Sunshine

Ok...well as you may have noticed the new look to my blog. Thanks to my one and only AND not to mention, most wonderful older sister, Jeri Lin for helping me design it. She is a blogging guru, master, pro, you name it. Just check hers out here. Awesome, eh? Everyone thank her for the new Mormon Boy Swag looki. (Insert Round of applause).

Alright, now let us get down to the meat of the post. To start, I appologize for not being avid in the blog updating. I have recently began writing in a journal every night. I am pretty proud if I do say so myself. The reason why though is because I have an incentive..I bought one of those sketch book journals. All the pages are blank. No lines. No nothin. Ahh, scary! But I enjoy it. Every day I draw a picture of something that reminds me of that day and then I write about it with a fine tip sharpie on the back. Mind you, some of the drawings are quite crappy because I do them in about 5 seconds because it is super late at night by the time I get to it and I am just trying to stay awake. Anywho, today I did a drawing of a sun.

(This is for suspense)

I will come back to the sun a little later.......

I started institute yesterday evening! And may I just say it was awesome. Quite a bit different from seminary, but super super good. I learned so much in that hour and a half or so that I was there. I give a lot of credit to my teacher though, Brother Chatwin or Bishop Chatwin. That guy really knows how to bring the spirit into the room while teaching. And like I said I learned bunches. One thing we talked about was the plan of salvation which is the plan of our Heavenly Father and how lucky we are to know it. We also talked about being able to receive celestial glory...which is compared to the glory and brightness of the sun.

Well, I got to thinking as I always do. It being the first day of June of the year two-thousand and twelve here in Mesa, Arizona. And the sun is not a shy guy around here. In fact I believe the temperatures reached the 112 mark...wowzas. That is definitely on the toasty side. Those temperatures will make anyone feel a little uncomfortable. And if anyone says anything different....liar. Straight up.

Now time to tie it all up into a pretty bow. (Figure of speech). As I stated earlier, celestial glory=sun. Celestial glory=Heavenly Father's glory. So...we can assume that sun=Heavenly Father. (For my lesson purposes). The sun can make us uncomfortable...especially if we are unprepared. That is why we have things like A/C, sun screen, shade, all that good stuff. Heavenly Father can make us feel a little uncomfortable at times too...especially if we are unprepared to meet him or we aren't making the best choices in our lives. That is why he gave us his Only Begotten Son though, Jesus Christ, the atonement, the opportunity to repent. It truly is the greatest gift. So learn about it and use it in your own life. You wouldn't drive through Mesa, Arizona in a car with no A/C if it has the capability to do so. So you got the atonement, it is there for you. Use it. It's worth it.

And that is why I drew a picture of the sun in my journal...because I was feeling the uncomforts that it brings today.

Now don't be afraid to leave comments and questions. I will gladly answer. :)

Thanks for reading! :)