Feel good

Tonight I feel good. A sacrament hymn that we sang today had a verse in it that I really appreciated. The hymn is titled With Humble Heart (Hymns 171) and the verse said:

As I walk daily here on earth, give me Thy spirit as I seek a change of heart, another birth, and grow, dear Lord, to be like Thee.

I don't know what happened, but I felt the Spirit go through me and I felt like I was being spoken to and like I was perhaps forgiven for my shortcomings. I felt really light afterward. You know, the thing about this mortal life is that it is broken up into time. We have seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years and at any time we can decide to change. We can all say, right now, that at this moment, I'm going to stop doing this, or, I'm going to start doing this. The Lord sees this and rewards accordingly and on the spot. We don't have to wait until Sunday to stop a certain thing and we don't have to wait until Sunday to start another. We can choose now and now is acceptable to the Lord.

If we start now to make the necessary changes in our lives, then we will be okay. Then, Sunday will come, we'll take the sacrament, and we'll feel that the Lord is pleased with our effort and will also aid us in our progress.

I went home teaching this afternoon. The family that we visited is really cool. They're really open and loose. I enjoy going to these people to get to know them and maybe bring a little bit of the Spirit with me and my companion to their home. My companion is very easy to get along with and he's pretty cool, too. He suggested that after his grass grows in his yard that my wife and I get together with his wife and the two families that we teach and have a small get-together at his place. It's cool because everyone is right around the corner from us.

This evening I proceeded to lay my hands upon the head of my brother-in-law to pronounce a blessing. I feel that it went well and pray that he will heed the advice given him that he may better himself and get out of the rut that he dislikes so much. I know that the Book of Mormon will be the key to this for him. READ IT AND FEEL ITS POWER.