The Conformist.

In our everyday life how can our moral values be disrupted by social gatherings? Think about it are you really yourself when you have your pals or family around you? When it comes down to knowing who you are, do you know who you are? Are you honest with yourself and everyone else around you? There are many times in life where you will forget and you will swim up the stream instead of swimming down. There's a thousand ways things will fall apart but it's no ones fault but yours. You won't be able to distinguish who've you've become compared to who you used to be.
So hold on to you moral values and be true to yourself because your dignity is all you have. Don't lower your standards to become popular or become someone who's up to date to every trend. Don't be afraid to be different, there's plenty of people already trying to be someone they're not. embrace your uniqueness. If it bothers you to be different, then go ahead and change everything, else if it bothers you that much. You will just become a conformist that's what society wants you to be. Society doesn't want you to have your own mind, it wants to control your every move, they want to tell you what to become. They throw images through the media, even all throughout your life, they want you to become a good citizen of the United States. I remember standing in line before going to class in elementary, saying the Pledge of the Allegiance, and by the sixth grade you already know the National Anthem Of the United States, and you sing it with pride. This is your nation, this is  your time. Do something with it. Don't get me wrong, this is my pride and joy, I've become the person I am today due to the fact that I was raised here. I will stand behind this nation even if at times I may not agree with what they decide to do.

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they teach you that you should be true to yourself and that you should obey all rules and laws. You must follow, you must seek and then you will find the truth. The church encourages you to become a successful person in this world. They give you opportunities to be someone and to prove yourself to them. They don't want you to be a conformist they want you to conquer the world if you want to. As long as you choose the right thing. As a person who grew up outside the church, I had my goals I always left them unreached due to the lack of ambition. Now that I'm in the church, I know who I want to become.

HE loves YOU, like a MOTHER loves her CHILD.

Looking at a mother and their new-born, everything is amazing on the outside, meanwhile we don't know the struggle she had to go through in labor. My mother had four children, when I ask her "Mom, what's it like to be pregnant? Mom, what's it like to give birth?" my mom answers, " Its the most wonderful experience to know that there's a human being growing right inside of you, but I can't tell you what it's like to give birth, everyone's experience is different.". Meanwhile, my neighbor can't stop talking about the three different experiences she had. Now, I can't picture my life without my mother. Today for instance, I saw my mom and I started to noticing wrinkles she didn't have before, I started noticing the grey hair that she hasn't dyed. We don't stop to look at the "BIG PICTURE" like my sister says, we need to stop to see the whole image, but we're to busy looking at one spot. Creating a family doesn't come with an instruction manual, it happens and we learn from the lessons life throws at us. Yesterday I spent time with two of the many cousins I have, one of them with a new born baby. I realized that her baby boy receives all the love of the world from his mother, plus a bonus from the rest of the family and extended family.

I know this is home when I see my mother's face, I know that this is the truth when I see my dad. Sometimes, seeing them both together is all I need for my day to be okay. I find peace when I'm with them. The love they have for me and my older siblings is all I know. They don't give up on you, even when they have too. We all make mistakes because we're humans. They always tell me, if I knew then what I know now things would be different, but I wouldn't change a thing. I dislike seeing my mother when she feels bad, because she doesn't have her mother to give her consolation. I love seeing when my father gets sick because my grandma is always checking up on him, suddenly in my eyes he turns into that new born who depends on his mother to eat, to be changed, and most of all to be loved. 

I love listening to my father and my older sister talk about the significance of the Gospel in our lives. They don't need to give you their testimony, you could just feel it. The transformation didn't happen from one day to another, it wasn't the easiest thing for my sister. I am a witness of the many blessings we have at home. I am a witness of the blessings you could get. Our Heavenly gives us an abundance of blessings and at times we're so ungrateful we don't seem to give thanks. If you ever meet a LDS Missionary, they'll ask you "How do you know that Our Heavenly Father LOVES YOU?". Trust me I've tried answering and I couldn't come up with such a significant answer, and that's weird because I always have something to say, but that question is so simple but the answer is so great you can't describe it. 

We're just learning but with guidance, we won't have the necessity of  "wanting to go back, to how things used to be" instead we would say. I've come too far, and I won't go back to how it was. 

God Loves and Helps all of His Children -BISHOP KEITH B. MCMULLIN

(LDS General Conference Oct. 2008)

• "The Church welfare plan embodies this divine pattern, and faithful Church members follow it. Their offerings provide succor to the widow, care to the orphan, and refuge to the suffering." 
• "As the Lord’s prophet, President Monson counsels: “At times there appears to be no light at the tunnel’s end—no dawn to break the night’s darkness.… We feel abandoned, heartbroken, alone. If you find yourself in such a situation, I plead with you to turn to our Heavenly Father in faith. He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.” 
• "The ultimate help from Heavenly Father comes to us through His Son, “for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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I am a daughter of god

I never met my grandmother, due to the fact that she passed away four years before I was born. Growing up, I always heard stories of this strong powerful woman; filled with faith and belief. She was a mother, a grandmother, and a philosopher. I wish I could hop onto a time machine and see her from afar. From all the stories that I've heard, all of them are based into how much she loved her children, how much she loved GOD. Just recently while doing my genealogy, I asked my mother if she knew why my grandma passed away, she told me some bogus answer. I was determined to find out why she passed away, one of my many cousins gave me the answer I was longing for. Although the answer I got wasn't something I wanted to hear, I thought that she had died from pneumonia, but she told me "Grandma had lung cancer, she didn't want anyone to know." She had her reasons why she didn't want everyone to know, but to me that was a terrible decision.
 I know that my grandma was a great woman, I know that she's in Heaven with Our Heavenly Father. She's surrounded by her children, in their perfect state. She was a daughter of Our Heavenly Father, she served him faithfully until the day she died. With tears in my eyes I could say that I am proud to be called her granddaughter, and that I will serve him faithfully:

I Am a Daughter of God

I am a daughter of God,

he is my Heavenly Father.

He loves me, he is my friend.

I’ll serve him faithfully.

I’ll be a witness of God,

I’ll strive to live righteously.

In all I do and where-ever I go

I’m proud to be a daughter of God.

I’ll comfort those that need comfort,

I’ll mourn with those that mourn,

I will help to bear the burdens of others.

I will serve God, I’ll be his witness,

I will live as a daughter of God.

-WORDS ADAPTED FROM MOSIAH 18:9

Music by Brent N. Jorgensen

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