10 Fundamentals for a Better Life

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.