Lehi's dream....was he dreaming of the HIGHLINE TRAIL!?!?!??

OK so yesterday Natalie C, a few missionaries and I went up to Glacier National Park and we drove up to the Sun road. Well at the top of the sun road there is this trail called "The High Lin Trail." So we decided we would hike the trail. It was going great until we hit the VERY narrow path on the side of the cliff where you had to grab the rope on the side. Like this

As you can see it very narrow and that's the ONLY thing that you had to hold on cause one wrong step you would be falling a long way down. Well when we were coming back I started thinking of Lehi's dream about the Iron rod and how there were 4 groups that were clinging to the iron rod but some of them let go and went to the spacious building but what really got me was the last group. They held onto the iron rod to the end and they made it to the tree and part took of the fruit and the other people were mocking them but it did not phase them cause they knew what was right. So looking back at yesterday and at that rope.         

If any of us took a wrong step and let go of that rope (Iron Rod) We would not be coming back. So brothers and sisters cling to the Iron Rod to the end and you will be richly blessed and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

SATAN! A sneaky little bugger?

I know its been a while since I have posted last but I have been busy with work and preparing to go on a mission to Cleveland Ohio and all. ;-) but anyways In Sunday school today I heard a really cool and really true story.

"If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water the frog will just jump out. Now if you put the frog in the pot of cold water and just warm the water a little at a time the frog will like it and soon enough he will jump out or die in there."
--Elder Seth Floyd Hanson

SO TRUE! That is how Satan works in our lives. He doesn't go full blast on us. He slowly works on us until we break and follow him. I will like to share another story with you and this happen.

I got my mission call on June 29th and I was called to the Cleveland Ohio. I was so excited that night after I opened it but that split second that I doubted myself SATAN CAME! The next few weeks after that I would think of going on my mission then again that split second of doubting he would come. I felt like nothing worked. I prayed at at least 3 times a day, read my scriptures every chance I got and it didn't help. So this past week I was so pumped I hit 5 more weeks till I leave for Cleveland I was thinking of what I was going to do on my mission how I was going to teach I was even practicing my door approaches. I wasn't even doubting this time and when I fell asleep not even 20 mins later I felt a hand that was literally burning my leg. I immediately jumped and I saw him. SATAN was at the end of my bed and I stared at him for what felt like an eternity but for only an hour. It was the longest hour ever. I felt like Heavenly father was not with me anymore and I felt like my shield was gone that night. So the next day I called the Elders in my area Elder Hanson and Elder Walch and I told everything to Elder Hanson and both of them gave me a priesthood blessing and that night I went home and I laid in my bed and right beside my bed I have the poem "Footsteps" and at the end of that poem it says "When you saw one set of footprints that was when I was carrying you." That night I felt Heavenly Father's arm engulf me and I felt like I had my shield back again.

I share this with you because it brings me back to the frog story. I was the frog to Satan and each experience    got more and more stronger like the water got hotter and hotter. Then the last experience I had was the boiling point of the water.

Brother's and sisters I want to bear you my testimony that SATAN is REAL and is around us every day trying to tempt us and persuade us to go his direction and not Heavenly Father's direction. I KNOW this church is true with all my heart and I KNOW that we have a living prophet who is Thomas S. Monson who leads us and guides us every step of the way. I KNOW this Gospel is TRUE and I am so excited to preach it to the people of Cleveland Ohio. I say these things in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.