Your My Path

I know this path I walk is not as alone as it feels

I know how you are near and how you beg of me even through the unclear

You plea for my prayers I hear this in my heart as I pass through despair

I can feel borrowed strength from your word in my finger tips and palms

Letting me push up from the lowest depths of my sorrow you are my healer, my shield, my

shadow and you are my father

Quiet moments can be so hard to steal throughout chaotic days and everyday life. So hard to continually find each day as the sad days pass, bad days come and unexpected visits us. Finding these moments of peace where we can shut the world out and find truth are absolutely the most precious moments we can rely on.

These precious moments offer us the things that life strips from us security, confidence, assurance and clarity. We have the longest journey ahead and sometimes as we face the many day to day trials we unintentionally leave behind some of the best supplies he has left helping us along the way. Remembering and believing we are never too far from the trail. Finding and following the bread crumbs Heavenly Father has so perfectly laid at our feet leading us straight forward.

If we have forgotten what he has given us for instruction we can pray. If the way has become less visible with all the crazy influence of the outside we can also pray. If life becomes uncomfortable because a feeling of love has left us we can pray. To the rest of the world it is secret that the heart can be mended so quick, that burden can be lifted so easy, that peace in choices can feel so simple but to you and me it is only the best part of knowing the gospel.

Waiting for our open hearts in prayer, it is in those quiet moments that are so hard to find that Heavenly Father will remind us. I am honestly astounded when I think of the perfection that comes in “Remembrance”. There is not a cheat sheet in the world that can compare to the power of Remembrance. As difficult as it might feel scavenging for those quiet moments, I am sure of their importance.

Love Always,
A Mormon Girls Journal

My Internal Compass

Where is our internal compass pointing? Media, Modern technology and social influence often try and attract our attention opposite of where we believe we need to be. Heavenly father disregards competing with modern influences. Rather than compete our Heavenly Father relies in his confidence that we will choose among the things which he has left us to guide our journeys ahead.

Keeping to our covenants, faithful living and honest values invites with an open heart the spirit to bless our lives with a light which leads us onward. In my life having that light makes choosing the things which are selfless and honest made easy with a comforting assurance through his presence as I feel his loving hand in my life. While our hearts and minds stay focused on the straight path ahead we can remain prepared and alert to the world and troubles that may come. Recently I talk with a friend who opened up to me about feeling distant from the church and his confusion on where to turn.

I felt it easy to follow what he was trying to express through words completing his sentences, offering my thoughts and suggesting answers that might help him change things around. He said to me "Wow have you ever been inactive?" I explained to him that I had not ever experienced that for myself but I had seen close people around me fall inactive. After our talk I sat pretty alarmed in my own quick thinking to help sort out how he could get things back together. How did I help him piece everything together so simple? How did I make it seem so easy?

We understand that keeping faithful and keeping to our own covenants will allow us to find and identify what will bring us a more fulfilling happiness. We find these things because we place ourselves in appropriate places,around the things that are good and the things that will lift us. Where are we pointing our internal compass? Are we pointing it to the things of world? Are we desiring a life media glamorizes? Luckily for us when the we allow the spirit into our lives and we keep an honest heart the worlds tug on our internal compass weakens as we stand firm in trusting in our choices and beliefs.

The choices I make each day, the way I choose to live and all of the good in my life comes from good works that he encourages. Everything from the blessings that he provides to this never ending hope I have. This way of living this is all I know and the happiness that it brings me that’s all I need to know. So when it comes to giving advice to someone struggling like my own friend it wasn't too hard. In fact all I had to do was bare witness of what good has done in my life and how placing my heart on the right things has blessed me.

I firmly believe that heavenly father would never deny us what was best for us. Even though things might not work out how we thought, wished or preferred I trust in his all knowing. So what I will continue to do is center my life and my heart on my Heavenly Father and I figure everything else will fall into place from there.

Love Always,
A Mormon Girls Journal

This Saturday a beautiful beginning for the weekend where Heavenly Fathers many daughters will gather together in chapels, institute buildings, stake centers and in their own home. These are no ordinary women don't disregard them as anything less. All of these sisters are gathering together sharing one of the most compassionate, incomparable, undeniably powerful loves of all time. This great love is all for one truth.



As daughters of a high kingdom, sisters of a most loving father, mother's of his many children we come together in a day like this to strengthen our stands, remember our great works now and ahead, comfort the faithful that we all stand together as one. No matter how far apart and around the world we are from one another we can remain close in a unity to preserve what is right and the things which are good. Although we are far in distance at heart we are only finger tips away from one another with our gospel in one hand and light in the other. We shine vibrant among all of the chaotic colors in today's world.

