Sick in bed

Our daughter Christine chosen to be Mary for the pagent
 

This week I spent 2 days in bed with vertigo.  Vertigo is when you are off balance and everything spins, which makes walking almost impossible.  I had to stay in bed to settle down the nausea which accompanies it.  I couldn't eat or drink or I would throw up.  Being sick is sick!  I don't ever want to do that again. I know what brought it on. I was a passenger on the back of a 4-wheeler for  hours and was bounced around like a rag doll.  Vertigo always follows some kind of trauma.  Anyway, I am better now and enjoyed a hike yesterday and church today.

I was very touched by our Sacrament speaker who reminded us that Christ volunteered for the role of being our Savior.  Why would anyone volunteer for that job?  I could hardly handle my two days of  vertigo, I sure wouldn't be volunteering for everyone else's diseases, illnesses and sins.  I guess He really loves us alot more than we can comprehend. All he ask in return is that we do ALL we can do and He will cover the rest.  We need to use the atonement every day when we fall short of all the things we just can't seem to do,  yet want to do.  I always seem to be planning way to much goodness.  Yes, I have the desire to do alot of things for alot of people each and every day, but never seem to get it all done. 

Our speaker told us that the outcome of our future has already been decided.  Because of Christ we are WINNERS!  Just one thing we need to do! Our part! Oh yes, repent, repent and repent, try to keep the commandments and obey the promptings of the Holy Ghost and then, it is a done deal! 

We are here on earth to figure out if we want to follow Christ plan or Satan’s.  Christ has done the hard part for us.  We need to give each day our best.  As members and missionaries of His church we need to spread the message of his endless love to the world, that they can have JOY!  Few people in the world realized they are supposed to have JOY!  They live in misery, regret, remorse and they don’t even know why.  Christ promises us ultimate JOY!  True joy can only come from the Savior.

If we could only see for a moment who we REALLY ARE!  Who we are to become, we would understand why the Savior did for us what He did, we are each individually magnificent humans in the making.

Even in the worst of pain, or terrible disease we cannot comprehend the suffering He went through for us.  Yet, we have been told that, no disease no pain will accompany us in the next life.

LIFE is not easy said Elder Holland, it’s hard because Salvation is not easily obtained.

He quoted a statement about the value of bearing your testimony many times a day, because anyone who hears it, knows they have heard something familiar, for just a moment the veil is thin and they are remembering something they knew from before.  Testimonies are powerful.   Stand tall when you share your testimony, for you stand with Christ, and people will feel His goodness and the truth of what you say.

This week’s mission:  Be filled with joy, share my testimony daily,  ask for His  atonement to work for me as I turn my shortcomings over to Him.