One step at a Time

Today, 191 years ago, a young man named Joseph Smith received into his possession, the gold plates. An ancient record of the people in the ancient Americas. He had no idea how receiving those plates would change his life. From the moment he had them in his possession, he was constantly sought after and attacked. People never stopped trying to get them from him. His family suffered so much at the hands of keeping them safe.  I am not saying that Joseph Smith is some perfect man. He is far from, but so are the rest of us. When one talks about prophets, I feel like they are expecting him to be at the standard of Jesus Christ Himself. That isn't true however. God can make whomever He sees fit to do His work, be who does it. You see, there is only one Jesus Christ. There is only one perfect person who has walked this Earth and that is He. No prophet that walks this earth will ever be at that same level. That would mean Christ was not the only perfect One to walk this earth. Yet,...

Well summer has come and officially gone. Hard to believe that I have come home from a mission, gone to Illinois, adjusted to living in Arizona, visited Provo, and then officially came out to school. And as of yesterday, started school! First Day of Fall 2018 The last few weeks have been quite a whirlwind, but regardless I have been able to see God's hand in so many ways. Seeing God's hand is something I wanted to just write a little bit about tonight. Having a class with Sidney on the first day? I think yes. As I may have mentioned in a previous post (can't actually remember if I did or not), one of the many lessons I learned on my mission was to be aware and recognize God's hand in my life. To not give Him the credit would be avoiding the truth of whose hand is in everything. When I look around me. At the relationships I have. At the life I live. Everything I have. Everything that has happened to me. Every single part of my life, God has been invol...