This past week was awesome. I started some great things, and I have a few things that I would like to report on of current events.
My job at Fun Fine Art is a success. I am working the production of the local artist's work. CC Joelle even let me start a twitter for the website. I hope to develop a dynamic community therein. The first tweet features a piece by Alphonse Mucha entitled Daydream. I don't particularly like his art because it is especially suggestive, but the fine art print featured from our collection is good at https://twitter.com/#!/FunFineArt. I did some research and put a link on another tweet, giving a quote about the man's legacy. That link shows the suggestive artwork of his that I found to not like.
The NASA news for the week is the they are seeking to land of an asteroid; also, they are going to do research on Jupiter with spacecraft Juno.
If you are interested in what else I started, I started learning sign language! I met my best friend at my first introduction to the language, and we are at it again. Since I am going to be a special education teacher, I may need to know the silent communication.
Another thing that I started this week is prepare for a race that I am going to do this next Tuesday. I run most morning, but this race called the Core is a run swim run. I needed to get use to swimming again. I have not swim in many years. Thursday morning I went to swim in the ocean to see how it will be like, and after swimming a few laps of the coast. I felt that I should get out, a little cold. Getting out of the water felt weird, I was almost dizzy. I was shivering like crazy for a long time. It was a refreshing first swim. I will have to tell you about the race next week.
The same next Tuesday is supposed to be the date that our government needs to pay for it's bills. On my twitter of current events I have not been covering this because of the Obama drama. The politic of this is insane that I cannot cover it, so yeah.
Oh yeah. Last Sunday I was preparing to host the Family Home Evening, an evening for the family to get together. The FHE was to introduce everyone that I can in the singles branch to the service opportunities of the LDS church online. I mainly checked my mormon.org account because my father was going to speak on the other internet opportunities, namely http://www.familysearch.org/eng/indexing/frameset_indexing.asp and new.familysearch.org. These websites have great and key opportunities to accomplish the work of Genealogy work. Checking my Mormon.org account, I had a suggestion to make the entries shorter, so I did that last Sunday. Simpler is better, so you can check it out. It is not as scary any more.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Time seems to be relative; for me, a week feels like a long time. I love it.
Hello
How is everyone?
I am as good as ever.
This past week was insane. The day that I wrote my last entry Norway was offended by a literal insane person. The aggressor is an individual, a lone wolf terrorist. He was an anti-islam insane guy, killing 77 people and wounding many others. His endeavor had two bombing even exploding a government building. The majority of the deaths was by the individual himself in a shooting at a youth camp. Receiving the news of this and many other terrorist attacks around the world, I feel for them. My heart goes out to the victims, and I hope to offer some words of comfort.
This week I will put these word further in this entry instead of mine. Miracles come by the prayer of faith, and comfort comes of God; although, time may be relative. Truth is not. People may think it is, but that saying of 'Truth is relative' is an oxymoron. Truth is to unite us all.
God is a man of great mercy and justice. There are two parts of our souls given to us to take care each other with the most love that we can muster. God the Father created our spirits, and God the Son created our bodies and this earth. The spirit is eternal. They never are put to an end.
When our mortal bodies die and are taken from the spirit, God takes care of them with all our faithful beloved decease elders. The dead of this world join the spirits of our grand eternal family. The righteous children of God live the life of paradise in the spirit world. This life of paradise is not eternal nor eternal life; however, it is a state of rest, peace, and happiness with everyone.
Happiness can never be restored to a wicked person, so in the spirit world they are naturally miserable as they were in mortality. This miserable state is when they suffer the pains of Hell, for this time is for them to suffer for their sins in Hell. They suffer according to great justice and mercy of God until the resurrection.
Since Jesus Christ broke the bonds of death, every beloved child of Heavenly Father will receive a body of flesh and bone as the father has one. This is the resurrection to receive an immortal body.
The bible talks of bodies Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial. These words represent three kingdoms of glory. According to the great mercy and justice of God, these kingdoms satisfy the desires of every man.
The kingdom of God, where the Father and the Son live, is the Celestial Kingdom. The other two kingdoms of glory are live without God.
The Terrestrial kingdom is for the many righteous, but they don't want to be completely humble to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus will visit this kingdom occasionally.
The Telestial Kingdom is for the wicked.
There is a fourth kingdom called outer darkness, where Satan and his followers, are sent to, but the vast majority of mortal being cannot be considered candidates. This kingdom is reserved for those who deny the Holy Ghost, and that sin is impossible for a most high percentage of the beloved children of God.
