You Better Learn Plan A

Sorry I accidentally deleted yesterday's post. 

 

 

Rather than try to shove everything about this Plan A that God has, I'll share this video with you. Sure it's a little bit outdated but the concept is still true. Read your script (scriptures) so you won't be lost any longer in Act II and you'll be fully prepared for Act III

 

 

Thanks for following along with August's church marquee line-up!

Step It Up in September!

It's time for a new challenge kids! (Why does my internet typing voice always want to address what I'm saying to little people?)  So anyway, welcome to September. The month of freshly sharpened pencils, squeaky white rubber soles on tennis shoes, and backpacks that don't smell like last's months lunch leftovers yet. Unless you live in Kentucky and school started a month ago. But in growing up in California this was always back to school time. It's really odd to me to not be enrolled in classes this fall and I've got to keep my brain actively learning so it doesn't get all rusty like this sweater that I'm wearing.

 

I'm hoping that anyone who is reading this also is on team "don't-let-your-brain-turn-into-jello" when it comes to this time of the year. Since I'm so nice and helpful (and humble) I'd like to invite you to join me in a 30 day challenge to read the Book of Mormon. Now it isn't one of those things where the point is to read the whole book. In fact I hope you DON'T read the whole thing.

Read from the Book of Mormon for at least 15 minutes every day.
Say a simple prayer before and after you read.
For 30 days.
That's it!

Ooh, plus, invite ONE friend to join in on the challenge with you.

The purpose of this challenge is to get in a healthy habit of reading the scriptures every day. Specifically the Book of Mormon because I know the power that comes from that little blue book. Another LeVar Burton moment where I say "you don't have to take my word for it". Try it out! Leave me a comment if you're participating please :)

If you want to get a bonus blessing you can begin the challenge by reading President Henry B. Eyring's testimony of the Libro de Mormon right here. And this quote from that link:

"Joseph Smith said of that precious book, 'I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.'"

That's a pretty bold and straightforward promise! And if you're stubbon like some people I know and need just one extra sign or testimony of the truth, you can read this article from the Prophet Thomas S. Monson about the promises of the Book of Mormon.

One more thing I'd like to add on. This challenge is NOT just for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Book of Mormon is for everyone! If you don't have a copy of this book go to this website and you can get one for free. Some nice missionaries like myself will bring you a copy of your own.

Download your reading calender HERE for free! (save file and print!)

Be At Peace

I'll be the first to admit that I'm really good at giving advice, but not so good at taking it myself.

The other day I found myself frustrated over small things. Ok, so big things. Like love handle big things. I was so frustrated and depressed and upset because I couldn't see past the extra weight that my body keeps sneaking on to me. I couldn't see through to the strength that my spirit has been getting. So when I saw this sign it gave me a little smack in the face and said "Ok Sister McCall. Enough whining.  Stop troubling your heart over something that is insignificant in this moment. Trust God and know that there will be plenty of gym time. Right now you have Him time."

 

John 14:1 

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

 

How do you put your trust in God? How has he helped you overcome obstacles?

Try A Better Search Engine

But I can give you two books that do and teach you how to pray. You'll never go without an answer again.

Be Thou Clean

I See Pride, I See Power!

This is a very simple truth. Who has control over your life? You do. Who has control over your emotions? You do. To say "Oh she just really made me angry" is to give away the power you have to control yourself. And it's a flat out lie. You chose to be angry. The end.

"Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life."

2 Nephi 10:23

Good Propaganda

Don't you forget who your Savior is! Not even when you're picking up grain to feed yo animals!

Since my brain is actually a radio (as some of you may know) the hymn The Lord is My Light comes to mind when I see this sign.

Like A Boss

I really have no clue where this church gets their ideas.

They're just plain wild! (That's Clarksville for ya I guess)

Crazy Is Ok

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that was my response to this one.

love it.

best sign ever award!

Exodus 2:2-4

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

Prayer + Action

This is a pretty clever little acronym!

And it pretty much explains itself.

James 2: 20-22

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?  Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?