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70 times 7!!!!

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven."

    Not all of us are perfect and not all of us forgive. I'm going to be honest, I don't forgive people easily. I hold grudges. But every time I read this scripture I ask myself, "Why do I hold so many grudges? Why can't I follow Jesus's example and listen to what he says?"
   After growing up in Texas I got picked on alot cause of my weight and my color. I took it for years until I retaliated and got into fights with the people that teased me. Back then I did not know about the gospel as I do now. I thought if I faught them they would stop teasing me. Well I was right but thats not what Jesus would of done. When I moved up here and read the bible the first time in my life and read this scripture and looked back in my life and said "Dang, I was horrible." But now I try my best to forgive people everyday but it's really hard to. Here's a Song that talks about this scripture. Enjoy.

I’ve been living in this house here
Since the day that I was born
These walls have seen me happy
But most of all they’ve seen me torn
They’ve heard the screaming matches
That made a family fall apart
They’ve had a front row seat
To the breaking of my heart

7 times 70 times
I’ll do what it takes to make it right
I thought the pain was here to stay
But forgiveness made a way
7 times 70 times
There’s healing in the air tonight
I’m reaching up to pull it down
Gonna wrap it all around

I remember running down the hallway
Playing hide-and-seek
I didn’t know that I was searching
For someone to notice me
I felt alone and undiscovered
And old enough to understand
Just when I’m s’posed to be learning to love you
Let me doubt again

7 times 70 times
I’ll do what it takes to make it right
I thought the pain was here to stay
But forgiveness made a way
7 times 70 times
There’s healing in the air tonight
I’m reaching up to pull it down
Gonna wrap it all around

I lost count of the ways you let me down
But no matter how many times you weren’t around
I’m all right now

God picked up my heart and helped me through
And shined a light on the one thing left to do
And that’s forgive you
I forgive you

7 times 70 times
If that’s the cost I’ll pay the price
7 times 70 times
I’ll do what it takes to make it right
I thought the pain was here to stay
But forgiveness made a way

7 times 70 times
There’s healing in this house tonight
I’m reaching up to pull it down
Gonna wrap it all around
Yeah
I’m gonna wrap it all around

I’ve been living in this house here
Since the day that I was born

Missionary Work!!!

Here's a little message on missionary work and what the missionaries do.

TEMPLES!!!!

       It was a week after I got baptized, I got the privilege to go to the Cardston Temple. It was Lindsay Perrone, Robin Walter, Larissa Walker, Dayson Mathison, Brother Dalton and I. When we got there and out of the car everything was quiet and so peaceful. I didn't know what to expect when I walked into the Temple. Happy, excited, anxious or everything above.
       Once I walked into the Temple, for a second it felt like my heart stopped and I couldn't move until Dayson said go on Kenny it's alright. I walk up to the front desk and Brother Dalton said "We are here for our appointment." They Front desk person told us to go into this room and sit down until the speaker is ready to come see us. So I went and sat in the corner and opened my scriptures and started reading the book of Helaman. The speaker came in and asked if there are any first time people here with us today to please stand up. So I did. Then Brother Dalton and I went in the back room and got our jump suits and then go change to go do baptisms for the dead and conformations.
       When I got into my white jump suit I followed brother Dalton and Dayson into this small room to do conformations. We were going thru the names but one stuck to me like glue. The name sounded really familiar. After that was done we did the baptisms and that was an unbelievable experience for me. Dayson was the one that baptized the people we conferred but I was the one that was getting baptized. Every time I got dunked in the water and back up I felt renewed. It felt sorta like the person we were baptizing felt renewed. When we got done we left the temple and headed home.
       When I got home, I went thru my old yearbooks home when I was in Texas and I found the name of the person I conferred. I was really closed to his family so I called them that night and asked how they were doing and they said he died by a drive by shooting at school. I started crying for the loss of my friend but when I got off the phone with them I started cry tears of joy because I got the privilege to baptize him and confer him and I will be waiting till I see him again at the gates to Heaven.

My Conversion

Last February, I was texting my friend Kyla Allred to see how things are going and what she's up to today. She was saying "I'm at church right now. Oh boy you are missing out big time Kenny." Then she said "You should come next sunday?" She was just being sarcastic but what she was not expecting a txt saying "Sure. Why not it might be fun." So all that week I was getting txts and calls from Kyla saying you should wear this, this and this and be at the church and this time and do not be late. So Sunday comes along and I get ready to go to church. I actually get their 5 minutes early. I walk in and I do not know what to do, I can not find Kyla she was a little late to Sacrament meeting so I sit in the very back so no one would see me. Then Kyla walks in and see's me and we go sit right up front where I did not want to sit. But oh well. So after Sacrament I felt pretty good, we went to Sunday school then I went to Priesthood and Kyla went to Relief Society. When church was done I found Kyla and as a joke she invited me to go to seminary and again she did not expect me to walk in 5 minutes late to the Senior seminary class the next day. Everyone was really surprise that I got up that early and came to a church class. Anyways, I really liked seminary so I went back everyday till graduation. But before graduation, Sister Guest (The seminary teacher) asked me if I would be willing to meet with the missionaries. I was kinda iffy on it because I have heard some good and very bad things about the missionaries but I thought to myslef, "If I have been to church and seminary. What would meeting the missionaries hurt?" So the next day I gave them my number and right after school I got a call from them asking if they can come over that Saturday. I said "Sure why not." So that Saturday, the Missionaries Elder Miner and Elder Baumgarten then Elder Lanham and they gave me a lesson about the church and Joseph Smith. After the lesson we had a word of prayer and I asked them if they can come back over and of course they said yes. So actually the next few weeks they came over and gave me the rest of the missionary lessons. Around April I started praying about if the Book of Mormon is true, if this is the true church of Jesus Christ, if Joseph Smith was really a Prophet and if Thomas S. Monson a True prophet today. Then on May 26, 2010 I finally got my answer thru a dream. I was in this Big house and a young lady came up to me and said "Isn't it time to teach the Book of Mormon to your children." I said "Yes it is." So I started reading the book to them and after the last few verses in the Book of Moroni, one of my sons asked me how he can get baptized, get a Patriarachal Blessing and get his priesthood. Then I woke up and asked Heavenly Father if that was my answer. Then I went back to sleep and had it again and again and again. Then I woke up and said "Alright Heavenly Father, I get it. This dream is my answer." The next day was the last day of seminary, thats when I told everyone that I decided to get baptized in the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter Day Saints. Then on June 19, 2010 Elder Miner Baptized me in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Ever since that day I have felt renewd and reborn. Now I am almost 19 and I got my Patriarachal Blessing, my Melchezidke Preisthood and I have decided to go on a MISSION. I am so grateful that the gospel came into my life. I am so excited to go on my mission because I know in my heart that I will teach the gospel to people that are eager to listen just like I was. I know this church is true. I know the Book Of Mormon is true and is another testament of of Jesus Christ. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Thomas S. Monson is the True Prophet today and I know that he will not lead us astray. I know that my Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ lives today and he loves me and knows me by name. And I says these things in the sacred name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

My Foundation

And now, My sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our redeemer, who is Christ. The Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds,yea, his shafts in the whirlwind,yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power oveer you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build the cannot fall.
~Helaman 5:12