The Miracle of Atonement

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this post should take approximately four to six minutes to read from start to finish.

This post is focus on April 2014 General Conference talk, and it is called "Your Four Minutes" by Bishop Gary E. Stevenson. I would love to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk. 

Bishop Stevenson mentioned, "You are an eternal being. Before you were born, you existed as a spirit. In the presence of a loving Heavenly Father, you trained and prepared to come to earth for a brief moment and, well, perform. This life is your four minutes. While you are here, your actions will determine whether you win the prize of eternal life.

The prophet Amulek described, “This life is the time to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day to perform [your] labors.” In a sense, your four minutes have already begun. The clock is ticking. The words of the Apostle Paul seem so fitting: to run the race, that you may obtain the prize.

My young friends, wherever you are in your “four-minute performance,” I urge you to ponder, “What do I need to do next to ensure my medal?” Perhaps during this conference, the Spirit has whispered to you what that may be: to prepare more thoughtfully for an ordinance in your future or to receive an ordinance that you should have received a long time ago.

Whatever it may be, do it now. Don’t wait. Your four minutes will pass quickly, and you’ll have eternity to think about what you did in this life.

Self-discipline is needed. Daily prayer, scripture study, and church attendance must be the foundation of your training. A consistent pattern of obeying the commandments, keeping the covenants you have made, and following the Lord’s standard found in For the Strength of Youth is required.

"The Miracle of the ATONEMENT can make up for imperfections
in our performance." - Gary E. Stevenson.

It is not yet too late to repent. But it soon may be, because no one really knows when your four minutes will be over. Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “I already blew it. My four minutes are already a disaster. I may as well give up.” If so, stop thinking that, and never think it again. The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance. As Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has taught:

“To those of you who may still be hanging back, I testify of the renewing power of God’s love and the miracle of His grace. “It is never too late so long as the Master says there is time. Don’t delay.”

Remember, you are not alone. The Savior has promised that He will not leave you comfortless. You also have family, friends, and leaders who are cheering you on.

With that in mind, is there someone who needs your encouragement? a family member? a friend? a classmate or fellow quorum member? How can you help them with their four minutes?

Dear friends, you are in the midst of an exhilarating journey. In some ways, you are racing down the half-pipe or sled track, and it can be challenging to perform each element or navigate each turn along the way. But remember, you’ve prepared for this for millennial. This is your moment to perform. This is your four minutes! The time is now!

I express my utmost confidence in your abilities. You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?"

I encourage you to read the whole talk in your own time. Here's the link to the talk.

www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/your-four-minutes

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While Employed in Domino's Industry in Australia; Quick Miracles Happened

Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

During multiple occasions whilst I was living in Australia and being employed in Domino's industry, I was able to see myself countless times of miracles. This post focuses on a variety of quick miracles that has happened.

After a four hours to five hours shift, I was able to a conversation with one of the former employees that I worked with. I was asking him if he would be interested to accept a copy of The Book of Mormon if I would give him one. He was able to explain to me that he was in active of the religion, followed by he was able to mentioned to me that he was a church member but he left when he was eighteen years old and have a copy The Book of Mormon on his desk. He hasn't read it, and was able to explain to me why he left the Church. Who knows, he might return back to Church one day. - 2019

Several times at work, I would leave my scriptures in the scriptures case and leave inside a store the I was employed at during my shift. My wallet and my personal keys able to fit inside of my scriptures case. Managers, shift runners and surely employees as well would have thought I had a big purse. One afternoon during my shift, I thought to become friends with an in-store employee. I asked her if she was a Mormon and she replied "Yes." She was able to explain to me that she just knew straight away who was employed is a Church member but didn't know who it was at first. She was surprised and seemed so happy that it was me because she saw my scriptures case during work.  She was planning on serving a full-time mission one day. - 2019

Another opportunity when I was rostered on a night off from work one evening, I left home and drove with my uniform on and I drove halfway mark from home to work. I called my youngest sister and I was able to talk to her for awhile and then I drove back home. I was able to see the group messages from work, and a manager was seeking for a delivery driver to come to work straight away. I was able to message to state that I was on my way. Who would have thought that I ended up working on my night off plus working from 10pm ish to 4am ish the next morning? It was super crazy and tiring. - 2018

One afternoon after my shift and an employee's shift, I was able see an employee is waiting for a ride from her relative to take her home. There has been multiple times when I offered to take her home and she constantly mentioned, no until one day, she might have soften her heart and decided to take my offer for me to take her home from work. I was able to get to know her very well, and finding out that she is less active of the same religion as mine. It was so cool. She always enjoyed those conversations, and she hopes to return to church one day. - 2017

"All of us have equal access to miracles."
- Donald L. Hallstrom.

While I was employed at a few particular Domino's stores of course not all at the same time, I was always have the strength and availability to work long shifts whether it was for rostered to work nine hours a day or twelve hours a day. I also had strength to have plenty of energy with no caffeinated drinks to keep me awake during my rostered shifts to work late nights and when I was rostered for shorter shifts but get asked to stay back and ended up working for closing shifts. I know it may seem crazy to you, but it was certainly insane for me at times. I still had energy at times to do groceries shopping after long shift at work and it would be about 2:30am ish or 3am ish the next day. - 2017

One week I was rostered to work for either fifteen hours or twenty hours but the shift runner who was in charge of making changes to the rosters constantly changed my roster so often because other employees was either too busy studying or having other commitments or just not available to work during that week. I was perfectly okay with the roster as long as I didn't get rostered to work on Thursday evenings from 7pm to 9pm.

At the end of the week, I ended up working close to sixty hours. I still remembered meeting up with the new store managers and shift runners. They asked a simple question to my previous store manager and shift runners if it was true for me to work that many hours, and the previous store manager says "Yes."

You might be amazed about it, but I was able to do it. I was studying at the time period as well, I was studying BYU-Idaho online for doing Pathways program.  - 2017

These miracles doesn't happen by chance, these miracles has helped me to talk and reach out one another. I didn't ever thought those employees in my life would be church members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Sometimes, it does take a new friend who is a church member to reach out those individuals who has lost their way and haven't been able to go to Church for either ages or still presently active.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Miracles Then and Now

Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish. 

This post is part one. This post focuses on October 1992 General Conference talk and it is called, "Miracles, Then and Now" by Thomas S. Monson. I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk and I hope you will learn something new.

Brother Thomas S. Monson mentioned the following, ".. In our lives, sickness comes to loved ones, accidents leave their cruel marks of remembrance, and tiny legs that once ran are imprisoned in a wheelchair.

Mothers and fathers who anxiously await the arrival of a precious child sometimes learn that all is not well with this tiny infant. A missing limb, sightless eyes, a damaged brain, or the term “Down’s syndrome” greets the parents, leaving them baffled, filled with sorrow, and reaching out for hope.

There follows the inevitable blaming of oneself, the condemnation of a careless action, and the perennial questions: “Why such a tragedy in our family?” “Why didn’t I keep her home?” “If only he hadn’t gone to that party.” “How did this happen?” “Where was God?” “Where was a protecting angel?” If, why, where, how those recurring words do not bring back the lost son, the perfect body, the plans of parents, or the dreams of youth. Self-pity, personal withdrawal, or deep despair will not bring the peace, the assurance, or help which are needed. Rather, we must go forward, look upward, move onward, and rise heavenward.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father’s help is near.

"Believe in miracles. .... Hope is never lost." - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland.

Perhaps no other has been so afflicted as the man Job, who was described as “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:1.) He prospered by every measurement. In other words, he had it all made. Then came the loss of literally everything: his wealth, his family, his health. ...

To all who have suffered silently from sickness, to you who have cared for those with physical or mental impairment, who have borne a heavy burden day by day, year by year, and to you noble mothers and dedicated fathers - I salute you and pray God’s blessings to ever attend you. To the children, particularly they who cannot run and play and frolic, come the reassuring words: “Dearest children, God is near you, Watching o’er you day and night.” (Hymns, 1985, no. 96.)

Count Your Blessings: Hymn. "... When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings; name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done. …

Are you ever burdened with a load of care? Do not be discouraged; God is over all. Count your many blessings; angels will attend, Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end."

To any who from anguish of heart and sadness of soul have silently asked, “Heavenly Father, are you really there? … Do you hear and answer every … prayer?” (Children’s Songbook, no. 12), I bear to you my witness that He is there. He does hear and answer every prayer. .."

If you would like to read the whole talk in your own time or now, here is the link below.
www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1992/11/miracles-then-and-now

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A God of Miracles

Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately three minutes to five minutes to read from start to finish. 

I would like to encourage you to ask and answer the following questions "What is your definition of your understanding of who is God to you?" "Do you believe in God?" either now or in your own time.

This post is based on an April 2001 General Conference talk called "A God of Miracles" by Sister Sydney S. Reynolds. I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk. 

Sister Reynolds mentioned, "Behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, and it is that same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are” (Mormon. 9:11). Moroni proclaimed that Jesus Christ did many mighty miracles, that many mighty miracles were wrought by the hands of the Apostles, and that a God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever must be a God of miracles today (Mormon 9:18; Mormon 9:9).

Think of the miracles of the Old Testament. Remember Moses and the parting of the Red Sea. For all future generations of Israelites, the great miracles that led to their deliverance from Egypt provided undeniable proof of God’s existence and His love for them.

In this dispensation we witness the great miracle of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth. It began when a young boy entered a grove of trees near Palmyra, New York, and poured out his heart and his questions to a God he believed could answer him the God of miracles. And miracles have followed in this dispensation mighty miracles including the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, which is itself another testament of Jesus Christ.

Just as important as these “mighty miracles” are the smaller “private miracles” that teach each of us to have faith in the Lord. These come as we recognize and heed the promptings of the Spirit in our lives.

I believe that all of us can bear witness to these small miracles. We know children who pray for help to find a lost item and find it. We know of young people who gather the courage to stand as a witness of God and feel His sustaining hand. We know friends who pay their tithing with the last of their money and then, through a miracle, find themselves able to pay their tuition or their rent or somehow obtain food for their family. 

We can share experiences of prayers answered and priesthood blessings that gave courage, brought comfort, or restored health. These daily miracles acquaint us with the hand of the Lord in our lives.

How do we access the quiet miracle that the Lord works as He transforms us, His children, into worthy heirs of the kingdom of God? I believe it is made possible because “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). I believe it comes as we yield to the enticings of the Spirit, put off the natural man, and are filled with the love of God (see Mosiah 3:19). 

“Through the Atonement of [Jesus] Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel” (A of F 1:3). All mankind that includes me, that includes you we can each have part in the Atonement, the greatest of all God’s miracles."

I encourage you to read the whole talk in your own time. Here's the link below.

www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/04/a-god-of-miracles

Stay Tuned until next time.