Reaching the One

I am sleepy and I don’t want to do homework so I am justifying writing on my blogo as a good excuse to take a break from it.  Juana hear a sad story?  I was on campus for over a dozen hours today.  Who does that?  I do that apparently.  Anyhows, life is so good and I am really blessed.  Really busy, really tired, really overworked, but really blessed.  So, as I type I am watching an old vhs of Mulan and wearing sock monkey footie pajamas.  Yeah, life is good.  I want to share a lesson with ya’ll..  A lesson that has probably changed my life this semester that, I know if applied, can change your life too…  Haha, I am gonna get all Mormon on you now…  Share some scriptures and how they have shaped my life.  Hopefully it all makes sense to you because I have it connected in my mind.  J

In SRC we chose a scripture to be kind of our motto and we memorized it and recited it each week.  The scripture is 3 Nephi 11:15 and I just love it!  “And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets that should come.”  So, the background of the scripture is that Jesus Christ has been resurrected and went to visit the Nephite people in the Americas.  When he went to the Americas he took the time to meet with every single person.  If Jesus Christ gave each person one minute of His time it would have taken 35 hours for every person to feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet and to truly know that He was Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind.  The part that is so incredible to me is the people went forth “one by one.”  Like Jesus Christ, we have the power to reach out and touch the one through our simple acts of service.  Let’s go to scripture numero dos.

These two scriptures are kind of my motto, I would say…  They are Doctrine and Covenants 58:27-28.  “Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; for the power is in them.”  Isn’t that so incredible?  “The power is in them.”  The power is in each of us to change the world.  To reach out and minister to the one.  We, as children of God who know our divine worth and potential should be anxiously engaged in this great work because we have the power to change the world by reaching out to the one.  “The power is in them…”  I really like that.

Scripture 3: I found this one yesterday in my scripture study and I love it.  Abraham 1:18-19.  “Behold, I will lead thee by my hand, and I will take thee, to put upon thee my name, even the Priesthood of thy father and my power shall be over thee…  through thy ministry my name shall be known in the earth forever, for I am thy God.”  God is leading us in our service and, as we follow Him and do what we are supposed to do, we will take His name upon us will have His power.  It is mostly the last little bit that really touches me.  As I serve those around me and find the one person whose life I can touch, God will be glorified and He will be known for goodness eternally, through me.  This is getting really random.  Maybe I will do one more and then stop...  And sleep.  These scriptures kinda relate to the past ones but they are a set of scriptures truly changed my life…  Here is my story…

I have a good friend named Laura.  I was visiting with Laura one day and she suggested that we room together next semester.  I said that I couldn’t because I had signed a contract and paid rent and everything already so she said that maybe in the spring we could and to pray about it.  I totally forgot about it that night but the next night I remembered and was saying my night prayer and talked about my future and the spring semester and what to do with my life and everything and the Spirit told me to read my scriptures…  Since it was late I pulled out my ipod and clicked on the scripture app and the chapter that it opened up to was Doctrine and Covenants 4 which, as you may know, is the classic missionary chapter…  So, I started reading it: “Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men.  Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.  Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work…”  Anyhows, the Spirit kind of hit me in the head with a two by four and told me that I was being called to the work and that the Lord was ready for my service and I needed to prepare and go on a mission.  So, missionary service has kind of been on my mind lately and I am preparing to serve a mission.  Anyhows, in my ward missionary prep. class the teacher man told us about his friend who works at the taco bus and he told us out homework was to get to know this guy and get him to church so we went to the taco bus and met him and became his friend and he said he would come with us last week to Church but he was in Pocatello but hopefully this week he will come!  Isn’t that great!  I love serving people and trying to reach the one.  I just have so many experiences where I have followed the Spirit to talk to a person or to visit a person or to go to some random place and how through these experiences when I reached “the one” I was really growing and it was really my life that was touched.  I am so grateful for the opportunities that have been placed in my life where I can be an angel in someone’s life.  That was a random tangent…  Anyhows, I should get back to my homework or go to bed or something…  But, life is so good and I am so happy!  The Church is true!  Heavenly Father loves each of us and has a plan for each of us!  People are placed in our lives that we can touch and as we utilize these opportunities to reach the one we can grow.