These glories are granted according to the great mercy and justice of God at judgement according to our works and desires. There glories are eternal. The life of the Celestial Kingdom is Eternal Life, a life where an eternal marriage and posterity is thy blessing.
Christ has suffered that pains of Hell that we may receive the mercy of God. We can all be forgiven through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all according to our works and desires. Let us work out our salvation and seek the desire to be completely humble to the Gospel, so we may all be united with God and our family in eternal life, a bless of fullness of joy, the greatest gift that God can give.
I hope these words are comforting.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
How is everyone?
I am as good as ever.
This past week was insane. The day that I wrote my last entry Norway was offended by a literal insane person. The aggressor is an individual, a lone wolf terrorist. He was an anti-islam insane guy, killing 77 people and wounding many others. His endeavor had two bombing even exploding a government building. The majority of the deaths was by the individual himself in a shooting at a youth camp. Receiving the news of this and many other terrorist attacks around the world, I feel for them. My heart goes out to the victims, and I hope to offer some words of comfort.
This week I will put these word further in this entry instead of mine. Miracles come by the prayer of faith, and comfort comes of God; although, time may be relative. Truth is not. People may think it is, but that saying of 'Truth is relative' is an oxymoron. Truth is to unite us all.
God is a man of great mercy and justice. There are two parts of our souls given to us to take care each other with the most love that we can muster. God the Father created our spirits, and God the Son created our bodies and this earth. The spirit is eternal. They never are put to an end.
When our mortal bodies die and are taken from the spirit, God takes care of them with all our faithful beloved decease elders. The dead of this world join the spirits of our grand eternal family. The righteous children of God live the life of paradise in the spirit world. This life of paradise is not eternal nor eternal life; however, it is a state of rest, peace, and happiness with everyone.
Happiness can never be restored to a wicked person, so in the spirit world they are naturally miserable as they were in mortality. This miserable state is when they suffer the pains of Hell, for this time is for them to suffer for their sins in Hell. They suffer according to great justice and mercy of God until the resurrection.
Since Jesus Christ broke the bonds of death, every beloved child of Heavenly Father will receive a body of flesh and bone as the father has one. This is the resurrection to receive an immortal body.
The bible talks of bodies Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial. These words represent three kingdoms of glory. According to the great mercy and justice of God, these kingdoms satisfy the desires of every man.
The kingdom of God, where the Father and the Son live, is the Celestial Kingdom. The other two kingdoms of glory are live without God.
The Terrestrial kingdom is for the many righteous, but they don't want to be completely humble to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus will visit this kingdom occasionally.
The Telestial Kingdom is for the wicked.
There is a fourth kingdom called outer darkness, where Satan and his followers, are sent to, but the vast majority of mortal being cannot be considered candidates. This kingdom is reserved for those who deny the Holy Ghost, and that sin is impossible for a most high percentage of the beloved children of God.
These glories are granted according to the great mercy and justice of God at judgement according to our works and desires. There glories are eternal. The life of the Celestial Kingdom is Eternal Life, a life where an eternal marriage and posterity is thy blessing.
Christ has suffered that pains of Hell that we may receive the mercy of God. We can all be forgiven through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all according to our works and desires. Let us work out our salvation and seek the desire to be completely humble to the Gospel, so we may all be united with God and our family in eternal life, a bless of fullness of joy, the greatest gift that God can give.
I hope these words are comforting.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Friday, July 22, 2011
Spiritual Thought of the Week: Trust God
This past week an experience that I had inspires me to write concerning the hard task to trust someone. I want to speak concerning trusting God more specifically. My first two entries had spiritual thoughts, so I want to add the spiritual thought of this week now.
Trust is often a thing that determines the depth of a relationship. In a mortal relationship, it is often a blessing upon righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity within a bond. Appealing to the trust of a person bring an openness from the person. This can be most comforting to both ends of the union. Living according to the way that will bring greater trust into a relationship brings a greater embrace of between each other. As I said righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity can develop the bonds that you desire with you loved ones.
A person with all of these attributes is God. He is a person of flesh and bone as we are; however, everything about them is perfect. God the Father, the father of our spirits, loves us a lot. He desires the best for us unto the blessing of living with him with all his blessings. He developed a plan to make his desires happen. Before God created this world, he gather all this children, discussing everything concerning his plan. In heaven, where we abode before our live on Earth, the knowledge of wickedness was most limited, but we need to learn of wickedness, live life, and make choses for ourselves without the knowing God and everything. We need to find what we truly want from live, chasing after it whether it is a live of a complete embrace, a partial embrace, or a very limited embrace of God's desires. Our Father is a man of Justice. He does not allow any degree of sin abide in his presence, so we have a long way to be sinless.
