So what learned about decide in my study's this week is you are constantly deciding to choose good or bad. If we choose good we can be happy :) but if we choose bad thand we have to go back and try again.   

The Lincoln Hypothesis

Here is my blog post on the Lincoln Hypothesis! If you guys didn't read that book for master, I recommend making it a summer read. :) 

Love you all! Have a great day!

PS. Also, that blog is the blog I use for all my A-Ha's as well. 

My VG Inspirement

Hey everyone (again! Am I getting annoying at all? :p)!

I'm not feeling extra creative this week. :p It's been a really long one!

So I just wrote another blog post! Here it is! :)

BTW, this is my blog for pretty much any Ah-hahs I get, or blog posts I do for Inspirements, so if you would like to subscribe to it, go ahead!

Love you all!!!

~ Gracious

My thoughts on Decide

Making decisions is kinda like making a choice except you can make decisions that make it so that you don't have to make choices later like deciding never to smoke or drink. You can also make decisions that will make you have to do bad things later. We should not make these kind of decisions it makes the spirit leave us and that is extremely bad. I hope that we can all make the right decisions this week concerning our school our media and our everyday life

Jared

Small choices can make a big difference

hmm how do I start this?

Decisions decisions......

when I first read the topic, I immediately thought to the talk entitled: A Matter of a Few Degrees by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. In this address he emphasizes the point of careful and well thought out decisions with a story where an airline is off by 2 degrees and consequently crashes into a volcano. Those 2 degrees made a world of difference in the end.

I like to compare this to our daily decisions, while some of our choices are black and white (very defined) others may not seem to make an impact and be kind of grayish. These grayish choices can greatly effect us in the end, just like the 2 degrees! In the moment it makes little or no difference but if you make that gray decision you have just brought yourself closer to another a little bit darker decision. And soon you are way off course! This can be illustrated with a decision tree:

Fred is at the beginning (the star), Fred is new in a group and he is introducing himself to them. lets say he has the choice of:

A: telling a little white lie to make him look better.

B: telling the plain old truth

now lets evaluate:

If he made choice A:

since he told something that is not true, he now has to lie whenever the story comes into question if he wants to keep the false status.

So now he has another choice:

1: keep the false status
2: tell the truth

now chances are he is going to choose 1 because he doesn't want to look bad and it is an easy choice. Telling the truth is hard and he has to back out of whatever lies he has told and he most assuredly is going to look bad. So he's probably going to end up telling another lie.

If Fred made choice B:

since he didn't lie he has no need to keep up any false status. And he has increased his self-esteem and character by saying no to lying.

Later on Fred is faced with another decision, this time more serious. Fred sees something in the lost and found that he really wants! But he knows it is not his. He also knows he can have it if he just lies to the clerk saying it was his.

Fred can make choice + or choice - which will he choose?

Well if we are talking about Fred A then he is going to know that he can pull it off and since he has been lying all the time it makes it easier. But really he is just conditioning himself to be okay with lying and stealing. And next time it will be easier to make the wrong choice.

However if we are talking about Fred B he is going to know that he turned down a lie once, so he can do it again. And he will know that the next time he is faced with a choice!

Do you see where this would lead? One decision, just like 2 degrees can make a huge difference.

So now your wondering How do we avoid this?

• Check Yourself! Whenever you are faced with a decision big or small make sure it is in line with your goal (whatever it might be)

• Counsel with God in all your doings (Alma 37:37)

• Be Humble and ready to receive Gods advice

if you make a wrong decision. Don't worry, that is what the atonement is for. Make a point not to make the same mistake and carry on.

God knows you better then you do, he knows whats best for you! I cant stress this enough. Always counsel with god in every decision. I bear my testimony that I know this to be true.

Decide to Want it!

So the reason I really like is Quote is because it's saying you NEED to DECIDE!

Decide to Want to Love!
Decide to Want to Never drink!
Decide to Want to be Happy!
Decide to Want to Always go to Church!
Decide to Want to live the Word of Wisdom!
Decide to Want to Never smoke!
Decide to Want to go to the Temple!
Decide to Want to Always be Honest!
Decide to Want to Serve!
Decide to Want to be an Example of Christ!
Decide to Want to...

BE LIKE CHRIST!

We can't be Afraid to...
-Love!
-Say, "No!" to a drink!
-Put a Smile:) on when we're down!
-Tell your friends you going to go to Church!
-Say, "No!" to things that aren't good for your  body!
-Say, "No!" to a cigarette!
-Say, "I'm going to the Temple!"
-Be Honest!
-Serve!
-Act Like Christ!
-And we can't be afraid to WALK IN HIS FOOT  STEPS!

Be PROUD of all of this! Be Proud that YOU can say, "NO!" to the Bad! And, "YES!!!!!!!!!!" to the Good!

Personally, I want to Walk in the Foot Steps of Christ! Do I have some work to do? HECK YES!!!!!! We all do! But, You CAN do it! If you DECIDE that you WANT to!

Thanks Everyone!

Love you ALL!
Ashley!:D

The Great Decision

Last night, I had a really amazing experience.

I posted last week about my horrible week. I was really not having an amazing time!

But last night... something happened, and I realized that the decision to follow really is the greatest decision anyone could make in their entire life.

Without God, what are we? Really, nothing!

I was imagining my life without God. And really, I do believe that is the dark tunnel!

I felt last week that I was following God, but, really, was I?

God never abandons us, and really, we only can find true happiness if we come unto Him! It is absolutely impossible to ever find happiness without Him! I think, this is what it was, I decided!

I chose not to see the light.

I felt that I was in a dark tunnel, and I did not know what to do, but I chose to not look at everything! That's why my week was so dreadful! I was refusing to see the good around me!

There were tone of lanterns floating all around, there was SO much that I chose not to see!



We have to look around with God's eyes. I realized last night that I really didn't want to be mine, I wanted to be completely His!

And that is what brings happiness!!!!

Everyone thinks that following "your passion" will bring you happiness.

But I have noticed that unless your passion is God, that happiness never comes!

It is not possible to be happy or perfect without Him. And I noticed that my unhappiness was all me!

Unhappiness doesn't come because I don't get everything that I want. Happiness comes from being grateful!

There is absolutely no way to be happy unless you are continually following God.

God will lead you to your passion. God will lead you to your happiness. God will lead you to where you need to be! You may think that is not where you want to be, but it is the path of true happiness!

I love you all, and I really, sincerely hope that you will remember to trust Him, for true happiness will never come if you don't.

Love,
Gracious

P.S. Sorry there aren't lots of pictures! :p I even think my own post is boring! :p There were just too many thoughts to put into pictures! ;)