What started out as just an assignement...

My very first blog post back in October talked about how I really had no desire whatsoever to blog. I said how I  had never been interested in the whole blogging culture. All my roommates are crazy about bloggers. They all follow the young Mormon mom bloggers and freak out at how adorable they are. I just chill in the corner, outside of their little blogging world. So the fact that I ended up being the one required to create a blog was thee most frustratingly ironic things everrrrrrr.
But, in that same blog, I also mentioned how my professor had us read  Elder Bednar's talk To Sweep the Earth as With a Flood.

 After reading and watching his address on using our technological advances to spread the Gospel of Christ, I felt kind of selfish for thinking the way I had. I have been reserved for this time by God. This time filled with a multiplicity of blessings and numerous inventions that have completely changed the way humans live. I couldn't shake the feeling of guilt and decided I needed an attitude change. With that I decided to go into the blogging experience with an open mind and open heart.

I kind of hate to admit this, but I actually came to really enjoy blogging. It's kind of like a journal... except the whole world has access to it. It's a place where I can share significant events and things I've learned, especially from the scriptures and forms of modern scripture from our Church's leadership. I like the fact that I can be a hundred percent myself on this blog. At this point with my blog, I don't have a specific audience. If someone comes across one of my entries and likes it, then cool. If someone comes across it and hates it, then cool. I'm not striving to impress anyone or become a well-known Mormon mom blogger. I'm just letting the words flow from my mind and into my fingertips, sharing what I have come to know and sharing what I feel.This may have started out as an assignment, but it ended as a desire to share. Knowing that I can possibly make a difference in someone's life by spreading the word of God on this blog excites me.

Even though this is the last required blog post for my class, I'm thinking it won't be the last one of my life. I still am not crazy involved or interested with the blogging world, but I am extremely grateful for being a part of this world during this specific time and for having the knowledge that I have. I know that Christ is my Savior. And I know that He lives. He and our Father in Heaven love us more than our mere mortal bodies could ever comprehend. God's love is eternal and infinite and indescribable and perfect and completely necessary to have true happiness. He is with us always. During the best of times and during the worst of time. HE IS WITH US. He has promised us that. And that will NEVER change. This perfect being who understands every single thing that every single individual has ever or will ever go through, has told us to fear not and to come unto him so he can make our burdens light. Why would we not want Him in our lives?


To know that there are people without this knowledge makes me so sad. I really don't know how else to describe it. I just can't imagine living without my testimony of Christ and Heavenly Father. And that is the biggest reason I think I'll keep this blog. I know my efforts won't be in vain, even if no one is impacted by it or even if no one reads it. To know that I am declaring my testimony in the global online world is a big step for me. I can always improve and I will continuously be looking for what I can do better, but no matter what I will ALWAYS stand as a witness of God.

With that I should express my thanks to my professor for helping me to realize all this. It was Elder Bednar who made me feel, which made me act. But I most definitely would not have began a blog if I would have come across his talk by myself.

Take what life gives you and roll with the punches, but be sure to go to the Man, our God who knows the pain and anguish and sorrow and guilt of EVERY punch. Come unto Christ. And bring all those who you can with you.

Love Life. It's good.