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To be disciples of Christ and to tell the world about Him. Now, I don't know your background or who you are, but that does not diminish our faith in Christ as we join our efforts to make this world a better place! So follow my blog and please share your input and thoughts. I want this to be a Spiritual exprience as we follow Christ and His teachings!
Tomorrow will be a day of thanks giving. I love this day it is one day we focus on the things God has given us i am great full for my family my friends the gospel and my loving Heavenly father how has given me much. We should be great full for so much i know i am. I am on a mission serving my God how has given me much. There is so much to be great full for. I wish i was with my family enjoying them but i will soon see them again.
Family's are what make my life so great i love them so much.
I am truly great full for my family!
3 Nephi 3 And it came to pass that while they were thus conversing one with another, they heard a voice as if it came out of heaven; and they cast their eyes round about, for they understood not the voice which they heard; and it was not a harsh voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn.
4 And it came to pass that again they heard the voice, and they understood it not.
5 And again the third time they did hear the voice, and did open their ears to hear it; and their eyes were towards the sound thereof; and they did look steadfastly towards heaven, from whence the sound came.
6 And behold, the third time they did understand the voice which they heard; and it said unto them:
7 Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name—hear ye him.
Do we know our father in heaven and his Son Jesus Christ?
When you fell the Spirit testify to you that God is our Eternal Father in Heaven and that Jesus is the Christ his beloved son. DO YOU REALLY KNOW HIM. How Meany times dose the spirit have to testify to you that the Book of Mormon is true. The first time or 3 times for you to Really know with your Heart with a deep and abounding testimony that it is true.
This is my hope my desire that we truly study the Book of Mormon and REALLY KNOW THAT THIS BOOK IS TRUE! If you don't then pray to him and Really Study it.
Moroni 10:3
Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
Just as Moroni i invite you to read it be a truth seeker and REALLY KNOW that the Book of Mormon is true. I testify that it is and has brought me close to Christ.
Open your heart and fell the soft promptings of the Holy Ghost testify to you that the book of Mormon is TRUE.
Jesus Christ is for me you everyone with out him we are nothing. Kari Jobe is just a great inspiration we need Jesus Christ Atonement
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is available to each of us. His Atonement is infinite. It applies to everyone, even you. It can clean, reclaim, and sanctify even you. That is what infinite means—total, complete, all, We need him so much let his love take you in his infinite love. Jesus Christ love for us is too much for me to even think about. I love this Gospel and this Work i am a Missionary for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints. i do his work i proclaim his glory Jesus Christ to all that will come and follow him. If you want to learn more about his Church go to
www.Mormon.org or www.lds.org or if you want a free copy of the Book of Mormon go to this site
http://mormon.org/free-book-of-mormon The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ we invite all to read it and ask god if it is true i promises you that the Spirit well tell you it is true. I know it is and it has changed my life i ask plead all to get a free copy and read it.
With all the political eyes on the Church About how we are. We are Mormon's but the Church is called after Christ name. We are the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. We take the name of Christ this is Jesus Christ Church! How are we not Christian If we take the name of Christ in HIS Church. Here is what i think the baptist that said we are a COLT! dose not understand where we come from are how we are. If he took the time to read the Book of Mormon and understand that it testifyes of Chirst. The Book of Mormon dose not take away from the Bibel it testifyes it adds to the same witness of Jesus Christ and how he was.
We are here in this world together as one not to fight not to say hey we are right you are wroung well that is just what he did when he called us a colt. We are hear to help others we are all in this this Together the Atonement of Jesus Christ we know and always will testify of him.
I so praise Him for the glorious and great Atonement and ask Him to bless all of us that we personally will claim, and in our ministries will help people claim, the blessings of that great Atonement, won at so great a cost. Indeed, “there was no other good enough to pay the price”
How am I? What do i want to become? What is my purpose? We all think these we all wounder. The world say's popularity money nice things. I think a lot on my life what i have done and how i am now. Now was i popular NO did i have money NO nice things NO! the world thinks you have to have all this great things to be happy NO YOU DO NOT! you dont need lots of money and popular and nice stuff to be happy to have fun. We have our purpose we know why we are here To return to our hevenly father. He gave us life he mabe the plan for us to retuern by Jesus Christ comeing down to pay for our sins and our mistakes.
Alma 7:11-12
11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.
Jesus Christ took all our pain and hard time trials so we can learn and grow i love him for what he did and the atoning sacrafice he gave us all lean on him when your not strong. I know sometimes i have to lean on someone when i am about to give up the lord is on our side. So dont let that fath fall when you have jesus Christ with you.
52 And he also said unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me, and hearken unto my voice, and believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized, even in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given under heaven, whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men, ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in his name, and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you.