When our Heavenly Father presented this beautiful plan of happiness, he organized everything with his perfect wisdom. He knows everything, for the author of the plan of our redemption from sin is himself. He wrote this plan to be very person and most lovingly to try to give us the best opportunity come to find our own greatness in him. Making the chose to try our best concerning God's will blesses us with the mercy of God from the mediator, the man that makes everything happen. Without this mercy all our lives would be lost. The man that makes everything happen even the creation of the Earth that we inhabit is the Son of God. We are to do everything in the his name of Jesus Christ according to his perfect will as his father, for this is how were earn his mercy, trusting his perfect will. God has the way that will lead to a truly blessed life. He backs his promises with his infinite power, and all his words will be fulfilled in our lives. It takes a lot of trust to live according to his word. His word comes from, a man, Jesus Christ and his chosen prophets; although, it is natural to seek and trust God. The opposition in life makes everything hard for us.
The leader of this opposition is Satan. I have faced his opposition as I am a missionary. We see his work limiting the embrace of God by making life as difficult as possible to receive the word of God. A few weeks ago I tried to meet with a sister that she may receive the word of God and the blessing of the way by learning and living according to the wisdom of God. Everything seemed to be going wrong. It was raining. She was grounded. We also even got into a car accident, but we trusted God's protection and the car was lead to not be damaged. The following week she became badly ill. Her phone was messed up, and she was busy with family stuff. All of this was to limit her from receiving the word of God and the blessing of embracing and trusting God. Over these past months, trying to meet with her, I learned to never give up, for God loves her. He wants her to receive all the blessing that he has for her. We have to work out the salvation of mortal family.
Thank you for your time in reading this. I feel that I can write a lot more, but it is plenty long already. I did not even get to write of the experience that inspired me to write this.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Trust is often a thing that determines the depth of a relationship. In a mortal relationship, it is often a blessing upon righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity within a bond. Appealing to the trust of a person bring an openness from the person. This can be most comforting to both ends of the union. Living according to the way that will bring greater trust into a relationship brings a greater embrace of between each other. As I said righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity can develop the bonds that you desire with you loved ones.
A person with all of these attributes is God. He is a person of flesh and bone as we are; however, everything about them is perfect. God the Father, the father of our spirits, loves us a lot. He desires the best for us unto the blessing of living with him with all his blessings. He developed a plan to make his desires happen. Before God created this world, he gather all this children, discussing everything concerning his plan. In heaven, where we abode before our live on Earth, the knowledge of wickedness was most limited, but we need to learn of wickedness, live life, and make choses for ourselves without the knowing God and everything. We need to find what we truly want from live, chasing after it whether it is a live of a complete embrace, a partial embrace, or a very limited embrace of God's desires. Our Father is a man of Justice. He does not allow any degree of sin abide in his presence, so we have a long way to be sinless.
When our Heavenly Father presented this beautiful plan of happiness, he organized everything with his perfect wisdom. He knows everything, for the author of the plan of our redemption from sin is himself. He wrote this plan to be very person and most lovingly to try to give us the best opportunity come to find our own greatness in him. Making the chose to try our best concerning God's will blesses us with the mercy of God from the mediator, the man that makes everything happen. Without this mercy all our lives would be lost. The man that makes everything happen even the creation of the Earth that we inhabit is the Son of God. We are to do everything in the his name of Jesus Christ according to his perfect will as his father, for this is how were earn his mercy, trusting his perfect will. God has the way that will lead to a truly blessed life. He backs his promises with his infinite power, and all his words will be fulfilled in our lives. It takes a lot of trust to live according to his word. His word comes from, a man, Jesus Christ and his chosen prophets; although, it is natural to seek and trust God. The opposition in life makes everything hard for us.
The leader of this opposition is Satan. I have faced his opposition as I am a missionary. We see his work limiting the embrace of God by making life as difficult as possible to receive the word of God. A few weeks ago I tried to meet with a sister that she may receive the word of God and the blessing of the way by learning and living according to the wisdom of God. Everything seemed to be going wrong. It was raining. She was grounded. We also even got into a car accident, but we trusted God's protection and the car was lead to not be damaged. The following week she became badly ill. Her phone was messed up, and she was busy with family stuff. All of this was to limit her from receiving the word of God and the blessing of embracing and trusting God. Over these past months, trying to meet with her, I learned to never give up, for God loves her. He wants her to receive all the blessing that he has for her. We have to work out the salvation of mortal family.
