This song was a strength to me since last summer, a big one. And then I forgot about it. I listen to it again now and it touches my heart yet again. It is by Kenneth Cope and it's called "Gethsemane". If you haven't heard it and would like to, let me know and maybe we can work a way out for me to get it to you.

My Lord Jesus
Me in heaven, You on earth
You're in the garden
And Your heavy burden is growing worse
I weep for You, Jesus

My poor Jesus
I'm so sorry to make You cry
But I'm far from like You
And all my sins, Lord, demand this price

I wish that I could come to You
And wipe away the blood
And then I'd bear Your cross, Lord
If I could
But I'm up here
And You're down there, Jesus

My poor Jesus
I'm so sorry to make You die
But, please, for me, Jesus
Die

Now Lord Jesus
You're in heaven and I'm on earth
Now it's my turn
And my little burden is getting worse
I weep for me, Jesus

Oh kind Jesus
I keep trying to win this fight
But I just can't change me
I need Your grace, Lord
Please provide

I wish that I could run to You
And all of this would end
If I could see Your face
Have You close again
But You're up there
And I'm down here, Oh Jesus

My Lord Jesus
If You've got time to spend with me tonight
Then fly to me, Jesus
Fly

I never realized how greatly I need the Atonement in my life until recently. Well, I understood in general that without it I would not be able to live in my Heavenly Father's presence. But I didn't understand how deep I needed to believe in this in order to get through this life. Unless I believe with everything I've got that Christ's Atonement can help me, save me, then I can not properly apply it to my life and live in happiness. Do I truly know Him? Love Him? When I pray, am I speaking to my Heavenly Father as if I truly and actually believe He is listening to me? And He's not just hearing me (which is a miracle in itself), but listening. He is nodding or shaking His head to me as I speak with Him. He is listening better than any friend I have. My Savior loves and cares for me, yet His power cannot help me unless I allow it. I am only what I allow the Lord to make me. You are only what you allow the Lord to make you. Please let Him. His hand will always be stretched out towards you. We are literally engraven upon His hands; he will not likely be forgetting us anytime soon.

I've been reading in 2nd Nephi in the Isaiah chapters, trying to understand what little I can. I came to a chapter in which is my new favorite chapter. Take a look at 2nd Nephi 22. It is the chapter about the Millennium when Christ will reign personally upon the earth as our King. How amazing will it be to be led by a perfect King? To see Him and talk with Him as our brother and ruler. Read that chapter. It describes what the righteous will be feeling during this time. How glorious of a chapter it is, of a time it will be! I pray for you all to be there and to feel that joy. I hope to be there myself with you, where we will live in perfect happiness. Can you imagine such a place?? Especially after living in the vulgarities of this world. Read 2 Nephi 22. You won't regret it!

Stay strong guys. This world seeks to destroy our testimonies, bring us down with it. Don't let it. Fight it. Fight with the Lord's power. I love you all. Until next time!

okay, so I AM alive

 Hey to anyone who still has this on their friend list!! Sorry about the.. years of not posting. I've been very sick and not able to post. But I plan on trying to get this page up and going again. I know the name is ldsquoteaday, but it's going to be more like ldsquotesaweek. haha sorry, but that's the best I can do right now. I hope you all have stayed as close to the Lord as possible these past months, but if you haven't, He is always right there waiting for you until you come back.

Okay so I'm ending for tonight, but next time I come back we'll start on the old routine again. Thank you to all who have been supportive of this site and asked if I was alive every once in a while!

Wow sorry it's been so long since I last updated!!! Bad internet connections and midterms were total catalysts!  But enough excuses from me, I have a great quote for you guys!!  Bear with me here, it's kind of long... but so incredibly great!  It's from the November 2000 Ensign, written by Elder Dallin H. Oaks.  Hope your Spirit is hungry for some serious great spiritual food! woo! Let's dive in!

  "That which I have I can easily give you, but that which I am you must obtain for yourself.  Follow my example, mastering as I have mastered, and you will become as I am, and all that I have will be yours.

     "Later, the Savior confirmed the importance of being converted, even for those with a testimony of the truth. In the sublime instructions given at the Last Supper, He told Simon Peter, “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren” (Luke 22:32).

     "In order to strengthen his brethren—to nourish and lead the flock of God—this man who had followed Jesus for three years, who had been given the authority of the holy apostleship, who had been a valiant teacher and testifier of the Christian gospel, and whose testimony had caused the Master to declare him blessed still had to be “converted.” Jesus’ challenge shows that the conversion He required for those who would enter the kingdom of heaven (see Matt. 18:3) was far more than just being converted to testify to the truthfulness of the gospel. To testify is to know and to declare. The gospel challenges us to be “converted,” which requires us to do and to become."

My Book of Mormon class recently talked about this article correlating with 3 Nephi when the Savior comes to the Americas and teaches the Nephites.  It seriously has made me think.. am I doing my best?  I have a testimony, but am I becoming someone like God?  I'm reading my scriptures, praying daily, and building my testimony.  But this isn't enough. 

Yes it is great to have a testimony!  But once that is achieved, we have to take steps further.  When I read the scriptures, I need to study them, every verse, and apply it to my life with the gospel.  I need to plead with the Lord everytime I pray to forgive for my daily sins so that I can be made perfect and no longer have any desire to sin.  I must pray to hate and be discusted by sin, because it is such a burden that can only bring me down.  I not only need to just know and declare the gospel, but I've got to do and become. 

To become like God is our ultimate goal right?  The pre-existence was a time to prepare for mortality (this life), and mortality is the time to prepare for the rest of all eternity!  That's a heavy thing to be decided for such a short time that we have life here on earth. We must become perfect even as Jesus Christ and our Father in Heaven is perfect.  We can't be perfect right off, but through a gradual state of trying our best.  Do the best you know how and you can be perfect.  God does the best the He knows how, so He expects only the same of us.  What's so great about having a knowledge of the gospel is that we know that as long as we are trying our best, there is no way we can fail, God will not let us.  There is no such thing as failure when you truly give it your all!  How many things in this world are seriously that dependable??  Oh how great it is to be a member of this church!  The older I get the more grateful I am that I was blessed to have a knowledge of the truth in my life. I hope you guys will embrace the Atonements for all of its elements and blessings.