Turn to God he can heel the broken hart by the holy Ghost we can be heeled of our pains these things are true i know with all my hart that they are true look to God with love and he will bless you!
One thing i love to do when i am home in Idaho is Mountain bike." I LOVE IT " So much that picture of that bike you see is the one i have at home. Iron Horse great bike when your on big mountain going up hill you just want to stop and take a rest your so tired you don't want to go any more i know i get that way sometimes. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is just like Mountain biking to follow Jesus Christ and follow the commandments it is not easy it is hard and God made it that way. Your life is not easy you always have Satan tempting you trying to bump you of that mountain. But the Gospel of Jesus Christ helps you to stay safe to follow the commandments and to make it to the top of the Mountain . Yeah we have Trials and hard times in life God did not say job your life is going to be hard and tough he did not say job life is going to be easy....No you going to have the good times and the hard times if it was not for the Trials in life we would not learn it is true when i have hard times i look to God for help and for comfort. Joseph Smith had a hard trial in his life.
D&C:3:7
3 Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with compassion toward them?
4 O Lord God Almighty, maker of heaven, earth, and seas, and of all things that in them are, and who controllest and subjectest the devil, and the dark and benighted dominion of Sheol—stretch forth thy hand; let thine eye pierce; let thy pavilion be taken up; let thy hiding place no longer be covered; let thine ear be inclined; let thine heart be softened, and thy bowels moved with compassion toward us.
5 Let thineanger be kindled against our enemies; and, in the fury of thine heart, with thy swordavenge us of our wrongs.
6 Remember thy suffering saints, O our God; and thy servants will rejoice in thy name forever.
7 My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment
He has his trails he got tard and fetherd he was in jail but he mabe it up that mountain and now he lives with God. There is that happensse knowing i mabe it up that big mountain the beautifull skys on top of the mountian if we ender and keep tracking up that mountain we can live with God forever!
SO keep working to the top never looking back we can live our lifes like Jesus Christ and strive to be the best. You Dont just get good at football in one day you work at it over life the same is like the gospel of Jesus Christ By your Works you shall know. Keep Pushing to the top never stop pushing!
And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.
We must follow God's Commandment if we do he will bless us!
Gabe understands how important it is to have his family come first he loves his wife and children and that is what the gospel is all about. In the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints we are all about family's. That is so important in this life i don't know what i would do with out my family i love them so much! Enjoy this video about Gabe and his family.
I think sometimes we think we can't do this or can't do that but in reality we can. We are how we want to became we can climb the highest mountain. God has given us some great things in this life to over come the trails in our life's. We can progress and become like Jesus Christ have the Love Charity Humility of Jesus Christ.
How do we do this great thing to become like Jesus Christ?
We must learn to tune our life's always turning towards God and Jesus Christ Learning feasting upon the word of Christ. So how do we tune our life's like this High performance Lexus.
Well it is the little things that matter today as me and my comp where talking about how it is the little things matter. Daily we need to be reading and praying looking towards God. Everyone has there trails and hardships we need to be tuning our life's with God. I know that your day and your week will be in a high performance happy mode as this great car is in the high life always tune in and oil daily and you too can have a great day so be happy and love the way your life is. Always filling your lamp with oil and the gears in your spirit and you can have a high performance spirituality day!
D&C 84:45-47
45 For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth islight, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
46 And the Spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit.
47 And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spiritcometh unto God, even the Father.
So come unto God and Jesus Christ and have that Spirit with you always and you can have a great day you should take 10 min or more to study the word of god and then see your day just be so much better. SO HAVE A GREAT DAY!
How Joseph Smith Restored the church back in to its fullness.
Joseph Smith-History
11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.
13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture.
14 So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to prayvocally.
15 After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself adelivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My BelovedSon. Hear Him!
Joseph Smith saw God And his son Jesus Christ they did apper to him and told him they have a great work for him to do and he was to restore the true church here on the earth, and antchent recored and it would be called the Book of Mormon.
He restored the Athority to Baptisd and to heel the sick and bless others by the laying of hands!
This is Gods work!
Moses 1:39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternallife of man.
God knows us all he loves his children that is why he restored his gospel back to day we have the truth.
And we need to have the Faith in God and his son Jesus Christ if we have the Faith we will have eternal life.
I have a testimony of this Church it is true God restored it back to us he loves us all and wants us to come back to him.
I ask all to read the Book of Mormon what is it going to hurt get a copie and read it for your self.
And see what millions of others know. That it is true and that you can find that out for you self. Pray and ask God and i know you will get your answer that it is true if you do it what a faith in christ and a true seeker of Christ he will mantifest it to you.