Thank you for your time in reading this. I feel that I can write a lot more, but it is plenty long already. I did not even get to write of the experience that inspired me to write this.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I am free for the Summer; no more of my Chemistry Summer class
I am free for the summer now, but I will not waste my time blogging more. I am waiting to help a friend, writing an essay, so I thought to relax and write an entry to my blog.
This week so far has been good. I don't feel as solid for the final of my chemistry class than the other tests, but that is okay.
I have seen more freedom and connection in the use of my blog. Writing my sci fi story, I felt restricted because it may be a hassle to give people the link or try to share it with them through Google docs. I can just refer them to my blog.
I am kind of tired of hackers. The world seems to be freaking out about hacking; although, it has always been a problem. I see the thing that made the topic popular for news organizations to actually care to report on this stuff is the hacking of the online Playstation community. This past week I exclaimed on my twitter that I am tired of hearing about Murdoch. I received like more than a hundred tweets in the morning of Tuesday, and I do not follow these news organizations to hear every little detail about what happens in legal trials like Casey Anthony. Everyone seems to be getting hacked. Even today I received a scare that I was being hacked. I don't think so though, but I feel that my friend was hacked.
A friend from Jamaica, where I served a mission for a couple years, greeted me, and referred me to a video. It suppose to be defaming me. It had comments from all my friends from Facebook, talking about it. The video had a link to update an Adobe. Trying to see the video, downloading this update, I saw that the link had a virus. I can put the link on here, but the update problem has a virus on it, and I have no idea what the video is.
http://79.115.1.33/100000988967113
I talked to a friend that I suppose saw the video, for she commented on the video; however, she did not see the video or comment on it. After some conversation, I was lead to actually chat to my friend, telling him that he may be hacked. He went off line for a while, and I saw him come on again. I said "hello," insisting a response.
"it look so i am going to change it" was what he responded with.
I sent an email to my friend that seems to be hacked, and a team that I found online from Facebook to report hackers to is highnoon-support@happylatte.com. They seem to be on it.
I was thinking of writing a brief summary of the hacking scene that I have seen, but I had to write about it after my experience today.
Following up on the NASA reporting as last time this past week Atlantis return for its mission.http://ti.me/ooVdTX Before it returned I was surprised to hear that the next direction of space exploration, saying that it is up to capitalism now. There is now a race to the moon. I asked my parents if they would be interested in going to the moon on vacation, and my mother said that she would rather walk down to the beach, but I would like to go.
This week so far has been good. I don't feel as solid for the final of my chemistry class than the other tests, but that is okay.
I have seen more freedom and connection in the use of my blog. Writing my sci fi story, I felt restricted because it may be a hassle to give people the link or try to share it with them through Google docs. I can just refer them to my blog.
I am kind of tired of hackers. The world seems to be freaking out about hacking; although, it has always been a problem. I see the thing that made the topic popular for news organizations to actually care to report on this stuff is the hacking of the online Playstation community. This past week I exclaimed on my twitter that I am tired of hearing about Murdoch. I received like more than a hundred tweets in the morning of Tuesday, and I do not follow these news organizations to hear every little detail about what happens in legal trials like Casey Anthony. Everyone seems to be getting hacked. Even today I received a scare that I was being hacked. I don't think so though, but I feel that my friend was hacked.
A friend from Jamaica, where I served a mission for a couple years, greeted me, and referred me to a video. It suppose to be defaming me. It had comments from all my friends from Facebook, talking about it. The video had a link to update an Adobe. Trying to see the video, downloading this update, I saw that the link had a virus. I can put the link on here, but the update problem has a virus on it, and I have no idea what the video is.
http://79.115.1.33/100000988967113
I talked to a friend that I suppose saw the video, for she commented on the video; however, she did not see the video or comment on it. After some conversation, I was lead to actually chat to my friend, telling him that he may be hacked. He went off line for a while, and I saw him come on again. I said "hello," insisting a response.
"it look so i am going to change it" was what he responded with.
I sent an email to my friend that seems to be hacked, and a team that I found online from Facebook to report hackers to is highnoon-support@happylatte.com. They seem to be on it.
I was thinking of writing a brief summary of the hacking scene that I have seen, but I had to write about it after my experience today.
