Finding OK in BrOKen: 3-Minute Blogs for Change

               I have experienced spiritual anguish, this is because of procrastinating the will of the Lord through mundane activities. By reading the talk of President Ezra Taft Benson this line really pricked my heart “Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his Church meetings.” Regret and guilt are inside me, if only I focused on the things that would benefit my soul and that would make my Father in Heaven happy, If only I pay attention to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit, if only I tried my very best to keep the commandments that the church has taught me maybe now I am already halfway of my mission. I can still remember how our branch president gave me probationary, I felt like I am just a shadow at the corner I cannot participate in the sacrament. I cannot change his decision, I need to face the consequences of my actions, I need to undergo the process of repentance, this way I will have a c...

               I believe in prophets and leaders and revelations they received, but sometimes I doubted them not only the leaders of higher ranking but also local leaders of the church. This doubt has led me not to trust some leaders of the church and at some point, it had affected me in doing my responsibilities as a member such as paying my tithes, fulfilling my callings, and my personal progress. It’s disappointing when you see leaders who are misled by their personal desire. Sometimes I even doubted if our church is a true church of Jesus Christ because of them.   I talk to one of my classmates in the institute about it and she said sometimes it is easier to see mistakes than good works. I sometimes tell people what she said, and I never told it to myself, hearing from a friend those words have galled me in a positive way, it is so strong. It came in my mind that we are not perfect, even the prophet is still only a human and it is ...

There are stages in life to undergo, and the most challenging stage is knowing and accepting ourselves. I've been at that stage where I am surrounded with my personal insecurities, such as my skin color how I wish to be whiter, my height I want to be taller, and I hate my voice the way I speak, it struggles me a lot, people always bully me of the way I speak because I really have that bad sound, they even belittle me of the things that I do and they ignore me and most of them are my relatives, it hurts me a lot they don't know that I am struggling. My confidence was affected a lot, including family problems it really affected me in meeting other people, also my studies. There are times that  I felt like I had no one to share my problems, my feelings, I am so scared to talk, to open up. I am thankful that I had friends during my college who have been there for me, they inspired me, motivated me and shared their time. Because of them, I felt a sense of belongingness, a...

Are you all set for the new year? Since I was a teenager, I always do new year’s resolution. And I have seen changes in my life every year, these changes happened intentionally and unintentionally. Intentionally because I work for that change and unintentionally because it just happened, and I cannot control any of it. Setting up a new year's resolution is so much fun, listing all you wanted to do for the next whole year, imagining all the fun and new things to have. It’s amazing! But reality always kick us out of our imagination, and our list of goals and plans will just remain a dream and will remain a new year’s resolution for next coming year and for the next year until you’ll be tired and just forget about it. Many of our goals don’t happen because maybe we are all doing it the wrong way or we’re setting up our new year’s resolution very broad or unattainable. This approaching new year, here are some tips in setting up your new year’s resolution; 1. LOO...

What is one step you can take to develop a growth mindset? The human mind is dynamic, sometimes we change our decisions and plans abruptly due to the influence of our surroundings and how strong are we to protect our own thoughts. It’s not bad if it’s for us to grow but most of the time we embrace wrong decisions in our lives that can cause us heartbreaks. This is commonly happening for the youth nowadays, my generation. Because our hearts and minds are fragile, young, and easily persuaded. Once that we are broken, it can be a loss of soul.  Just a few of the youth nowadays who can understand pains as a challenge for growth because the happenings in the world itself are too much for them to carry. In a world full of negative vibrations there is hope. All you need to do is to find it and have it within you. Having hope is the key to a growth mindset. But where to find it? Where to get it? And who can help?   For some people learning is easy because they have a gro...

What counts more-- hard work or talent? In the spirit world, God made us different. He gave us different abilities, talents, and character for us to do our own role that can distinguish us from one another. These God-given features in our premortal life were being washed out when we entered the veil of forgetfulness. So, we came here in our mortal life naked and innocent. But God designs this code of life which scientists called DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid, this is a molecule carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth, and reproduction of all known organisms. DNA is a God’s molecule that connects us from our premortal life, we cannot remember who we are before, but it is already in our DNA who we can become here on earth. None of us is left behind, all of us have given equal opportunity and capabilities for us to live here on earth. God designed us different from each other and the evidence is our DNA, this is for us to function well filling each ot...

What are the three things people can do to start changing bad habits? Today's era, people are well engaged in technology. Some use it on business, education, news, and in different fields. But most people just use it for gaming, social media, and even pornography which is a very bad habit that consumes most of their time. Changing this kind of habit is a challenge but I believe that through hard work and perseverance you can stop it. Changing bad habits is not just one snap, you need to put a lot of effort. If you want to change your habit first thing that you should do is to identify your routine. You should make a list of your activities every day, on how many hours you spend on each activity. I’m so sure by doing this you can see wasted time just for your gaming and social media. Next to that, you should make an ideal daily routine, put specific time for every activity that you plan to do every day. It is better to make it as a checklist, print it, then display in a p...

