Happy 12th Birthday Sam

This post is short and sweet. I can not believe it was January two days ago and already it is second of February today. Where did yesterday go? Where did today go? My goodness before I know it, I will be twenty one years.

This post is not about me turning twenty one years. This post is a birthday wish to my brother Sam and he was turning twelve years old. My goodness, I still remember holding Sam when he was a baby and man time flies so quickly! I can not believe he has turn twelve years old today.

Late last night, I arrived at my family's house to sleep over so I can surprise Sam for his Birthday and I definitely achieved that. It was so funny how I surprised him. I can not sleep too well last night, and so when I was awake, my brother woke up. 

He was walking his way to the kitchen and I said "Booo." He was looking around to find out where the noise came from. When he saw me, he asked me "When did you get here?" I replied, "Almost a few hours ago/midnight last night." 

He can not believe that I was there and we talked for a short time. He eventually went back to sleep. He woke up again and this time it was around 4AM. Approximately two hours later than the previous wake up and again we talked for a short time.

I hope he had a awesome day overall. I still remember when I turned twelve years old and my goodness, it does not seem too long ago.

"Happy Birthday Sam, I hope you had a awesome day."

Stay Tuned until next time.

Hello February

First and foremost, "Hello ... February. Yay, it is finally February!"
Are you ready to achieve so many great things throughout this month?

I know that I am ready to achieve so many great things throughout this month and I already feel that this month is going to be a rollercoaster that constantly goes ups and downs! This month, I will be turning twenty one years old.

This month, my girl best friend Sister Dixon finishes her mission. This month reaches thirteen years ago since I got baptised and confirmed as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Brief quick memories that I would like to share with you and of course all of these memories did not happened all in February.

I attended Preschool when I was five years old and it was at Boronia Heights State School. My youngest sister Rebekah came into my life when I was six years old.

I got baptised and got confirmed as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when I was eight years old and it was on Valentine's Day. Another eventful thing that happened when I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with bilateral hip dsyplasia/both hips out of place and it is a most common condition in dogs than it is in humans.

My brother Samuel came into my life when I was nine years old. I wore a long skirt and had a rope around my waist/hip so it could fit me when I was ten years old.

My family moved into Lockyer Valley area when I was eleven years old. I went on my first flight and the flight was to Canberra for a school camp when I was twelve years old.

I became a high school student when I was thirteen years old and I attended Laidley State High School. I started doing seminary when I was fourteen years old.

I started taking many photos when I was fifteen years old. I knew what I would like to do for my career and my back up career when I was sixteen years old. I went on my first single date, I graduated Seminary, I graduated High School and I obtained my learners when I was seventeen years old.

I obtained my red provisional licence and I went on my first group date when I was eighteen years old. I flew to Perth, Western Australia for six weeks without my family, I flew to Brisbane Queensland Australia twice, I had my first car accident and my first car got written off when I was nineteen years old.

I obtained my green provisional licence, I purchased a second car and I got a job at Dominos Pizza Store when I was twenty years old.

February, please be a eventful and be a amazing month for me.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Quick Overview of My January 2017

This month went too fast. This month was a month that was full of laughters, smiles, a few times to be sad, and many great lessons that has been taught and I can apply to my everyday life.
My goodness, where did this month go? How was this month for you overall?

Did you achieved many good things throughout this month? What was your top three highlights of this month?
What was your top three greatest achievements that you have accomplished throughout this month?

This post is based on a quick overview of this month for this year and overall for this month of this year was very good and crazy. I achieved so many good things and made so many memories. I had four photography booking sessions.

One of my greatest achievements that I have accomplished throughout this month was attending a Baptistry session at Brisbane Temple each week and by going to the Temple every week without a fail has strengthen my testimony about Temple blessings so much.

Another greatest achievements that I have accomplished was moving out of my family's house, and successfully moved into a new house in a new area. I used to live in Ipswich for six months and I thought it was time for me to move on. It was a stressful and crazy experience when I was packing all of my stuff and ready to move on.

Another greatest achievements that I have accomplished was constantly learning to make sacrifices to help constantly to a friend who was always in need such as transport. It was always stressful but I was able to overcome it.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Kind

This post is short and sweet. I encourage you to think about and answer the following questions,
"What does the word kind means to you?" "Do you like striving your best to be kind to everyone?"
"Do you speak kind words to everyone who you meet for the first time?"

This post is based on a song called "Kind" by Jenny Philips. The vocals is by Brooke Stone. The song is in EMBARK In the Service of God ablum; Songs for Young Women. I would like to share with you my favourite parts while I was listening to the song.

"So much hurt, so many heartless words in this world.
Too much pain, too many souls who ache needlessly.

We need more tenderness. Oh, how this world needs. More thoughtfulness,
more words filled with gentleness. Let the Savior's love inside your heart.

It's part of who you are. You were designed to be kind.

Chorus:

Kind when wronged. Kind to enemies.
Kind to conflict. Kind when you are weak."

If you can not see the Image above, it says "BE KIND. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

We all need to be kind to our loved ones who we do not get along with.
We all need to be kind to our enemies and need to be kind to our friends.

Start being kind today! I encourage you to listen to the whole song in your own time if you can find the whole song.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Detours and More Detours

First and foremost, I encourage you to think about and answer the following questions.
"What do you think this post is going to be about?" "What does detours and more detours means to you?"
"What does Missionary Work means to you?" "How do you apply Missionary Work in your daily life?"

This post is based on a few quick missionary experiences that I had throughout this afternoon and this evening and I would like to share with you those experiences. I hope you will like this post.