Following up on the NASA reporting as last time this past week Atlantis return for its mission.http://ti.me/ooVdTX Before it returned I was surprised to hear that the next direction of space exploration, saying that it is up to capitalism now. There is now a race to the moon. I asked my parents if they would be interested in going to the moon on vacation, and my mother said that she would rather walk down to the beach, but I would like to go.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
yet another awesome week in the life of alexnhicken
This past week was crazy. There is still great violence all over the world. Last Thursday I organized my twitter better. My first twitter is a mess of all the current events that I feel are important to retweet. The way that I organized it was by the following different areas of the world: the Middle East, South America, North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. One may think that it is crazy to make new email addresses to organize my twitter, but it is an unacknowledged service to support the need to know the calamities of the world. I receive hundreds of texts a day, and I retweet the meaningful ones. A final twitter that I made was named alexnhumanity to reinforce the retweets that I felt meaningful relating to humanity.
I posted a couple other sites that I am apart of or are mine. I have two project websites that are mine: Exsiar and DNA turn on.
Exsiar was an attempt to make a manga or a Japanese comic book of my Cross Country and Track experience. It is a nonfiction though, and it takes an extremely amount of effort to recall all the facts needed to have an accurate story. I wrote one chapter, which I still have, and I may post the rest of the drawings.
The DNA turn on project is a sci-fi novel summary that I am writing. I have the whole series written out, and I am summarizing it for now, and I am going to expound on it as time goes on.
I have a couple other websites that I am somewhat involved in that I will post. The first is funfineart.com, and the second is weekly updated two year missionary service of my little brother Trevor Hicken in Bolivia at elderhicken.tumblr.com
This past week was crazy in the world. There is still great violence in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Afganistan, Yemen, Ireland, Turkey, and much more.
The Embassies of France and the United States were invaded at Syria by activists on Monday.
There was a three explosion terrorist attack in Mumbia, India. There was about a hundred injured and seventeen killed. This happen last Wednesday. The terrorist group was suspected to be from Pakistan namely Lashkar-e-Taiba, and a terrorist group named Deccan Mujahideen seems to claim the attack. I asked my father why, and I still don't understand why people would do terrorist attacks. It must be mainly for carnal desires. That is a simple way to explain it. For more reading one may go to http:/
Today is a big day. There are many things that I can write of that are meaningful of today, but the one that I want to point out is the work of NASA. I seems that I reported on their work last time, so here is a follow up achievement of NASA. They sent a probe traveling for four years to orbit an asteroid called Vesta, and the probe finally made it there today!
Some more great news is the rebels against the Libyan Government to overthrow the evil regime have the upper hand against Gaddafi. Yesterday my country of the United States received the rebel's government as a success, recognizing it.
Earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and violence abound in these day, for they are the signs of the times.
In my days this past week was awesome. I was able to go to a baptism last Wednesday for a young girl, taking upon herself the covenants of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This covenant is important to receive the blessings of God as I said before. The promise of receiving salvation is upon faithfully observing to keep the commands of these covenants. A covenant is a mutual promise or deal. The covenants are to be taken upon ourselves with great reverence, for it is with God. We promise to trust his perfect wisdom and live by it, and God promises great blesses. The most important of which is the true hope to abide in the presence of our Heavenly Father for eternity, for this true hope is a knowledge that the grace of God will grant us salvation upon our best efforts as we serve him according to his expectation. A most important blessing that we can have in mortality is the second half of the ordinance of baptism.
The scripture of John 3:5 says we need to be baptized by water and the spirit. The baptism of Spirit is more mysterious to the world than the baptism by water. The new testament spoke of a baptism of John the Baptist and one of Jesus similarly to the scripture water and spirit respectively. After Jesus Christ was crucified, the disciples were left to run his church. His disciples were given the authority to baptize people to the blessings of the spirit. Acts 8:14-17 speaks of them performing the ordinance that I saw performed last Wednesday by the same authority, completing the baptism of this young woman. We call this the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost is also known as the comforter. For those who have received the Gift of the Holy Ghost they can see its blessings abundantly in comfort, guidance, learning, and many other ways. This past week the blessings of the Gift of the Holy Ghost was impressive. I usually don't receive this type of bold guidance. Searching for a job, I was lead to go to my community college's website with job opportunities. As I browsed the opportunities, I recognized the feeling explained in the scriptures as a feeling of the spirit in the scripture of Luke 24:32, saying, which helped the disciples of Christ recognize Christ following his resurrection, for they asked "Did not our heart burn within us?" I felt this burning within my heart, and I knew this job opportunity with funfineart was lead by God. The opportunity so far seems to be good. The artist called me, and I seem to have to job at this moment.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth. God needed to call a latter-day heritage of the prophets, for the truthfulness in the Gospel with lost as the Dark Age was approaching the inhabitants of the Earth as earlier than 476 AD. Our Heavenly Father has fulfilled his promise to do so according to the prophecies, and we live today with a modern prophet, doing the same work as all the true prophets of the past. His name is Thomas Monson.
