IMMORTAL

"EVERY SOUL IS IMMORTAL,

A RIGHTEOUS SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND DIVINE"

 everyone has an immortal soul. our short time we have been given here on earth will determine our place in the heavens. each of us has the potential to become god like. we must never lose sight of where we are going or the way to get there. we have been given the tools to use and the guidance we need. 

"It's not who we are,

but what we do that defines us"

ways to succeed

If you are someone who strives for greatness think about this and apply it. you can pick any famous figure from history and brake down there attributes that helped them achieve greatness. what you will see is passion, knowledge, dedication and courage. first you must become truly passionate about something. you must love it and crave it. second you must learn all you can about it "knowledge is power". third you must dedicate yourself 110%. there will be days when you want a brake, but greatness does not take brakes so be dedicated. forth you must have courage, everything will feel like its trying to stop you. people will try to knock you down. you will feel alone and you will feel as if no one knows what your going through. "nothing worth having comes easy" so when it feels like all odds are against you and you want to quit, you must be courageous.
"he never said it would be easy, but it will be worth it" 

EVERYONE CRYS

Its just a fact that everyone crys

but when do we cry

do you cry when your heart is broken

or do you cry when you brake a heart

do you cry when you get hurt

or do you cry when you see others getting hurt

do you cry when you fail

or do you cry when you achieve

do you cry over love 

or do you cry when you fall in love

do you cry when your sad 

or do you cry when your happy

do you cry over death

or do you cry over life

do you cry when you fall down

or do you cry when you rise up

everyone crys

but when we cry, says who we are

FLY HIGH

"Birds of a feather flock together".... i love this quote because its so true. if you want to do amazing things then surround yourself with people that do amazing things. i used to be around the rough people who's only dreams was to have a nice truck and sleep with girls. loneliness, poverty and unhappiness is like the flu, if we are around it enough we will catch it. we have to free our selves from the bounds that weigh us down and learn to fly with the eagles. greatness enriches lives and encourages peoples ability to also be great. find the great people and you will discover the greatness inside you. I have found the great people and they have pushed me and lifted me.
  So do you want to be a scavenging crow or do you want to be a soaring Eagle...

THE RUN

Ok so yesterday i completed my first half marathon. This was not easy! the run was in St. goerge so me, Rach, Sarah and nayumi stayed with my cousin Dayna. we had to be at the high school at 7 to load on the buses. that night the last time i looked at the clock it was three thirty. i could not fall to sleep for the life of me! but when six o'clock rolled around i still got up excited and nervous. when we finally got loaded on the buses and headed to the top of snow canyon the ride toke forever and i thought the run would kill me i was so tired! but as we got ready to start the adrenalin kicked in and didn't kick out till about mill 8. at mile three i was going nuts and going way faster then i should of, probably thanks to two red bulls and a shot block. mile 7 i asked someone how long it had been which was 50 min. then i hit the wall! mile 8 my legs started to burn. mile 10 my legs were so sore it was hard to keep them moving. i went from a seven min pace to like a eleven min pace. mile 11 i was ready to start walking but i knew i would be outraged with myself so i kept that slow jog going. mile 12 my feet were about to fall off, then i seen the high school! everything went numb and i picked up the pace and finished the 13.1 miles in one hour forty seven min. It is amazing what we can do with will power. i thought about quiting a lot but i never wanted to! I can't wait to start training for the next one!

people hit

"sticks and stones will brake my bones but words will never hurt me" we were all told this when we were kids and to be honest i think we toke it to literal. have you ever been punched in the face?... it hurts. it hurts the next day and maybe even the next. but what we don't understand is that words also hurt! its because of one of gods greatest gifts that words hurt. emotion is one of the great things that make us human. and that's what we are, were all human, we all screw up. i have screwed up bad. BUT.... i have never woke up and thought to myself, today i am going to go talk about someone in hopes that it hurts them in some way. I swear some people do just that! sticks and stones may brake my bones, but words can last forever.

failure

have you ever just thought about the last time you failed at something?... what ever it was did you actually fail? was it a test, a race, a job, or maybe a relationship? but did you actually fail? the way i see it the only way to truly fail at something is to be in it one hundred percent. maybe that test you failed was not a failure, but something you didn't put on the line. you say you didn't have enough time to study but is that not just an excuse for its easier not to try then to fail. I am guilty of this! if you don't put your whole heart into something it don't hurt as bad when you don't succeed. now no one is perfect and everyone fails, but how we fail will determine who we are. Micheal Jorden played each game with all his heart, and with everything on the line. during his career he missed over 9000 shots, and lost almost 300 games. he was depended on to make 26 game winning shots that he missed. "i have failed over and over and over again during my life, and that is why i succeed."-Micheal Jordan
I believe God looks for great. greatness is not only success, greatness is triumph over adversity.
If you have ever watched the greatest movies ever you know where this quote is from.. "its not about how hard you can hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward!"-Rocky
Now no one should go looking to fail, but no one should be scared of it.