With all the changing moral conduct, lifestyles and thought we stand among all of this change with one focus, living righteously. We are stronger than often we realize backpacking our testimonies, beliefs, faith through a time where everything seems in contradiction to our nature. Nevermind the world today however, today we will come together and remind each other that we are all " backpacking" this wonderful work and purpose in these times together.

Love Always,

A Mormon Girls Journal

Wishing Wells VS Prayer

Wishing wells, one of the oldest European myths. People believed that the guardians
or dwellers of a well would grant them their wish if they paid a price. Water was considered a gift from the gods, springs and wells were very sacred places. I sat outside waiting for a friend the other day coincidentally sitting by a small fountain that led to a wishing well.

I waited in boredom and as I did I continued to gaze down at all the different coins from pennys, to nickels and even dimes. I just stared in daydream wondering how many of those coins came from someone who gave up on believing in their own dreams. How many coins came as a last attempt to change what was wrong. How many coins were a desperate shout to the heavens for help or maybe a coin was dropped simply asking for a perfect ending. I felt a feeling of relief and thought "Well I'm glad I know all it takes is a prayer". That's just it what's perfect about the gospel is it is plain and clear. We all know, believe and understand that whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive Matthew 21:22.

What I find special about my prayers verses dropping a spare coin down a well is the certainty I walk away with. Unlike a wishing well I walk away with comfort, relief and a hope that everything will work the way it's suppose to. Europeans believed a wish would be granted if "a price was paid". Luckily for us our Savior has paid a price already and Heavenly father doesn't ask for anything more in material things all he asks is that we stay faithfull, indur and love him. When we kneel to pray each night we can name and plea for as many wishes as we would like not guaranteeing things perfect.

Asking in faith and good works we should know that our
prayers are answered with his all knowing what is best for us. As we walk away from a wishing well in the inner city we leave behind one wish, one coin and one more attempt to change things. We don't see or receive that coin back in the future, we forget more than likely the wish we made and we give up many more coins as we carry on in life dropping spare change in wells as a last resort. We can choose this method or we can choose to simply ask not the gods but a god a most loving, merciful and compassionate one.

Love Always,

A Mormon Girls Journal

Yesterday, Today and my tomorrow I want to continue to do not only my own will but I want to keep in mind what should he want me to do. I am in forever debt for his graciousness, his forgiveness and his voice he leads me through by prayer and miracles every day. How many times when we are in church do we really take in the beauty and compassion that is felt throughout the sacrament as we all sit side by side as believers, companions, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives for all eternity, Parents and children, doers of good and workers for his cause. If you haven't yet I encourage you to really embrace the love and strength that can be felt as you take a look around at all of our close ones who come together each Sunday as witnesses of the truth for the restored gospel, for the church and for his eternal plan. It will move you, humble you and if you are like me you might have to wipe away a few tears. The beauty of us coming together is remarkable evidence that as we gather together that we all agree and bare testimony that our Heavenly Father lives and his plan was, is and forever true.



~We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies ~ David A. Bednar

Love Always,
A Mormon Girls Journal

If you have to start somewhere why not here, if you have to start sometime why not now, If we got to start somewhere I say here. It's a new day that changes your whole life and its direction. It's not that you were stray nor lost you believed your path but you were walking in the dark trying to feel your way moving forward. You were borrowing the light of others when you needed more strength, hope or maybe reason. The beauty in a testimony is where faith lies, understanding and committing yourself to the word of wisdom even though you might not fully understand the " why can't I's" the meaning behind every specific guideline. I have a testimony of the scriptures and the gospel as a whole. I not only have an understanding in the idea of "his eternal perspective" but I believe in this eternal perspective. I believe in it so much that I rarely find myself questioning for a better explanation. When your faith in his perfect love, knowledge and intent are awakened everything will start changing for you. When you have a bad day you will realize that bad day was suppose to come. You have hardships and you will realize this is part of life and how you deal, learn and move forward. Having a perfect faith first takes work by keeping yourself worthy to feel the spirit of god. Then it is the laid foundation before you acquire more inspiration and knowledge behind the word of wisdom. I have been reading a book called "A Marvelous work and a Wonder" by LeGrand Richards. This is an excellent book and goes into depth a little more as far as our beliefs and principles we follow. I would definitely recommend it to a friend. There is a section that is especially for The Word of wisdom and very valid reasoning is given behind The Lords Law of Health. I pray that everyone can have enough faith and abiding instinct before feeling the need to know every fact and purpose and just like any other part of the doctrine you learn as you grow.


~I repeat the promise that those who hearken to the voice of these men whom the Lord has raised up 'shall not be moved out of their place' (D&C 124:45)~

Humbly,
A Mormon Girls Journal