I so testify in my written word in the name of Jesus Christ.
I posted a couple other sites that I am apart of or are mine. I have two project websites that are mine: Exsiar and DNA turn on.
Exsiar was an attempt to make a manga or a Japanese comic book of my Cross Country and Track experience. It is a nonfiction though, and it takes an extremely amount of effort to recall all the facts needed to have an accurate story. I wrote one chapter, which I still have, and I may post the rest of the drawings.
The DNA turn on project is a sci-fi novel summary that I am writing. I have the whole series written out, and I am summarizing it for now, and I am going to expound on it as time goes on.
I have a couple other websites that I am somewhat involved in that I will post. The first is funfineart.com, and the second is weekly updated two year missionary service of my little brother Trevor Hicken in Bolivia at elderhicken.tumblr.com
This past week was crazy in the world. There is still great violence in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Afganistan, Yemen, Ireland, Turkey, and much more.
The Embassies of France and the United States were invaded at Syria by activists on Monday.
There was a three explosion terrorist attack in Mumbia, India. There was about a hundred injured and seventeen killed. This happen last Wednesday. The terrorist group was suspected to be from Pakistan namely Lashkar-e-Taiba, and a terrorist group named Deccan Mujahideen seems to claim the attack. I asked my father why, and I still don't understand why people would do terrorist attacks. It must be mainly for carnal desires. That is a simple way to explain it. For more reading one may go to http:/
Today is a big day. There are many things that I can write of that are meaningful of today, but the one that I want to point out is the work of NASA. I seems that I reported on their work last time, so here is a follow up achievement of NASA. They sent a probe traveling for four years to orbit an asteroid called Vesta, and the probe finally made it there today!
Some more great news is the rebels against the Libyan Government to overthrow the evil regime have the upper hand against Gaddafi. Yesterday my country of the United States received the rebel's government as a success, recognizing it.
Earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and violence abound in these day, for they are the signs of the times.
In my days this past week was awesome. I was able to go to a baptism last Wednesday for a young girl, taking upon herself the covenants of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This covenant is important to receive the blessings of God as I said before. The promise of receiving salvation is upon faithfully observing to keep the commands of these covenants. A covenant is a mutual promise or deal. The covenants are to be taken upon ourselves with great reverence, for it is with God. We promise to trust his perfect wisdom and live by it, and God promises great blesses. The most important of which is the true hope to abide in the presence of our Heavenly Father for eternity, for this true hope is a knowledge that the grace of God will grant us salvation upon our best efforts as we serve him according to his expectation. A most important blessing that we can have in mortality is the second half of the ordinance of baptism.
The scripture of John 3:5 says we need to be baptized by water and the spirit. The baptism of Spirit is more mysterious to the world than the baptism by water. The new testament spoke of a baptism of John the Baptist and one of Jesus similarly to the scripture water and spirit respectively. After Jesus Christ was crucified, the disciples were left to run his church. His disciples were given the authority to baptize people to the blessings of the spirit. Acts 8:14-17 speaks of them performing the ordinance that I saw performed last Wednesday by the same authority, completing the baptism of this young woman. We call this the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost is also known as the comforter. For those who have received the Gift of the Holy Ghost they can see its blessings abundantly in comfort, guidance, learning, and many other ways. This past week the blessings of the Gift of the Holy Ghost was impressive. I usually don't receive this type of bold guidance. Searching for a job, I was lead to go to my community college's website with job opportunities. As I browsed the opportunities, I recognized the feeling explained in the scriptures as a feeling of the spirit in the scripture of Luke 24:32, saying, which helped the disciples of Christ recognize Christ following his resurrection, for they asked "Did not our heart burn within us?" I felt this burning within my heart, and I knew this job opportunity with funfineart was lead by God. The opportunity so far seems to be good. The artist called me, and I seem to have to job at this moment.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth. God needed to call a latter-day heritage of the prophets, for the truthfulness in the Gospel with lost as the Dark Age was approaching the inhabitants of the Earth as earlier than 476 AD. Our Heavenly Father has fulfilled his promise to do so according to the prophecies, and we live today with a modern prophet, doing the same work as all the true prophets of the past. His name is Thomas Monson.
