Atonement blog

I came across another blog that I love, The Atonement Blog. It's definitely a place to go for a spiritual lifting up.




"The Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ is the heart and core and center of revealed religion."


-Elder Bruce R. McConkie, Christ and the Creation

Moroni 7:48

Moroni 7:48

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.

Just really liking this right now :)

Mi Testimonio muy simple

I wrote this out while in Mexico to practice to give it in sacrament meeting... jaja :)

Yo sé, con ninguna duda, que esta iglesia es la iglesia verdadera. Sé que José Smith fue un profeta llamado por Dios, y que nuestro profeta actual es Tomás S. Monson. Sé que el libro de mormón es un libro verdadero y la mejor guía para la vida que existe. Es la palabra de Dios. Sé que Dios nos ama mucho y conoce a cada persona íntimamente e individualmente. Sé que Dios oye nuestras oraciones y es consciente de nuestros problemas, y Dios quiere bendecirnos con todo. Sé que Jesucristo es el Salvador, nuestro hermano mayor, y el hijo de Dios. Sé que por la expiación de Cristo, todos puedan salvarse, si obedezcan las leyes del evangelio, guarden los mandamientos, y escuchen a la voz del espíritu santo. Estoy muy agradecida por las bendiciones que Dios me da.

translation: I know without a doubt that this is the true church. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God, and that our current prophet is Thomas S. Monson, I know that the book of Mormon is a true book and the best guide to life that exists. It is the word of God. I know that God loves us very much and knows each person intimately and individually. I know that God heard our prayers and is conscious of our problems, and God wants to bless us with everything. I know that Jesus Christ is the Savior, our older brother, and the son of God. I know that through the atonement of Christ, all can be saved, if they obey the laws of the gospel, keep the commandments, and listen to the voice of the holy spirit. I am very thankful for the blessings which God gives me.

Remember Lot's Wife, Jeffrey R. Holland

Read the whole devotional HERE.

"...I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterday however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future -- faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives."

"There is something in us, at least in too many of us, that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life -- either mistakes we ourselves have made or the mistakes of others. That is not good. It is not Christian. It stands in terrible opposition to the grandeur and majesty of the Atonement of Christ. To be tied to earlier mistakes -- our own or other people's -- is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist."

"...it is not right to go back and open up some ancient wound which the Son of God Himself died trying to heal."

"If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don't keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone saying, "Hey! Do you remember this?" Splat! Well, guess what? That is probably going to result in some ugly morsel being dug up out of your landfill with the reply, "Yeah, I remember it. Do you remember this?" Splat. And everyone comes out of that exchange dirty and muddy and unhappy and hurt, when what our Father in Heaven pleads for is cleanliness and kindness and happiness and healing."

"God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are, and with His help, where you are willing to go."

"Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ is the "high priest of good things to come."

An Apostle's Easter Thoughts on Christ