First missionary experience was helping the Sister Missionaries from Eight Mile Plains Ward with transport. It was so much fun. They normally take public transport, sometimes the church members in their ward help them and sometimes they ride their bikes to get to places.

While I was with the Sister Missionaries, we attended two appointments and one dinner appointment. One appointment with a follow up of two recent converts based on visiting the Brisbane Temple, any questions and concerns that they had about the Temple and their cultural background is Chinese.

Followed by, attending another appointment of an investigator who lives out of the Sister Missionaries's area and answered questions about his reading of The Book of Mormon.

Followed by, attending a dinner appointment at a church member's family's home in Eight Mile Plains and we discuss to church member's family about The Plan of Salvation for the spiritual thought.

On my way home, I made two detours and I thought I knew where I was going and turns out that I did not know where I was going.

I was driving one direction and knowing that they was not many people driving at night in the area where I turned around. Shortly after I turned around and drove the right way home, I saw bunch of people who was all together and someone's car has broke down.

I did not know what to do. I instantly felt courage to pull over and stop driving. I started walking and asked the owner of the car to see if he was okay. His name is Peter and he was explaining to me what have happened and the tow truck was on its way. I told him that I would be happy to wait with him and the other bunch of people.

The bunch of people are from the Cook Islands and even one of them asked me if I was a Mormon. I was so surprised. I sang a song to them and that song called "I Will by Hilary Weeks." I do recommend you to listen to that song if you have not listened to that song before.

After that, I eventually left after everyone else left and the tow truck left too. I started another direction way home. It seem like everywhere I turned that is not in the direction home, I pulled over and stop driving.

I saw another person has broken down. I asked that person to see if he was okay. His name is Sharon and he was okay. He explained to me what has happened. He was driving with his partner and on their way to work.

I tried to explain to them the importance of Sabbath Day and how to keep the Sabbath Day Holy but I kept it inside of me not to say it because I assumed that their English language skills to speak it would not be very good.

I learned a few important lessons from each of these experiences and I would like to share with you one of those important lessons. "Sometimes in life, it will give you detours to help people along the way before you reach your final destination."

Stay Tuned until next time.

Accepting the Lord's Will and Timing

This post is based on an article that I love from this month's issue of Liahona, called "Accepting the Lord's Will and Timing" by Elder David A. Bednar. I would like to share with you some favourite parts that I loved while I was reading the article.

"Scriptures concerning the Savior’s suffering as He offered the infinite and eternal atoning sacrifice became even more poignant and meaningful to me. I believe most of us likely would expect a man with the spiritual capacity, experience, and stature of Elder Maxwell to face serious illness and death with an understanding of God’s plan of happiness, with assurance and grace, and with dignity.

“Not My Will, but Thine, Be Done”
We recognized a principle that applies to every devoted disciple: strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted. Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains if moving mountains accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, and lame if such healing accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even if we have strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can be received only through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

The Meaning of All Things

You are facing, have faced, or will yet face equivalent challenges in your lives with the same courage and spiritual perspective ..

I do not know why some people learn the lessons of eternity through trial and suffering while others learn similar lessons through rescue and healing. I do not know all of the reasons, all of the purposes, and I do not know everything about the Lord’s timing. With Nephi, you and I can say that we “do not know the meaning of all things”  (1 Nephi 11:17).

But some things I absolutely do know. I know we are spirit sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. I know the Eternal Father is the author of the plan of happiness. I know Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I know Jesus enabled the Father’s plan through His infinite and eternal Atonement. I know the Lord, who was “bruised, broken, [and] torn for us,”2 can succor and strengthen “his people according to their infirmities” (Alma 7:12). And I know one of the greatest blessings of mortality is to not shrink and to allow our individual will to be “swallowed up in the will of the Father” (Mosiah 15:7).

Though I do not know everything about how and when and where and why these blessings occur, I do witness they are real. And I know that as you press forward in your lives with steadfast faith in Christ, you will have the capacity to not shrink."

I encourage you to read the whole article in your own time. Here's the link below.
www.lds.org/liahona/2016/08/accepting-the-lords-will-and-timing

If you can't see the Image what I have shared with this post, the Image says "Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted."

Stay Tuned until next time.

Struggle Today, Strength Tomorrow

This post is short and sweet. I would like to share with you some questions based on overcome. 

I encourage you to answer the following questions in your own time.

What did you do to overcome your past struggles? What did you do to overcome your new struggles?
What did you do to overcome your past challenges? What did you do to overcome your new challenges?

What did you do to overcome your past weaknesses and your new weaknesses?
What did you do to overcome your past difficulties and your new difficulties?

What did you do to overcome the feeling of being worthless in the past?
What did you do to overcome the feeling of being unloved in the past?

What did you do to overcome the feeling of being heartbroken in the past?
What did you do to overcome the feeling of being alone in the past?

What did you do to overcome after losing a long term friendship with someone?
What did you do to overcome after losing a short term friendship with someone?

What did you do to overcome your past hardships and your new hardships?
What did you do to overcome after losing a loved one?

Each individual has their own ways to overcome their past challenges and new challenges.
Each individual has their own ways to overcome their past struggles and new struggles.

Each individual has their own ways to overcome their past weaknesses and new weaknesses.
Each individual has their own ways to overcome their past trials and new trials.

Each individual has their own ways to overcome their past difficulties and new difficulties.
Each individual has their own ways to overcome feeling of being worthless.

Each individual has their own ways to overcome feeling of being unloved.
Each individual has their own ways to overcome feeling of being heartbroken.
Each individual has their own ways to overcome feeling of being alone.

If you can't see the Image of this post, it says "the struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."

Stay Tuned until next time.