I so testify in my written word in the name of Jesus Christ.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Good Evening (my first blog entry on the Tenth of July 2011)
I am Alex Hicken.
I am a college student, who is somewhat intelligent. I am an avid writer, keeping updated in life in my poetry, my music, my notes, my journal, and other hobbies like twitter.
About a month ago I began keeping myself updated with current events through many news organizations on twitter. Since I have lived with minor learning disabilities all my life, I desire to be a special education teacher. I don't have good reading habits, so the hundreds of tweets that I receive a day is good for now. My twitter account name is the same as the name of my blog, alexnhicken.
I am a Mormon, so I will keep this as kind of as a journal. That I may express myself in my desire to apply the scripture of the Doctrine and Covenants section 88:78-79. This is the word of God given to his people through Joseph Smith Jr., his first prophet of this last dispensation of the fullness of times.
"Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand; Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—"
This week I heard a lot of people say that this past week went by really fast, but to me looking back it feels like the Fourth of July was like two weeks ago. I was able to celebrate the independence of this great country by marching in a couple parades with the Watsonville Band. It was Sam Farr's Seventieth Birthday, so we stopped in the middle of the World's Shortest Parade. Surrounding his car, the band played happy birthday for him.
On news that impressed me on Twitter, it was almost annoying that every single news organization said former first lady Betty Ford died. I received like twenty texts from twitter saying that. The reverence for the former first lady was impressive.
The reverence for the current president is disgusting though. This evening my dad looked at my twitter, and he saw that Obama was calling for a decision on the debt talks in like ten days. My father was disgusted calling him a hypocrite because not too long ago President Obama turned in his budget, which asked for trillions of dollars, adding to the debt. Not one of the Senate approved of his budget. I can't talk much on politics because it is pointless.
This past week was also a monumental because NASA sent Atlantis, our space shuttle to the international space center. This final work of the series of projects sparked mixed feeling. The Economist called it a waste of money and a pointless mission.
Another great new of our times that I received in the tweets of this week is that our defense secretary believes Al Qaeda is on the run. They are defeat-able.
In my life, this past weekend was just as exciting as anything. I was able to go to the temple of God twice. At the Oakland Temple, I felt like I was on business in the work of the lord to help people receive the necessary ordinances for their salvation.
The work of temple is scary and mysterious to billions of people of this earth because we do work for the children of God who have died. The work is not mysterious or hidden, but people just don't take their time to try to understand truth. It is part of the plan of Salvation. We do work for people who never received the ordinances of the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; for example, an ordinance of the fullness of the gospel is baptism. The majority of mortal people would have a hard time, accepting the love and mercy of God. They may say how can one live a life of sin, be baptized by proxy, and receive the blessing of Salvation. There is a spiritual world, where all our died loved ones live. Many want the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; however, they cannot receive the blessing of salvation without the ordinances of the Gospel. Every knee shall bow and every touch shall confess Jesus is the Christ because our faithful dead elders of mortality preach the gospel in the spirit world to our beloved ancestors who never heard it, so they may have a chance to receive it too. It is as the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints go around in mortality, preaching the gospel that we may enjoy understanding truth and living up to it now. This is the work of the temple to give our deceased ancestors a chance to receive the gospel. The work is similar mortality, for the personalities of residence do not change in the spirit world. They are just as humble or stubborn as they were in their mortality; however, the power of the word of God changes people, purifying them little by little.
It is most important to ensure that we are worthy to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our life now. I feel like I will be writing forever explaining everything. I will have to wait though. I have written more at http://mormon.org/me/1857-eng/AlexanderNielsonH. This is my mormon.org account. I encourage all to explore the wisdom that God has given to us. God has called Joseph Smith and his successors so that he can reveal and restore truth to us. Reading the bible can be so confusing. There is so many different interpretations. There is truth to be understood in the word of God, so we can all be united in one mind and spirit. Don't be shy to request the missionaries to learn of the fullness of the gospel and the plan of salvation at mormon.org.
I have one more most wondrous doctrine that I desire to explain. I participated in this most wondrous work in my first trip to the temple of our God this past week. In this work we seal the marriages of our beloved fathers and mothers, so their marriages are no longer 'to death do they part'. Their marriage will be sealed for time and all eternity! Please don't over think this, for this is the greatest blessing that we all strive for to have a family, a happy perfect family that will live forever. You can be the father of your children forever. You can be the brother of your sister forever. Your can be the son of your father forever. God is the judge of the technical stuff of mortality, so there is no use doubt his great wisdom of his plan of Salvation. Let us trust God.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
I am a college student, who is somewhat intelligent. I am an avid writer, keeping updated in life in my poetry, my music, my notes, my journal, and other hobbies like twitter.
