Hey guys! I don't really have a cool story to tell about this week or anything like that but I did go on changes with the zone leaders this week so that was fun so here's a picture of me and elder suxo! But I would like to share a scripture with you all (I know so tacky missionary stuff) and I try not make this blog be a basic missionary blog but I feel like I should share this thought and I've been just wondering or I guess waiting for the right time to share this. This scripture is in Alma 26 verse 6 and 7 it talks about a group of people that were extremely wicked and then they all were converted unto the lord and when they became converted unto the lord the joy they felt from that was so strong that "they did lay down the weapons of their rebellion"  so like this group of people were always going to war and just wasting each other and just being really wicked, so they repented and put their weapons of rebellion away, but that didn't just mean they put their weapons of war away, they put their weapons of rebellion against God away! What are weapons of rebellion against God? Sins, and specifically what I want to talk about today are sins that are more of a habit, and how bad those can be. They are bad for a mountain of reasons! One being that they are sins and basically all sins will hurt us, not just spiritually but physically and emotionally! So we know sins are really bad for us all around! But what if we don't care about our health - I don't know why you wouldn't, but let's say for some reason you like your weapons of rebellion more than your 3 forms of health- are there other reasons to lay down your weapons? YES! Do you have a family? If so, then LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!! The people in this scripture are later called the Anti-Nefi-Lehis and they decided that they would rather be killed than to take up their weapons! Wow they had so much faith in the plan of salvation that they knew that it was better for them to die than to commit a sin because they loved their families and their lord more than they loved the temporal joys that come from living (now I'm not saying go die so you cant commit sins) but the dedication that they had to stay spiritually clean is very admirable! Now, why did they want to stay spiritually clean so badly? Because they want to be with their families more than they want to live, now if you have a family, especially little kids  PLEASE, PLEASE lay down your weapons of rebellion! I can not emphasize this enough! Because like I said earlier bad habits can be a really big "weapon" and habits are very contagious and little kids can pick up on those habits! So please if you don't care about yourself enough to lay down your weapons, lay them down for your kids! Because they are all you get to take with you to heaven! So, in conclusion, the cold hard truth is either your family or rebellion and let me say your sins won't be much comfort in eternity! Sorry if this seems I'm being kind of blunt and rude and maybe even aggressive I'm saying all of this with the most love possible because I know for a fact that this gospel is true and that our heavenly father loves us and wants to bless us but its not easy to bless us if we're rebelling against him!