This past weekend the Latter Day Saints branch at the Grand Canyon took a trip to the Phoenix temple. It was just supposed to be the young men and young women but it ended up being about 18 of us. And the branch only has about 35 regular members so pretty much about half of the Branch showed up and it was and exciting and very good day. Since to drive down there takes almost 3 hours we had a long talk with different people like the Branch President going there took us and then come back the Becca and Brady Harris brought us back so we had a long talk with all of them and it was very nice. I don't get to hang out with people very often because I rarely leave the house anymore but it was very fun and exciting I keep saying that.
Now when it comes to my disability I don't consider myself disabled. Because I can do anything you guys can do it'll just take me a bit longer. So I don't use my disability as a crutch or a excuse to get out of things. I know I can do it so I will find a way. Anyways there was a long stairwell in this temple and the elevator wasn't working and so that everyone is asking me if I needed help or if I wanted to I didn't have to and this stuff. Once I set my mind on something I do it and I was going down that big flight of stairs and everyone was worried that was up in fall or something but no Marty and Brady were there with me to make sure I didn't fall but I made it down the stairs and went to the baptismal font. And then it came time to my turn and I just did it you know like I said I don't try to make things difficult because I have disability I try to work through it and I did. And after we did the baptisms I was in so much awe and joy.
It was such a wonderful experience and feeling. I still consider myself a recent convert so let me state that there's a ton of misconceptions of what goes on in the temple. None of it is bad and none of it is satanic and it all glorifies God. This was my first temple trip and it was fantastic. Amber and I are working on being endowed and sealed together in the temple. And I cannot wait for that.
I realized I don't really talk about my religion that much. And it's because I grew up Pentecostal Christian and they're very anti-mormon. But there's a lot of misconceptions people have about us the LDS Church. And I just want people to know that we don't do anything different you know we worship God we worship Jesus Christ we believe in the Holy Spirit. The way I was taught growing up is Mormons do not believe in Jesus Christ and that they worship Joseph Smith as a god. This is false completely false our church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Says right there in the name we follow Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith was a prophet that is all. We believe he restored the Church unto the Earth by translating The Book of Mormon which is simply another Testament of Jesus Christ.
