10 Fundamentals for Life
1.
Read the Book of Mormon. Every day! It will help you
have a better day and it will help you stay focused.
I
know that by reading the Book of Mormon everyday it has helped me have a
greater understanding of things and people.
Challenge: Read the Book of Mormon in 30 days. (Yes
it can be done! I have seen it done)
2.
Create a Mormon.org profile.
Millions of people
look at that site all of the time. It is good to have one so that people can
see how we incorporate out faith in to our lives.
Challenge: Share it with a friend.
(It is a great way to
share your testimony with people without voicing it out loud.)
3.
Learn about your family history.
Knowing our family
history can open so many doors to us. Also it helps us become closer to our
loved ones. Family history is also a wonderful way to do temple work. When we
do our family history we know who we a doing the work for and it makes it more
personal.
Mal. 4:6, Rom. 14:9,
1 Cor. 15:29, 1 Peter 4:6, D&C 2:1-3
Challenge: Talk to your
grandparents and great-grandparents about their childhoods or stories about
their parents. (Write down the stories) Go on family search.org.
4.
Go to the Temple as much as you can!!
The temple is a
wonderful place for revelation. It has been my safe haven for the past few
years. Don’t wait until you cannot get to a temple to want to go inside. Do it
now while you have so many to choose from.
The temple is why I
am still here on my mission today. It helps with those huge life changing
decisions. Take the advantage of the temples now!
Challenge: Take a question to the temple. Take family names to the
temple and do the work for them. Always strive to be worthy to enter the Temple
at any moment.
5.
Write in your journals!
If you do not have
a journal, get one!!!!!
Your journal is a way
for your future generation to know what you went through growing up and how you
dealt with it.
It is their way to
read you testimony and to get to know you so much more! The scriptures are
journals of the prophets. If they had not written we would not have them. Who
know some of you could be Apostles or Prophets someday.
Write in your
journals your wonderful testimony.
Callenge: Write down 5
different miracles or blessings you see each day. (Yes they have to be
different each day.)
6.
Find your own Sacred Grove!
a.
Find a place that you can call your own. If you are
having a bad day or just need some time alone. Somewhere that you can just
offer up your soul to you Heavenly Father.
As a missionary we
don’t really have any time alone unless one of you is in the rest room. So find
a spot where if it is still surrounded by people you can block them all out and
chat with Heavenly Father.
Challenge: Have your own Joseph Smith moment. (In a vocal
prayer come to him with a question about the church in your Sacred Grove)
7.
Moroni 10:8-18, D&C 46:8-33
Find and develop
those gifts and talents that God has given you. Ask for and strive to find
more. Each and every one has them! (D&C 6:7)
Challenge: Use 1 of those
talents or gifts every day for a month! (Different 1 for each day of a
week, they you can use them again.)
8.
PMG Chapter 6 Christ like Attributes
Tread about the
Christ like attributes and apply them into your life. Strive to become more
like him!
When we Strive to
achieve the attributes of Christ we become more like him and closer to our
Heavenly Father.
We also learn more
about ourselves!
Challenge: PMG pg.126
Do the assessment and work on them every day! (PMG = Preach My Gospel)
9.
Share your testimony every day!
As we share our
testimonies it gives the Holy Ghost a chance to testify of the truth. It also
helps out testimonies grow stronger and stronger.
Bearing out
testimonies plants a seed in the hearts of those that are listening! When we
bear out testimony it gives them a chance to use their agency about whether to
accept or reject the truth.
Challenge: Write your
testimony in a Book of Mormon and prayerfully give it to someone, or give it to
the missionaries to give to someone!
(Putting your
testimony in a Book of Mormon personalizes it.)
10. 2 Nephi 33:6
Develop a personal
relationship with your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!
As you do all of
these things # 10 will come!
When you have a
personal relationship with your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ you
will be able to feel them near you and you will know exactly who you are and
what your purpose is!
Challenge: Write a letter telling me how this has helped you or how
it has changed those around you. Share what miracles or blessings you have
seen. And continue on with them. Don’t stop or give up. I know that you can do
them.
Most of all continue
to do every thing you can to always have the Holy Ghost with you. I can assure
you that it is the worst thing to be without the Holy Ghost in your life
especially after you have already had him there. Continue to talk to your
Heavenly Father! He wants to hear from you! He loves and care for you so much!
I love all of you so
much. Continue to be the wonderful sons and daughters of God that you are and
stay on the right path. It will take you so much farther than the other one!
Challenge: Share with you
families the miracles and blessings you have seen!
I know that if you do
these things that the Lord will be with you and you will be able to feel hem
close around you!
I know that this
gospel is true. I know that Joseph Smith was the Prophet of God and that Thomas
S. Monson is the Prophet today! I know that the Book of Mormon is the true word
of God translated by Joseph Smith. I know that each one of you are choice sons and
daughters of God and that he has a great work ahead for each of you! I know
that as long as we do what is right we will be blessed. I say these things in
the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
