Turn to the Sun

"Turn to the sun and let the shadows fall behind you" -Maori proverb.

       People make many mistakes in life and I have had my fair share of them. It was hard to try and fix those things that I did wrong. I struggled and struggled to make my life better but the mistakes just kept coming. What was I doing wrong? Why couldn't I make myself a better person? The answer came as I was reading the Book of Mormon. The story of Alma the younger hit me as hard as a rock. I needed to repent. I thought that just changing those things that I did was considered repentance. But as I studied and learned from others, repentance is more than that.

      The Hebrew word for repentance is "shub", which literally means to turn from and to turn to. In order for me to receive that forgiveness and help that I was in need of, I needed to do just what the word shub means. Turn from my old ways of life and turn to the Son of God, even Jesus Christ. He is the only way. Only through him can we receive peace and forgiveness that we want in our lives. As i turned to Christ I cast my burdens on him and the shadows that so often haunted me have been cast behind me as I have turned to the Son.

Practice Feasting

Don't you just wish you could pick up an instrument and be able to start playing it amazingly? I sure do. It would have saved me four years of painstaking practice, practice and some more practice. But of course it isn't that easy. Learning guitar wasn't something that was at the top of my list of things to do. But with diligence and strong perseverance and because of the thought that my grade in my guitar class would go down, I knew I had to practice. In the end it helped me alot to have that motivation because now playing the guitar is my favorite thing to do. Its the same way with the scriptures. Reading the scriptures wasn't something I desired to do in my free time. With the help of my family and those around me I grew to love the scriptures and the messages it has for me. I began to "feast upon the words of Christ" as Nephi puts it in 2 Nephi 32:3. I found those things in the Bible and Book of Mormon that helped me through my day and helped me become a better person on the inside and out. I know that with diligent study and "feasting" we can have a better life and when those hard time comes we will be ready for them.