Unexpected Insight

So today I watched General Conference. It was amazing. All the talks were great. So I got home and decided to restart and organize me and my life again. You know, see where I can improve me. As I was figuring out my scripture study and how to make it more of a habit and where I need to be in my scripture study to finish when I have planned to I got distracted by this wonderful website known as facebook. which is great for keeping in touch with people and talking to friends and such, but the games on it are rather pointless and just time wasting things.

Anyways, I was playing one of the games and looked down and my scriptures were open to Alma 60, underlined was the last bit of verse 23. It says "the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outter vessel be cleansed also." I thought it was interesting that as we listen to General Conference we learn more about how to be better. I also thought of Jeffery R. Holland's talk from the second session of conference. He spoke of Pornography and the decaying moral values. He spoke of true love verses lust. I thought of how it is so horrible that it is such a problem. I'm currently writting a paper about people with and overcoming addictions so Elder Holland's talk went right along with all the things I've been reading and studying.

As I was in thought while reading that part of the verse, I decided to go to the begining of the verse. The whole verse says "Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then the outer vessel be cleansed also." The first question hit me pretty hard, "do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things?" it was like it was asking me personally, and telling me that eventhough I'm not involved in doing something really bad, just sitting and not doing anything was not something good to be doing. God is not going to say I'm guiltless while sitting on the computer doing nothing anout what is happening in this world. I should be involved in helping others and myself to be strong to stand againt evil.

Also the other insight that I thought of was the fact that many talks in conference were based on the importance of the family. Well I'm not a parent or anything but a good person (couple people technically speaking) leads to a good marriage which can lead to a good family and a good family teaches each individual in it to be a good citizen leading to a good/ better society/ nation/ country/ and eventually the world. Just a thought there, but it works I think. It starts small though, it starts with me and it starts with you, each and every person can make a difference if they strive to be their own personal best self.

Well those are my thoughts at the moment.

A Friend Always,
Me


PS Today at lunch I had a pretty cool experience. I was sitting at lunch with a couple of friends and the guy told a pretty cheesy joke "how do you make pink fluff blue? make it hold it's breath." haha. anyways, so the other person there said she wasn't sure what was weirder, that one or a joke she had told the other person there earlier. The guy couldn't remember the joke and so the other girl there told it. it wasn't exactly appropriate and I wasn't sure how to react, it wasn't funny at all. (I'm not sharing it, just so you know). Then she started talking about another message that wasn't appropriate that she'd gotten from the friend. the guy said "If it's dirty don't tell it." I was sooo grateful he had said that. I don't know the girl very well so I didn't know what to say, but he did and it was awesome. As we left he said he had wished he remembered the joke she was going to tell so that way I wouldn't have had to hear it. It made me so happy someone knew my standards and was willing to stand up for me. It was so great. I told him I was grateful for what he said as well. It is just proof that there are awesome people out there, just in case you thought there weren't anymore. :) Just some thoughts from me :) Have a great day.