The Rising of the Book of Mormon i know any one how reads this book will know that it is true and ask god the Eternal father in the name of Christ will know that it is true. God loves his children that is why he gave us this book to testify of his son Jesus Christ to add to the wittiness just as the Bible dose. And to know that Joseph Smith was Gods prophet and to know that we have the truths that so much look for this is his church.
Moroni 10:3-5
3Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
1. you need a sincere heart
2.real intent wanting to know
3. having faith that God will answer
I have a testimony of the Book of Mormon and the truth fullness of it I know God lives and we have prophets here to day to guide and lead the Lords church to day. I know this is his church he is still guiding his church to the righteous path back to him i love my Lord and Savior so much. I testify of him and i say this in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Hevenly father sent his son Jesus Christ for us he loves us so much. Jesus Christ did so much for others his charity and love for everyone is what we all want to become. He set that example for us on how we can be like him this video shows us how Jesus Christ is that example.
Charity is that love that Christ had for us all, If we give service to others we give that charity that christ had for us. Love one another Christ said as i have loved you we can all learn from this saying.
I love this song by David Cook my favorite song ever Called Permanent. He talks about his brother Adam Cook. He had Brain Cancer for 11 years and died May 2, 2009.
"Will you think that you're all alone when no one's there to hold you're hand?"
I know all the Trials I have been through, and all hard times I have had. I know that my family has been there. To hold my hand in these hard times. These Trials we go through are hard, but possible to over come by our Heavenly Father, He loves his children. He is so willing to help you in these trials. He knows they are going to happen, but He loves us so much He sent His beloved son Jesus Christ to Atone for these Trials and pain and afflictions.
Alma 11:10-11
10Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world.
11And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning.
Jesus Christ has suffered all to help us and God knew we would have these hard times. That is why He sent His son Jesus Christ. God is there to hold your hands, and so is Jesus Christ. They are there to lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feebleknees. I personality have felt His love when I need Him, He has always been there when I need Him the most. Just when I am about to let go and fall, He is there to pick me up, dust me off, and guide me back on track. We are not perfect but Christ is, that is why God sent Him to show us that example, and to help us. When you feel like your going to fall, don't lose that hope and faith. Let Jesus Christ in your life and see the change He brings.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
When I was 14, my feet were not right. I was walking on my tippy toes and could not walk flat footed. I had to have two intense surgery's, wear a cast for 6 months twice, and then learn how to walk again. I had to have crutches in middle school and I was home schooled for six months. I had to wear braces in which the doctor said I had to wear my whole life. That is what the doctor said that has 40+ years of experience. I knew the power of prayer and the power God has. When I got on my knees and said a prayer to my Heavenly Father, I asked if somehow, someway, I didn't have to wear these braces my whole life. I remember praying for like 20 minutes, just asking if somehow it is possible that I can remove these braces for the rest of my life. As I was done with my prayer, I just sat there listening to the whisperings of the Holy Ghost. 5 minutes later, I sat there, just thinking, and then I felt something......something peaceful came over me. The Spirit of the Lord told me everything will work out and not to worry. I knew at that time, my prayer was answered, and I knew it was true. I knew I could not deny it for it was the Spirit of the Lord that told me so. I knew that the Spirit does not lie. As soon as I was 100% positive, I rushed to my dad and I said, "Dad, I don't need these braces anymore. The doctor is going to tell me I can take them off for the rest of my life." Well, my dad said, "No, Taylor no, the doctor said you will have these on your feet for the rest of your life." I said, "No Dad, I know the doctor will say to take them off. You don't need them anymore." My dad, being an all wise father, he said, "No Taylor, you will have those on for the rest of your life. That is what the doctor said." I just said, "OK, we will see what the doctor says." I still did not believe what my father said to me. Being only 14 at the time, I knew I could not convince my dad and I also knew what the Spirit of the Lord told me. So, I had a check up on my feet at the hospital a couple months later. Let me remind you, this hospital specializes in feet. Very nice one we looked for a hospital that could do this for my feet. For 8 or so months we looked for a hospital and could now fix my feet. I know it was by God we found this one in Utah, who would have thought that Utah would have one this amazing. So we get to the doctors and the he says to me, "Take you braces off and let me see your feet." So he looks at my feet and I still to this day have stitch marks across my feet and up my leg and they are still tender. The reason the doctor put me on these braces is because when people have this problem it will go back to the way it was. So the braces keep it from going back to the way it was. After I walk around the room the doctor says after 40+ years of me being a doctor I have never told any of my patients they can take the braces off for the rest of there lives. SO HE SAID TAKE THEM OFF, YOU DON'T NEED THEM ANY MORE. I was so HAPPY!!!! Knowing that I did not need them any more, and that time my dad did believe me. It took a lot of Faith to believe and trust the Spirit and God. Trust me it would of been easy for me to say, "OK dad your right, there is no way", but I knew the power that God had. I knew then what I know now, that there is a God and He loves you more then you could ever now. I put my trust in Him and He blessed me more then ever. God dose live, I know he does. If it was not for the power of God letting me take off my braces I would not be able to ride dirt bikes or play sports or do things that I love. That is the love God has for all his children. That is the love He has for you, me, and everyone. He wants you to come to Him so don't forget to kneel and pray to our Heavenly Father.