"if your going to do something do it well"

NOT just another day

today i woke up late. today i had no idea what could happen. today was an adventure!
I was on twitter checking out how others start there days. i came across a post from the Rock (dwayne johnson). he was at the U doing his thing! I thought that sounded awesome! i made me a big breakfast and headed out to the to my home made gym and got down to business. pumping iron, listening to killer music, and bringing the pain!
found out i will be back flying helicopters soon, bout dang time! any ways i headed to the library to hit the books for a awesome mental workout. Rach was also there which made it all the better! later sarah got me to go to family home evening, but we must of made a wrong turn because when we arrived they looked at us like we were crazy's!... good job sarah! but it turned out good, we went on a crazy awesome hike up to the S. with Indiana jones as our guide, and sarah's little smooth talking indian friend, it was freaking entertaining to say the least! me and sarah tried running the last fifty yards, which was only a valid attempt.  she thought she had me on the way down but winners don't lose and i toke the short cut!
then the highlight of the day. basketball with ben, sarah, and Rachael! I might have a few bruises to the neck and face tomorrow, but my heck can Rachael throw down! I can't wait to play a game on her side. these three are some of the very best friends i have ever had!
But that was my day, not just another day, but a good day!

moving forward

Sometimes to move forward we have to fall down a few times!...
   If it don't hurt, if you don't feel pain, if your content, if your comfortable, if you don't find yourself on your knees praying to god for help.... your not really living life!!! 

   FIND YOUR FIGHT!

Atonement

"To atone is to suffer" suffer.... Such a terrible and horrifying word, i know because i looked up suffer to find a image for this post. what i found was unspeakable! that's when i realized there was no image or way to explain what our father and his son went through. how amazing our brother was to be the only mortal man able to survive the atonement process. he suffered for all the sins of souls to walk this world. after looking up suffer and seeing just a small window of suffering, pain and sin i don't know how its possible for any person, man or god, to endure such horrific suffering. It truly blows my mind! and to ask something like this to your son! no father could watch his own son suffer without suffering himself. so why?...  It is because it was our greatest gift of all, the gift to one day return to our father and live with eternal life. no one is perfect, which is why the atonement came to be. It happened so each and everyone of us was given the chance to repent for our sins and follow the path to eternal life. I for one will use my free agency to cherish this gift, atone for my own sins and one day benefit from the atonement.

mans best friend

Lexy..

every man has one true best friend

a friend who always is happy to see him

no matter how long he is gone

no matter who he has been with

his best friend always wants to hang out

and never will leave his side

 there through the good times and the bad

they never talk during the movies 

and never wants the remote 

this best friend never complains

but always shows excitement

 always is there 

always wants love

always loves unconditionally

crazy stuipid love...

 since my first girlfriend in high school i have dated and dated going through one relationship after another, each one a little crazier then the last, and each one ending a little worse. until i was at the bottom of the bucket. then i met her, Rachael by far the most attractive girl i had ever met! beautiful, smart, tall, athletic and just a good person, by far someone way out of my league. the real problem though was that i was seeing her best friend Brittany. Now Brittany had just got out of a very serious relationship which at first i thought was a down fall. I soon found out that her bound with her ex would be the key to my happiness. it was the morning of my twenty third birthday and Brittany had asked me to hang out later that day. now at this time i already had a crush on Rachael and not knowing but she also liked me. back to my birthday, that afternoon i was informed Rachael would also be joining us that night. when the two girls arrived at my house we began talking and playing guitar hero. about ten min after they arrived Brittany turned to Rachael and said that her ex boyfriend was at her house and that being awkward for her family she should return home to talk to him. me and Rachael both found this weird, but reluctantly Rachael drove Brittany home. well a little upset i decided not to sit home alone on my birthday so i texted Rachael and we both met up to play basketball. this is about the time i really fell for her.she was so easy to talk and open up to that i couldn't help but feel a strong bound between us. the next night i confessed my feelings for her, she thanked me for being so forthright and also reviled her feelings to me. Rachael grow up in a very religious house hold and i knew in order to date this amazing girl i could not be the reckless person i had been. its only been  a few weeks now but things are better for me then they have been in years. sometimes its not just about the things you will do for a person but about the things you won't do for someone. i have done a lot of crazy things for girls but its the girls worth not doing crazy things for that are the ones really worth holding on too!

waiting

waiting in my room for a very special person to get home. Racheal is the most amazing girl i have ever dated. she sees right through the bullshit of who i use to be and sees the person i can become. at five eleven with blond hair and beautiful blue eyes and a body of a supermodel shes also the most beautiful girl i ever dated!  so here i sit alone in my room waiting and thinking about the most amazing girl to ever walk into my life. to those concerned... i don't mind waiting, i finally found someone worth waiting for.