I guess you could say my purpose is to make the world a better, more happy place, through living and sharing gospel principles I find both in the church and everywhere else.

I will attempt to do that by sharing my personal experiences and learning in a hope that someone may benifit from it.

However I cannot fully express or share the joy I feel and what it is that I truly know and have come to “get.” I can only merely share small portions of the light and truth that I have received in an attempt to help others who are humble to just nibble, bit by bit until they can obtain that fearlessness—pure joy—that comes only through Jesus Christ and His Atonement.

I live by the worlds of Paul the Apostle: “perfect love casteth out all fear.”

But it hasn’t always been that way. You know how many times in my life I asked the question: “Why is that person so happy, and I’m not?” Too many to count. I asked that all the time. “I know the principles of the gospel, so why aren’t I happy?”

Well the answer was right under my nose, the whole time. I just didn’t “get it.” It was the difference between knowing something and understanding something, understanding and applying, and even further, applying and actually “getting it.” Getting why I am applying it, rather than just applying it because I am supposed to. Once I went from knowing to “getting it” that’s when I actually became a happy person. “Became” not just happy once in a while, doing happy things, or looking happy even though deep down inside, I’m miserable. I actually am happy all of the time.  That doesn’t mean I never feel sorrow, grief, stress, or anger. It just means that I know the purpose of those things now, and so I don’t let them take over.

It took me longer to get it than others. And why did it take me so long to get it? Well that’s easy; pride. Pride blinds, stops progression and hardens the heart in the most subtle of ways. But as soon as my heart was soft enough, the Lord enlightened my understanding, He gave me light. Then some more light, line upon line, precept upon precept. But I had to be humble first. And I had to apply what I learned.

So for my reader, if I could just offer once piece of advice, it would be that if perfect love is the gate, and no fear is the mansion, then the key that unlocks the gate that allows entrance into the mansion is humility.

No person by word alone can convert someone. Conversion comes by the Spirit of God. Humility and Faith in Christ and His Atonement allows us to feel that perfect love, and then allows us to obtain that fearlessness. It has to come from within you, you have to sincerely want it, and seek it out. Search, ponder, and pray. It’s really just between you and God.