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Hey Yall, Today is the day to talk about the Atonement, I've decided. In our Elder's Quorom in our ward, we talked about the Atonement not only in our own lives, but in the lives of those around us. A main topic of Discussion was how ''Unfair'' somethings seem, such as the shooting in Connecticut, getting a ticket on a scooter or getting ripped off in your workplace. We discussed that the Atonement was carried out in order to cover all of these things that seem ''unfair.'' I've often thought about the atonement and the significance of it. Apostles and Prophets have said that the Atonement of Jesus Christ (including his suffering in Gethsemane, death on the Cross and resurrection) is the most complex and least understood Doctrine of the Gospel. It sounds about right, considering Christ experienced every little pain, sorrow and suffering we've ever felt. You, me and everyone who has ever lived on earth. He felt everything. As said in ...

Hey Yall, This is what we do with a little ingenuity, talent and love. :)

Hey Yall, I have nothing really to report other than I have a great life. Great family, Great job, Great Girlfriends, Great friends and great intelligence. :) I would love to share this song I recently found and I really like it.

Hey Y'all, Obviously that song title 'I stand all amazed' is not a Christmas standard by any means, however I love it and have seen a very good portion of how important the Atonement is in each one of our lives. As it was fast and testimony meeting today, I was going share my testimony and talk about some of this, but in a single's ward that's kind of hard to do. People create a forever-long line before the first person is even done speaking. So, here's my thoughts from today: First off, my Dad is pretty awesome. Just throwing that out there. :) I share this with you mostly as a reminder to myself of the most important thing. As a recently returned missionary, young adult, man, brother, son, etc, I can get pretty caught up in a million different reasons to live the Gospel and go to Church. Spending time with friends, singing in the choir, trying to make a good impression or just not wanting to break a pretty good record. There is the most important reason ...

Hey Y'all, Well, we had a great week down in Las Vegas(no, I did NOT get married) and the family has another memory to add to our ever-growing treasure chest of great times, this time with more little ones and another in-law. Fun times, right? Obviously we went to see the Bellagio Fountains, right before hitting up Cesar's Palace. That, my friends, is a city inside a hotel. However, it is a marketplace city, which I don't like very much. Oh well, the view was beautiful with a sky-lit ceiling that actually had a similarity to the sky. Now, I have to ask a question. How many of you have ever had a day/week/month/year when every song you listen to seems applicable to your life? What I mean is this: this week as each and every song I've listened to(which is well over a 1000 songs) has the tendency to put me in the singer's shoes and I feel as though I'm singing about my life in that moment. Every song from Taylor Swift's last pop hit to the sweetest hymn...

Hey yall, Dale is really forgetful if you haven't noticed already. You remember how he wrote about 3 weeks ago about having an eternal perspective. Yeah, for about 2 and half of the last 3 weeks he hasn't had that perspective. He's such a hypocrite, right? So, in an attempt to help him remember and to write down what he's learned, we are going to review the idea. With some repairs to the phrasing and mentality. So, having an eternal perspective is not just having the view that we have all kinds of time in the world because we're going to have forever to perfect ourselves like our Heavenly Father. Looking on the past couple of weeks, there has not been much progression. Why? Because we were thinking like that. However, it really should be more like this: this of what you've done in the past, fix it. When you mess up, think of how much time you took to fix it and try to improve on the time it took or the quality of job you did in fixing it. For example, goin...

Hey Yall, Our Heavenly Father is pretty smart. In case you didn't already know. He's created all kinds of worlds and knows all the processes of nature inside and out. Today we'll try to understand this new epiphany I had while watching a man shovel snow. While watching this man shovel snow, I thought, ''Huh, God never seems to care where the snow is. He doesn't move the snow around with shovels and snowplows. He knows exactly where it falls, where it stays and what happens to it later on.'' This made me think of how man tries to move everything to have things his way. We store things, we throw things away, we shovel snow out of the way; but we never seem to care where it ends and where it starts. I thought about how the snow will eventually go away because that's how God planned it. It may be annoying at times, but it can also be fun while it's around. We can learn to enjoy it or move it out of the way. Everything has a place for now, every...