Nieces

Here are my house, right now, this very day. Awesome days. I have 7 Nieces/Nephews living here. So of course comes with it (since this is Nana's house (Grandma)) comes toys. New things of splendor to catch the eye of the little ones so they don't end up being annoying all day long. It happens in every house hold... I wouldn't say annoying... ok I would. But not in a mean way. It's a cute annoying and you love it so much that you don't care it's slightly annoying. But moving on, we have this toy. It's a video game. A Smart Cycle as seen in this ---> pic. It's like a video game. It's pretty darn cool and if it wasn't so small i'd probably be riding it for exercise training or something cool. But if you look really close at the picture there is a small red joystick. Don't know why it's a JOYstick. Weee? But right below this "Joystick" closer to the little cute/annoying boy, are three buttons. These three bottons are as follow

- Green background with a little picture of a map

- Red background with a little picture of a hand like in the position of halt

- Blue background with a little picture of a book.

Well this story only involves the Blue button. Well it's a lot to explain for such a little thing. I really didn't have to tell about everything but you'll still read everything so HA HA. Moving on. I have two nieces who were playing on this bike playing this video game. They were "Learning". They were having "Fun". But as i sat and watch one would try to help the other with the game. It's was cute. If it were me it'd be cute/annoying/still freaking cute. But it wasn't. Now these two girls are cousins and the love each other as much as that can work. But at one point the girl who wasn't on the bike point to the Blue button and said "Press the Book of Mormon to get to... ect."

My brain stopped, I didn't hear anything else that was said except Book of Mormon. It was the coolest thing i have ever heard/seen/been in the same room with. It just made me so glad to know they are being taught and the first thing they think of is the Book of Mormon.

Another story while i'm here posting. While we were on vacation in Missouri/Illinois i had the opportunity to be in the same car with one of my nieces. We were just talking and counting trees and stuff when all of a sudden she bursts out with a phrase of "Jesus knows everything"

It reminds me of 3rd Nephi in The Book of Mormon when Jesus Christ has come down to the Nephites. He teaches them then at one point in Chapter 26 Verse 16 "...and they both saw and heard these children; yea, even babes did open their mouths and utter marvelous things;..." Also in Alma Chapter 32 Verse 23 "...words given to little children which confound the wise and learned..."

Little children are such a blessing and they are so close to God. We usually don't realize it cause people see them as "distractions", "annoying", "Waste of Time" and "Short People with nobody". They are far from that. They are amazing and cute. "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." (Article of Faith 13)

Take time to listen to a child. Take time to hear their words. Take time to love them. Try to teach them but in many cases they will teach you. The Book of Mormon is a Holy book of scripture that i know to be true. I have read it and have prayed about it and the Holy Spirit has witnessed to me that it is true. That the people in the book really lived. They learned like we do growing up and learned by raising children. Jesus does know everything and he lived for us because he loves us. Joseph Smith and many other men, including more women and children have died for The Book of Mormon. If they didn't know if was true themselves then they wouldn't of done that. Like what was said in Elder Hollands talk about the Book of Mormon.

" Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet turned to the guards who held him captive and bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon. Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators.

As one of a thousand elements of my own testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon, I submit this as yet one more evidence of its truthfulness. In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?

Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor. Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if notthe very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in anyreligious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.” " (Elder Holland Oct 2009 General Conference)

Think, a little girl knows what the book of Mormon is. She knows what the book of mormon is. "...words given to little children which confound the wise and learned..." (Alma Chapter 32 Verse 23)


Signing Out 
Matt