Personal Progress

Blessings from being morally clean and having the Holy Ghost with you because of it. Teach us things Help us to remember things Gives us peace. Spirit of truth that will testify of Christ Speak with the tongue of angels. Show us the things which we should do Holy Spirit is our guide. Constant companion There are many great things that the spirit brings into our life. We are lost in a sense when we aren't worthy to have the spirit because He does not guide us. He cannot dwell in an unclean/unworthy body. I know I love when I feel the spirit in my life. And can't imagine being in a place where I don't have him in my life. One time I lost an envelope that had money orders in it for large amounts. I lost them in a canyon in the middle of the night, on a very windy night. When I realized they had fallen out of my purse I was devastated. I immediately knelt in prayer and felt a sense of peace wash over me. I wasn't told that I would find the money but I just knew i...

Blessings of agency. 2 nephi 2:13 makes some good points. If there were no happiness or righteousness there would be no punishment or misery and if that was the case then there would be no God and without God there would be earth or creation. We need opposition in life. We need the bitter so we can taste the sweet. It is for our learning. As we make choices we see the consequences for good or bad. We can learn to make choices that bring us happiness, that bring us closer to God. If there was no agency, we would not be able to act, to choose right or wrong. A choice would be made for us. That was the plan Satan had in mind. There was only the choice to choose right so that we would return to Heavenly Father, which first sounds good, but that would be a pretty boring life! And there would be no learning or growth and you would feel no emotions cause you wouldn't know what made you happy or sad.