Today is October 14 2012, my wife. yes i said it my wife Megan, gave a talk in church today about journaling.... so here i am writing down what the day has and what i feel. let me get out information about the weekend and some family history updates, and then i will explain what has happened since i was baptized into the Church and changed my entire life.....
This weekend marked a huge event for work. We were passing out 30,000 door hangers to get out the vote for obama. We need him to be reelected. This is difficult for me because i live my life for the democrats. I believe in the mission of the party, i believe that this party is best inline with the gospel and in the end i love this party. Megan is a republican and i feel that it eats her up inside that i root for the dems. She says being a republican is part of her ethos and that scares me because she just tied political party on the same level of the gospel. but that with time i am sure we will find a middle ground.
This weekend also marked us getting our new calling. we will start teaching seminary coming up in a week. this is going to be reward and difficult at the same time. i love to teach. i love to mold young minds and i look forward to this opportunity to learn the gospel better and have some scripture mastery.
This weekend laurel came to town. she has been a good friend of mine for years, but we have fallen away since her move to georgia and me just being busy. i know excuses, but still she is a good friend and i am glad to have her here. I fear that some of the topics offend megan due to their nature of sex, or alcohol, or my life before the gospel, but again i think that exposure will help calm the weird feelings and bring about acceptance.
we end this weekend with a great time at church and a wonder dinner with friends, new board games and just a great outlook on life. Also with journaling. Megan gave a wonderful talk in church about importance of journaling, so i am going to make the attempt and get it done.
so here we are... where do we catch up..i left off with having a great talk with my mom.
since that time (late may 2011) i have done the following things with regards to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
I have been baptized
I have been called to serve in the Elders Quroum
I have been given the Melkeldizk Prisesthood
I have been endowed and entered the holy temple
I have been sealed to a wonderful woman for time and all eternity
I have been blessed with a wonderful life that i could not have dreamt of before
While doing all of these great things, i have found something about myself that i knew what there, but just under a bunch of layers. i have found the the best me possible. don't get me wrong i am getting better by the day, but i have started (bulid my house on a rock one could say) a foundation of greatness that can only grow from here.
I have intergrated my wonderful non-member friends into my life as being a member. i am the same person they remember just better. becuase it wasn't the booze, the sex, the women, the swearing that made me a good guy, it was just me that made me the good person.
they see that, and those nonmber friends who dn't see tht, were never my friends to begin with. but during this time i have made the hard decisions. the walk away from people who are good at heart and needed me, but they were not good for me. i had to step away from those relationships that sucked on my life, and did not help the creation of stronger me, the relationships that always hold you down. Where people don't want to help themselves, but rather want others to carry them. but i have grown.. i have been a better man..
i will leave with this. i will try and update everyday.. i have a lot to explain over the past year and i have days to do it... lets see if i can keep this going.
cheers.
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