Sometimes we wonder if God really exists, we always question His existence in times of our trials that we always say, ‘if there is God why I am suffering all of this agony in my life’. Brothers and sisters, I testify that there is God. Look around you, you can see many beautiful things, in the land, in the water, and in the sky. What a beautiful creation, right? And everything of these is perfectly designed by God. Think about the galaxy, the constellation of stars, and how perfectly our planet earth designed. All we have is theory on how these planets were created, and no one can prove that the universe's existence has naturally occurred. Like the great things we made here on earth, we designed something, we create something because we have this God-given knowledge to put something into existence. Our activities here on earth are enough to prove that there is only one God, who designed, planned and put all the living and all great things into existence. Our Heavenl...

Sometimes we are being idealistic about life; we set standards and limitations without rationalizing that we are living in an imperfect world. Is it not enough that we are living in this world knowing what is right and wrong? Probably some will answer yes! Because they knew what’s happening in this world and they are living in reality with an open mind. But some would say no! And these people are those who are living with their sacred religion and these people are those who see things ideally, they preach about things ideally they teach things that we don’t even know it exists, these are the reason why people believe in something that is fantasy, causing them to set their standards and expectations towards people or towards things that might happen and if these set standards are not met they are disappointed blaming others or blaming themselves and later on they will be comforted by their crap fellow members on their congregation that it’s okay don’t loss hope there is always tomo...

I know this topic is very familiar to you but I hope I can impart something that will touch your heart… Adam, the first man on earth was baptized, also Alma in the book of Mormon and Jesus needed to be baptized even He never sinned. Why? It is because baptism serves as a key to live with heavenly father in the Celestial Kingdom.  Almost all of us here undergone on the process of Baptism, during this moment of our lives we made a promised to heavenly father that we will remember and follow Jesus and keep all of his commandments. Our heavenly father loves us so much that whenever we make a promise to him, He makes a promise right back to us that He will forgive us for all our mistakes as long as we will get on our knees and repent. He also promises that we can have the gift of the Holy Ghost and that we can obtain eternal life someday. In short, this promises between us and heavenly father is called COVENANT. Today brother, you are being covenanted to God, you’re willi...

As a Filipino it’s a part of our tradition to love one another. We see proofs through the system of our lifestyle; we are fanned of having an extended family which shows how we love,care, and how important our relatives are and we also have that Bayanihan system, where we can feel the spirit of Camaraderie from one another. At this moment of time, I will be talking about Love specifically loving one another. So what is Love? Everyone has its own definition of this four-lettered word and we based in our experiences and through the knowledge that we have.  Some of us are telling that love is a pain, and that’s true, as latter day saints we believe that things should have oppositions so that we will be able to fulfill its essence, so thus, pain is a part of loving and living.       Look at the pictures; on here we can see how our Lord Jesus Christ suffered because of loving us. It was stated in the book of Luke 22:44 that our Lord Jesus Christ took upon...

What would you feel if the world sees you in a distinct way? Some of you may take it positively but how if they see you whom a person does not deserve to accompany and to be treated respectfully, what would you do? Bullying and Discrimination are now a vast and uncontrollable crime in our world's new era. History to present these are happening, wherein, in our history women are being discriminated by men through treating them just women of their lives, for pleasures and power. And also people with special disabilities are not just being bullied or discriminated but they are being condemned to die. In this new era, the lawmaking bodies proclaimed a law stating the right of every individual to avoid discrimination and bullying against one another but then the implementation of these laws is not that strong. From now, people are freely discriminating and bullying someone through their gender (especially the LGBTQ+ community), physical disabilities, and status in life, religi...

Photography is not just taking pictures for the purpose of recreation or to have something we post on our social media accounts. As PicsArt implies ”Picture is Art” an art that a photographer can create from any genre, still life, street photography, documentary, landscape, nude, portrait, using a particular style–point of view, choice of lens, type of lighting, color or black and white for deeper purposes. The world is being polluted by photographs, as we surf the internet we see a different kinds of pictures for different purposes. Some are for the advertisement of any services and products, some are just for fun- sharing pictures of what they do every day, sharing pictures showing their cool body and it is a fact that they use also photographs to kill someone’s image, bullying and to blackmail, and for porn. I believe that there is a deeper essence of having photography in our lives, I believe that Heavenly Father gave us this for the purpose of sharing the beauty of li...

September 23, I worked with the missionaries to share the Gospel with my best friend's family, the experience is so good… while the elders are teaching, my best friend's mom asked a question that really caught my feelings and attention, the question goes like exactly the title of this article.  I really see and feel the interest of this mother to attend the church with her whole family and how I wish that my parents have also this kind of mindset. While they are discussing I was just smiling and thinking deeply for an answer to that question and it came to my knowledge that I must be the one or the tool so that my family will attend the church with me. My family status is complicated I don’t even know if we are family, I said that because I define family as a group of people who are living together progressively with love, respect, humility, and spiritually. So this is indeed a big challenge for me, I am just a teenager and the third child of the family but here I am tryi...

A teacher is terrific Magnificent and an extraordinary one A teacher is energetic They teach vigorously and expressive A teacher is able To cope with any matter Things let them down sometimes But they never are sour A teacher is cheerful They’re full of good spirit A teacher is powerful They change their student's mindset A teacher is diligent They are working hard In teaching their student To enlighten their mind Teachers deal with things enthusiastically They are teaching excitingly For the students to learn eagerly To deal with things easily A teacher is remarkable Into the students part They are always humble They always choose the right!