the Aaronic priesthood. It was a great day as well. Sometimes you think life is going well when you trust in yourself and not the Lord. You let your guard down and you start making mistakes. You justify and say that well I'm not doing everything right but at least I'm trying my best. Sometimes it's not enough to only do our best we need be very careful and not be lazy in keeping the commandments that's what I was doing and than I met her.
