Saturday, July 23, 2011

Just doing some snowboarding

I love to go snowboarding. Some of the favorite ski resorts i've been to are The Canyons resort in Park City, Utah. Snowbird and Brighton near Salt Lake City, Utah.  Last of all, Sundance resort by Provo (pretty close to my house).  Way fun ski resorts. Thing about them is they're all unique and different from each other. Some bigger, some smaller. Others more difficult. But they usually have easy runs and hard runs. All graded on different scales. Green being easiest, blue being the next, black diamond being difficult, and double black diamond most difficult. As beginners, you would usually stay in the green or blue. Thats where you feel comfortable and gain experience. After you have mastered the basics, then you can go onto the harder things like the black diamonds.
Snowboarding can relate to the gospel. The experience we gain while snowboarding is like building our testimony. We don't start out on the black diamonds. We build on the basics and the simple things. Like the green and blue runs. After we have mastered the basics. Faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. Then we can go onto bigger things. It's always good to refresh yourself on the simple things though. In the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hope of the Resurrection

In the book of Job poses a question "If a man die shall he live again?" Most certainly. Why is the resurrection so essential to know about in this life?
The other day I went to the doctor and i've had these dry skin patches on my body. Something called psoriasis. He told me that i've had it for my whole life and I will continue to have it for the rest of my life. I was pretty bummed but it's not a big deal. Comparitive to cancer or diabetes it looks like nothing. But as I thought about it when we we're done planning, an answer came into my mind. The resurrection of course. A thing so vital about the gospel that I didn't even think of. All of our pains and our sicknesses on earth will be done away with in the resurrection when we obtain our perfect bodies.
 Alma 40:23 The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame.
I know this thing I have will be gone. I will have a perfect body in the resurrection. This is possible because our Savior was resurrected.
 Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: