youth conference :)

From left to right

Chantel, Arianna, ME, Lily :)

That is all of us after lunch at youth conference walking to the troy auditorium!

Life is what we make of it.

Noone can force us to do something we don't want to do. Satan has no real bond over what we do, unless you let him. Recently I have been reading my scriptures more hanging out with people of my standards more and giving everything I have into being the best I can be. I can honestly say I have never been happier then when i'm doing family scripture study and hanging with my crazy friends amongst the church. like Chantel, Mallorie, the Alvarez girls, Hunter, Arianna, and Brooke each and every one of them have such a sweet spirit and I hold all of them very dear to me.

On bishop night at girls camp when President Cole came to talk to us he told us all that these are the moments we will look back on when life gets tough and we feel out of control. We will look back on the people who loved us unconditionally and times when we were at our happiest doing what was right.

How you look at life completely effects the way you enjoy it. I one hundred percent agree with that. When you are positive you will have so much more enjoyable memories out of life rather then when you were sulking about a time you did not get your way. To be positive you have to be living a positive life style and live the standards God has set for us. Sin is only a temporary satisfaction, heavenly fathers love is eternal. I can't remember word for word but Brother Anderson from the Quorum of the Seventy said that sometimes we give up eternal glory for something we wanted in the moment. Which happens all the time, sin is made out to be something that we can enjoy and should all be enjoying but in the scheme of life living a righteous life is so much more important and has so many more blessings then living in sin which is only a cheap imitation of happiness. sin was never happiness.

Today was mormon movie night and it was awesome being with all my friends and joke around and have such a good time without worrying about all the problems on my mind. like college and what i will do in my future and WHERE THE HECK IS MY FUTURE HUSBANDD! ;) haha! well good day!

i said good day!

so their were two muffins in an oven..

and one muffin said " its so hott in here" and the other muffin said " OH MY GOODNESS A TALKING MUFFIN!" hahahah :)

Yesterday at church my teacher felt inspired to share with us part of his patriarchal blessing with my Sunday school,consisting of four youth including me, and it got me thinking how I have gotten my interview for getting my blessing but have not gotten around to getting it. I was to scared and worried that I was not prepared for all the knowledge I was about to receive and I know we can only get it done once and I want to make sure that I am where I need to be when I get my blessing so I can get the most out of it. keeping myself righteous is a 24/7 battle with all the temptation I get, but I know if I keep my mind clean I can do it. so now i'm starting to think about all the things I need to do to get prepared for my blessing and its a little overwhelming.
Also during sunday school their has been a troubling issue on my mind about what happens when a missionary who is unworthy goes on his mission. So he then told me all about his mission and how in his area some unworthy things happened to some of his companions and they would be sent home, and I left with not the real answers that I wanted. after third hour he came and found me and said he felt like he did not answer my question correctly and then I told him about youth conference and how Brother Anderson from the quorum of the seventy had us ask any questions we were inspired to ask and I was too afraid to ask. Then he told me how when he was going over his lesson plan something didn't feel right and decided to this instead and now he knows why. I needed to have my question answered because this has been bothering me for months now. that how someone can lie and go on a mission and still do the things the lord wants him to do. he told me that I should pray and the lord will be able to answer my question.

when I get my answer i will be sure to let you all know! but who knows when that will be because the lord works in mysterious ways and its his timetable not mine!

It was so amazing to know that my sunday school teacher felt through the spirit that he needed to have a day where we all talked about what was on our minds. the power of the priesthood is a very powerful thing and I have a strong testimony that it is a true thing.

:)

Beautiful sundays

My name is Brianne but since you are reading my blog and will get to know me very well you can call me Bree :) I am an active youth at my local lds church and have been an active member since I was two years old. For those of you who are reading this I just wanted to be able to write a blog where all my fellow youth among the lds church can come and read my words and know that even though satans temptations are strong, and I will be the first to admit that it is so tempting to give into those temptations, heavenly fathers love for his children is so unbelievably strong.

Well I have recently just returned from troy university where my stake was in charge of youth conference and the week before that I was at girls camp where I was the youth leader. Being around all those wonderful people that were just like me and love living the standards that heavenly father has set for us so that one day we can return to live with him again was so..refreshing to say the least. I was able to be myself and know that I would not be judged because of things I do and lso the things I do not do. The theme at the girls camp I attended July 5th-9th was Christmas in July a lifestyle not just a holiday. People tend to be more giving around Christmas time and are more inclined to do random acts of kindness that we sometimes forget that we need to have that attitude all year long and always treat one another that way we would like to be treated.

Coming back home after being engulfed in all that support from the youth was so shocking. As soon as I came back their was texts about parties that people wanted me to attend and curse words and just things I have not been exposed to in two weeks and it was hard to tell all those people that even though I am their friends I will choose not to attend those parties where temptations will be thrown at me from every angle imaginable. I will choose to stand strong in my church and surround myself with only the best like the thirteenth article of faith says and I quote " If there is anything ^hvirtuous, ⁱlovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

When you hang around with trash you begin to stink. I believe when you stand as a witness of god at all time and at all places and strive to live the values such as faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, integrity, and virtue you are a beautiful child of god and will be blessed.

I love all the youth so much for all of their support that they unknowingly gave me and I would just like to thank you all who are reading this and hope that you will continue to follow this blog and are able to follow along with me on my journey and know that none of you are alone on your journeys, because heavenly fathers love for his children is unceasing. How lucky are WE!

love,

a daughter of god.