About a month ago I began keeping myself updated with current events through many news organizations on twitter. Since I have lived with minor learning disabilities all my life, I desire to be a special education teacher. I don't have good reading habits, so the hundreds of tweets that I receive a day is good for now. My twitter account name is the same as the name of my blog, alexnhicken.
I am a Mormon, so I will keep this as kind of as a journal. That I may express myself in my desire to apply the scripture of the Doctrine and Covenants section 88:78-79. This is the word of God given to his people through Joseph Smith Jr., his first prophet of this last dispensation of the fullness of times.
"Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand; Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—"
This week I heard a lot of people say that this past week went by really fast, but to me looking back it feels like the Fourth of July was like two weeks ago. I was able to celebrate the independence of this great country by marching in a couple parades with the Watsonville Band. It was Sam Farr's Seventieth Birthday, so we stopped in the middle of the World's Shortest Parade. Surrounding his car, the band played happy birthday for him.
On news that impressed me on Twitter, it was almost annoying that every single news organization said former first lady Betty Ford died. I received like twenty texts from twitter saying that. The reverence for the former first lady was impressive.
The reverence for the current president is disgusting though. This evening my dad looked at my twitter, and he saw that Obama was calling for a decision on the debt talks in like ten days. My father was disgusted calling him a hypocrite because not too long ago President Obama turned in his budget, which asked for trillions of dollars, adding to the debt. Not one of the Senate approved of his budget. I can't talk much on politics because it is pointless.
This past week was also a monumental because NASA sent Atlantis, our space shuttle to the international space center. This final work of the series of projects sparked mixed feeling. The Economist called it a waste of money and a pointless mission.
Another great new of our times that I received in the tweets of this week is that our defense secretary believes Al Qaeda is on the run. They are defeat-able.
In my life, this past weekend was just as exciting as anything. I was able to go to the temple of God twice. At the Oakland Temple, I felt like I was on business in the work of the lord to help people receive the necessary ordinances for their salvation.
The work of temple is scary and mysterious to billions of people of this earth because we do work for the children of God who have died. The work is not mysterious or hidden, but people just don't take their time to try to understand truth. It is part of the plan of Salvation. We do work for people who never received the ordinances of the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; for example, an ordinance of the fullness of the gospel is baptism. The majority of mortal people would have a hard time, accepting the love and mercy of God. They may say how can one live a life of sin, be baptized by proxy, and receive the blessing of Salvation. There is a spiritual world, where all our died loved ones live. Many want the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; however, they cannot receive the blessing of salvation without the ordinances of the Gospel. Every knee shall bow and every touch shall confess Jesus is the Christ because our faithful dead elders of mortality preach the gospel in the spirit world to our beloved ancestors who never heard it, so they may have a chance to receive it too. It is as the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints go around in mortality, preaching the gospel that we may enjoy understanding truth and living up to it now. This is the work of the temple to give our deceased ancestors a chance to receive the gospel. The work is similar mortality, for the personalities of residence do not change in the spirit world. They are just as humble or stubborn as they were in their mortality; however, the power of the word of God changes people, purifying them little by little.
It is most important to ensure that we are worthy to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our life now. I feel like I will be writing forever explaining everything. I will have to wait though. I have written more at http://mormon.org/me/1857-eng/AlexanderNielsonH. This is my mormon.org account. I encourage all to explore the wisdom that God has given to us. God has called Joseph Smith and his successors so that he can reveal and restore truth to us. Reading the bible can be so confusing. There is so many different interpretations. There is truth to be understood in the word of God, so we can all be united in one mind and spirit. Don't be shy to request the missionaries to learn of the fullness of the gospel and the plan of salvation at mormon.org.
I have one more most wondrous doctrine that I desire to explain. I participated in this most wondrous work in my first trip to the temple of our God this past week. In this work we seal the marriages of our beloved fathers and mothers, so their marriages are no longer 'to death do they part'. Their marriage will be sealed for time and all eternity! Please don't over think this, for this is the greatest blessing that we all strive for to have a family, a happy perfect family that will live forever. You can be the father of your children forever. You can be the brother of your sister forever. Your can be the son of your father forever. God is the judge of the technical stuff of mortality, so there is no use doubt his great wisdom of his plan of Salvation. Let us trust God.
I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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