Why has Boise State been the top team in the nation? Is it becuse of the coching and plays and defence. Yes that is part of the resone they have destroyed teams over the years. The resone is the QB! every Team needs a QB how nows how to play the game make the calls get that game winning drive. Kellen Moore for the boise state football team nows how to do this his pocket passing is big he fells the prusher when it comes, he can run away from that but he is as accurate as any one in the country. So what dose a QB and a Prophet have in commen
Well let me tell you a Prophet talkes to God and tells us what god wants us to do and follow the commandments we cant make it with out a Prophets help. Just like a QB he need his head couch to help him and offensive coordinator to tell him the play call and what he needs for his team to win the game. We to are in a game it is the game of life we are on Gods side and we want to make it to big time the BCS football game or back to god in Heaven the Prophet dose the same.
I am a huge football fan and the Boise State Vs Virgina Tech game is kind of like the Gospel. If you Endure to the End, great things happen. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. That is what this life is all about. Living our lives as our Heavenly Father wants us to live them. I know if we live life to the best and try to do all that we can to follow Jesus Christ, then joy, love and peace will come in your life.
My sister singing Hallelujah song it brings so much joy in my life as i here here sing this song. SO enjoy this song and fell the peace it brings in your life.
We as members of the Church Of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, WE Believe In Christ. We know he is and will be the savior of the world. We love him and we love God the Father. We know that general conference brings us closer to him. Our Heavenly Father has given us these Prophets and Apostles to help us become closer to Jesus Christ. We believe that threw divine revelation, we can became closer to God. He has given us this earth. He has all the power in the world to teach you through the Holy Ghost. God really is there. He loves you more than you ever know. Jesus Christ lives today. His influence is more real than ever in this day because these are the latter days. The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is close, but no man knows the time or the day he will come, but the prophets have told us these are the last days. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR HIS COMING! DON'T LET YOURSELF BE LOST IN THE WORLD OF THINGS THAT HAVE NO ETERNAL PURPOSE! THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE CAN DO TO START OUR JOURNEY TO HIM AND PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST:
1. Read the scriptures, especially The Bible and the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Read it and learn of it.
2. Pray to your God
17Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your afaith unto repentance, that ye begin to bcall upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
18Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is amighty to save.
19Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in aprayer unto him.
20Cry unto him when ye are in your afields, yea, over all your flocks.
21aCry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both morning, mid-day, and evening.
22Yea, cry unto him against the power of your aenemies.
24Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye may prosper in them.
25Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may increase.
26But this is not all; ye must apour out your souls in your bclosets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.
Alma 34:17-26
3 Church is something that everyone needs to grow in the Gospel and grow by the Spirit. When you are baptized, you make promises with your Heavenly Father. When you are baptized, you are given the Spirit to guide you. In church, the sacrament is to renew the promises you made with God in baptism.
I know He is there to help us grow and learn. If you follow the 3 steps I have given, you will start the journey back to him. Don't give up! Always study, go to Church, pray, and follow the commandments. If you do, you will become closer to our Heavenly Father.
He died for us throw the pain and temptations he went throw. We can return to him threw the atonement of Jesus Christ
Book Of Mormon Alma 7:11-14
11And he shall go forth, suffering pains and aafflictions and btemptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will ctake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12And he will take upon him adeath, that he may bloose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to csuccor his people according to their infirmities.
13Now the Spirit aknoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the bflesh that he might ctake upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.
14Now I say unto you that ye must arepent, and be born again; for the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye may be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse from all unrighteousness.............................. I love this scripture as it talks about Jesus Christ and what he went throw to help us. I know he lives and he loves you and our Heavenly father dose to so pray to him he wants to talk to you iknow if you have the faith and love and really talk with god he will lesson i know he will. Go to him with your problems he will answer you prays i know he has with me. I have gone throw a lot in my life a lot of in and out of hospitals. I know that my prayers have been answerd i am now abel to walk flat footed and live a normal life. I know by the grace of god i am here on a mission shareing with the world about Jesus Christ. I love him so much i hope you go to him i know he can bless your life i am thank full for his grace and mearcy in my life.